I have a configurable product which is available in many different colors and sizes. I want the configurable product to appear once for every color. My idea is to assign one simple product of the configurable product in every color to the category of the configurable product. Then I want to change the listing, so that the (colored) simple product links to it's master product (the configurable one).

The other way would be, to just assign the configurable product to a category and then list it multiple times with different colors. But I think this would be to complicated.