Christian Koller

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Christian Koller (born September 2, 1971 in Zurich ) is a Swiss historian and director of the Swiss Social Archives .

Life

Christian Koller graduated from the Stadelhofen high school in 1990 and then studied general history, economics and political science at the University of Zurich . In 1996 he obtained the licentiate and in 1998 the diploma for the higher teaching post. From 1996 to 1998 he taught at various grammar schools, at the same time he was a research assistant and lecturer at the University of Zurich in 1997/98. In 1998 he did his doctorate under Jörg Fisch with a thesis on European perceptions of African and Asian colonial soldiers in the early 20th century. From 1998 to 2007, Koller was a senior executive assistant and lecturer at the History Department of the University of Zurich. In 2003 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on the conceptual history of “ foreign rule ”. Since 2007 he has headed various SNSF projects.

In 2007, Koller was appointed Senior Lecturer at Bangor University (Wales) and was promoted to Reader in 2013 . At the same time, he continued to teach as a private lecturer at the University of Zurich. There he was appointed adjunct professor in 2011 . Koller has been director of the Swiss Social Archives in Zurich since 2014 . Koller also taught at the Universities of Bern and Basel , at the FernUni Switzerland and at the University of Applied Sciences in Chur .

Koller is Vice-President of the Association of Swiss Sports History, a member of the board of the Swiss Music Archives Association and a member of numerous professional associations and has participated in several international research networks. From 2003 to 2017 he was a board member of the Military History Working Group . In 2016 he was appointed a member of the commission of the Swiss National Library by the Swiss Federal Council . Since 2018 he has been co-editor of the series War in History at Ferdinand Schöningh .

Koller's teaching and research focus on the history of nationalism and racism , historical semantics , the history of sports , social movements , industrial relations , the history of violence and the military , the history of intercultural contacts , the history of migration , self-testimony , urban history and cultures of remembrance, as well as selected questions of information science .

Awards

Fonts (selection)

Books

  • "Massacred by savages of all races". The discussion about the use of colonial troops in Europe between racism, colonial and military policy (1914–1930) (= contributions to colonial and overseas history. Vol. 82). Steiner, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-515-07765-0 .
  • with Fabian Brändle: Goal! Cultural and social history of modern football. Orell Füssli, Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-280-02815-9 .
    • Translation: Goal! A Cultural and Social History of Modern Football. The Catholic University of America Press, Washington DC 2015, ISBN 978-0-8132-2727-6 .
  • Foreign rule. A political battle term in the age of nationalism. Campus, Frankfurt am Main u. a. 2005, ISBN 3-593-37863-9 .
  • (Ed.) Sport as an urban event (= city ​​in history. Vol. 33). Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2008, ISBN 978-3-7995-6433-5 .
  • (Ed.) Great moments of Swiss football (= history of football. Vol. 2). Lit, Münster u. a. 2008, ISBN 978-3-8258-0936-2 .
  • Strike culture. Performances and discourses of the labor dispute in a Swiss-Austrian comparison (1860–1950) (= Österreichische Kulturforschung. Vol. 9). Lit, Münster u. a. 2009, ISBN 978-3-643-50007-6 .
  • Racism (= UTB profile ). Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn a. a. 2009, ISBN 978-3-8252-3246-7 .
  • Edited with Fabian Brändle: Football between the wars. Europe 1918–1939 (= history of football. Vol. 5). Lit, Münster u. a. 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-90049-4 .
  • Edited with Wulf D. Hund and Moshe Zimmermann : Racisms made in Germany (= Yearbook Racism Analysis. Vol. 2). Lit, Vienna a. a. 2011, ISBN 978-3-643-90125-5 .
  • The Foreign Legion . Colonialism, Mercenaryism, Violence, 1831–1962. Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn a. a. 2013, ISBN 978-3-506-77563-4 .
  • with Fabian Brändle: 4 to 2. The golden age of Swiss football 1918–1939. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-7307-0090-7 .
  • Edited with Michael Jucker, Daniel Krämer, Marc Gigase and Yan Potin: Mass, Markets and Power in the History of Sports (= Traverse . Vol. 23/1). Chronos, Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-905315-67-7 .
  • Edited with Roman Rossfeld and Brigitte Studer: Der Landesstreik. Switzerland in November 1918 . Hier + Jetzt, Baden 2018, ISBN 978-3039194438 .
  • Edited with Matthias Marschik : The Hungarian Soviet Republic 1919. Inside views, outside perspectives, consequences . Promedia Verlag, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3853714461 .
  • Edited with Thomas Busset and Michael Jucker: Sports history in Switzerland. Status and prospects - Histoire du sport en Suisse. état des lieux et perspectives (= Réflexions sportives , Vol. 10). Edition CIES, Neuchâtel 2019, ISBN 978-2-940241-29-3 .
  • Edited with Erich Keller, Gianenrico Bernasconi and Jan-Friedrich Missfelder: Pop: The Soundtrack of Contemporary History - Pop. La bande-son de l'histoire contemporaine (= Traverse . Vol. 26/2). Chronos, Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-905315-77-6 .
  • Edited with Raymond Naef: Chronicler of Social Switzerland. Photographs by Ernst Koehli 1933–1953 . Hier + Jetzt, Baden 2019, ISBN 978-3-03919-488-9 .

Contributions to edited volumes

  • War, the experience of foreignness and masculinity. Alterity and Identity in Field Post Letters from Indian Soldiers of the First World War. In: Marguérite Bos, Bettina Vincenz, Tanja Wirz (eds.): Experience. Is it all just discourse? On the use of the concept of experience in gender history. Chronos, Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-0340-0591-1 , pp. 117–128.
  • The national body exhibited. Sport at the Swiss national exhibition in 1939. In: Georg Kreis (Hrsg.): Remembering and processing. About Switzerland in the years 1933–1945 (= Itinera. No. 25). Schwabe, Basel 2004, ISBN 3-7965-2073-1 , pp. 89–117.
  • A working class civilization mission? The discussion about a "socialist colonial policy" before the First World War. In: Boris Barth , Jürgen Osterhammel (ed.): Civilizing Missions: Imperial World Improvement since the 18th Century (= Historical Cultural Studies. Vol. 6). Universitätsverlag, Konstanz 2005, ISBN 3-89669-709-9 , pp. 229–243.
  • Demonstrating in Zurich between 1830 and 1940 - From Bourgeois Protest to Proletarian Street Politics. In: Matthias Reiss (Ed.): The Street as Stage. Protest Marches and Public Rallies since the Nineteenth Century. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-922678-8 , pp. 191-211.
  • War or peace profiteers? The Swiss Industrial Society Neuhausen, 1910–1925. In: Roman Rossfeld, Tobias Straumann (Hrsg.): The forgotten economic war. Swiss company in the First World War. Chronos, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-0340-0882-2 , pp. 225-257.
  • Representing Otherness. African, Indian, and European soldiers' letters and memoirs. In: Santanu Das (Ed.): Race, Empire and First World War Writing. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2011, ISBN 978-0-511-97365-9 , pp. 127-142.
  • Feminine, proletarian, Czech. Perspectives and problems of intersectional analysis in historical studies using the example of the Viennese textile workers' strike of 1893. In: Sabine Hess, Nikola Langreiter, Elisabeth Timm (eds.): Intersectionality Revisited. Empirical, theoretical and methodological explorations. Transcript, Bielefeld 2011, ISBN 978-3-8376-1437-4 , pp. 175-198.
  • Sex as a transcultural event? Sexualities in the French Foreign Legion and their Representations in Autobiographical Writing. In: Sebastian Jobs, Gesa Mackenthun (Ed.): Embodiments of Cultural Encounters (= Cultural Encounters and the Discourses of Scholarship. Vol. 3). Waxmann, Münster 2011, ISBN 978-3-8309-2548-4 , pp. 75-92.
  • "The highly organized sporting life of an ant heap". Soviet sport in the British press, 1917 to 1991. In: Anke Hilbrenner, Dittmar Dahlmann (ed.): “This comparison is incomparable”. On the history of sport in the 20th century. Klartext, Essen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8375-0841-3 , pp. 235-264.
  • Social movements. Emotion and solidarity. In: Heike Stadtland, Jürgen Mittag (ed.): Theoretical approaches and concepts of research on social movements in historical studies (= publications by the Institute for Social Movements. Series A, Vol. 47). Klartext, Essen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8375-0505-4 , pp. 403-422.
  • Authenticity and history culture. Soldier self-testimonies of the "border occupation 1914/18" as polyvalent carriers of memory. In: Konrad J. Kuhn, Béatrice Ziegler (ed.): The forgotten war. Traces and traditions of Switzerland in the First World War. Hier + Jetzt, Baden 2014, ISBN 978-3-03919-316-5 , pp. 99–114.

items

  • "Savages" in "civilized" wars. Outlines of a forgotten international law debate of the colonial era. In: Journal for Modern Legal History . Vol. 23, 2001, pp. 30-50.
  • Work and Gender in Early Socialist Concepts of the Future. In: Quarterly for social and economic history . Vol. 90, 2003, pp. 141-156.
  • The honor of the nation. Reflections on a Core Element of Political Culture in the 19th Century. In: Saeculum . Vol. 54, 2003, pp. 87-121.
  • Sports, party politics and national defense. The disputes over subsidizing Swiss workers' sport in the interwar period. In: SportZeiten. Vol. 3, No. 2, 2003, pp. 31-71.
  • The iron Curtain". On the genesis of a central political metaphor in the Cold War era. In: Journal of History . Vol. 54, No. 4, 2006, pp. 366-384.
  • Football and immigration in Switzerland. Preservation of identity, assimilation or transculturality? In: Stadium . Vol. 34 (2008), pp. 261-284.
  • Local Strikes as Transnational Events. Migration, Donations, and Organizational Cooperation in the Context of Strikes in Switzerland (1860–1914). In: Labor History Review. Vol. 74, No. 3, 2009, pp. 305-318.
  • "It is to cry for". Emotional historical approaches to the cultural history of the strike. In: History and Society . Vol. 36, No. 1, 2010, pp. 66-92.
  • A king and three dictators. Professional football and "totalitarianism" in the interwar period. In: Stadium. Vol. 37, 2011, pp. 259-283.
  • Sport, Urbanity and Communal Socialism. The Case of "Red Zurich" (1928–1949). In: International Journal of the History of Sport. Vol. 29, No. 14, 2012, pp. 2013-2029.
  • Criminal romantics in exotic hell. On the transnational medialization of the French Foreign Legion. In: Saeculum. Vol. 63, No. 2, 2012, pp. 247-265.
  • Glencoe 1692. A massacre as a complex place of remembrance. In: Historical magazine . Vol. 296, No. 1, 2013, pp. 1–28.
  • Canadians, Commerce and Communism. The Röstigraben in Swiss ice hockey as a cultural and historical prism of the post-war period. In: Swiss History Journal . Vol. 66, No. 1, 2016, pp. 31-48.
  • "The captain rules on a ship, not a councilor" - the debate on codetermination after the Swiss national strike. In: Swiss History Journal . Vol. 69, No. 1, 2019, pp. 49-72.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Zimmerer: Wild Propaganda. In: FAZ.net . October 5, 2001, accessed December 17, 2014 .
  2. ^ Christian Koller: Foreign rule. A political battle term in the age of nationalism, Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2005. Brandenburg State Center for Political Education, archived from the original on October 8, 2007 ; accessed on January 11, 2015 .
  3. ^ Website of the Swiss National Science Foundation .
  4. ↑ Personnel: The Swiss Social Archives under new management. In: nzz.ch. June 25, 2014, accessed December 17, 2014 . .
  5. ^ Website of the Swiss Music Archives .
  6. ↑ Ausserparlamentarische commissions [1] .
  7. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from February 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nb.admin.ch


personal data
SURNAME Koller, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd September 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich