Karikaturen als Aushandlungsraum der Innen- und Außenpolitik Lettlands 1918-1934
Cartoons as Sphere of Negotiation of Latvia’s Domestic and Foreign Policy 1918-1934

Summary/Abstract: Growing overall interest in visual sources both from social sciences and humanities has resulted also in research on cartoons across a range of fields including art history, communication science, history and others. In recent years several aspects of Latvian press cartoons have been studied. The aim of the article is to outline the potential of the political cartoon as a historical source using the examples of several cartoons from periodicals dating from the democratic period (1918-1934) of the Republic of Latvia. During the democratic period there were not only different satirical magazines but also daily newspapers that contained published cartoons, and even well-known Latvian artists worked as cartoonists―among them Rihards Zariņš, Jānis Roberts Tillbergs, Romans Suta, Aleksandra Beļcova and others. A Significant number of the cartoons in periodicals―dealing with both domestic and international politics―offer material for further discussions on the use of cartoons as well as the role of the cartoonist and the newspaper in political communication.

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