Development of a commemorative concept for the history of the German Colonial School

Main research areas:
Environmental history, social movements, culture of remembrance, experiences of transformation, history of the German colonial school

Scientific publications (selection):

Monograph
"First the forest dies, then you!" The dying of the forest as a West German political issue 1978-1986, Frankfurt/Main - New York 2015.

Editorships
Focus on colonialism and agriculture. Zeitschrift für Agrargeschichte und Agrarsoziologie 69th vol. 2 (2021) (with Johann Kirchinger).
Mission Ecologie : convergences et divergences entre l'Allemagne et la France des années 1970 à nos jours, Brussel-Bern 2018 (with Olivier Hanse and Annette Lensing).
Ecological modernization. Zur Geschichte und Gegenwart eines Konzepts in Umweltpolitik und Sozialwissenschaften, Frankfurt/Main - New York 2014 (with Martin Bemmann and Roderich von Detten).

Journal and book contributions
The border region as a threat or resource? From a research project on the experiences of deindustrialization from a Franco-German-Luxembourgish perspective (1960-2020), in: Daniela Braun, Ulla Connor, Kristina Höfer (eds.): Border regions as laboratories of European research, Baden-Baden 2025, pp.71-91.

The year 1920 as a place of remembrance? Between global-historical forgetting and national self-assurance, in: What does the "Saarhundert" mean? AK Beiträge 3 (2020), pp. 94-105 (with Jörg Jacoby).

"Make our planet great again"? Or: Thinking globally, acting across borders - On the history of the environmental movement from a Franco-German perspective, in: Dietmar Hüser/Hans-Christian Hermann (eds.): Macrons neues Frankreich. La nouvelle France de Macron. Hintergründe, Reformansätze und deutsch-französische Perspektiven (Yearbook of the Center for French Studies at Saarland University, Volume 17, 2019/2020), Bielefeld 2020, pp. 181-210.

Environmental Movement in the Countryside: Revolutionary Dreams and the Normality of Rural Initiatives, in: Lu Seegers (ed.): 1968. Gesellschaftliche Nachwirkungen auf dem Lande, Göttingen 2020, pp. 183-210.

More than just Fashionable Concepts? Risk, Security and Resilience in Modern History. International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity, 7 (2019), pp. 301-320 (DOI: 10.18352/hcm.514) (with Amerigo Caruso).

Eco-Pacifism: The Environmental Movement as a Source for the Peace Movement, in: Martin Klimke et al. (eds.): The Nuclear Crisis: Arms Race, Atomic Anxiety, and the German Peace Movement of the 1980s, New York-Oxford 2016, pp. 171-197 (with Silke Mende).

Scholarly dispute or grand consensus? - Das Waldsterben, die Wissenschaft und die Medien, in: Peter Weingart (ed.): Zum Verhältnis von Wissenschaft, Öffentlichkeit und Medien, Wiesbaden 2014, pp. 223-257 (with Roland Wagner).