Modified Stereotypes
Russia and the Annexation of the Crimea in Caricatures
Deutsche Fassung
Abstract
Cartoons about Russia’s annexation of Crimea in the German daily newspapers Süddeutsche Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and Tagesspiegel present a differentiated image of Russia. On the one hand, they cannot do without historical stereotypes. Sometimes, they are bound by the logic of the East-West conflict. On the other hand, the cartoonists work with means that employ irony to break the very Russian threat they depict.
(Osteuropa 3/2016, pp. 139–147)