Nationale Gründungsmythen und ihre postfaktische Metamorphose in der aktuellen Kriegspropaganda
Von Gerald Dagit | This article examines how national founding myths are being transformed into post-factual narratives in the war against Ukraine. It focuses on an art photography taken in 2023 by French artist Émeric Lhuisset, which visually reinterprets Ilya Repin’s iconic painting Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, thereby projecting a centuries-old tradition of resistance into the present. Together with the cultural Ukrainian figures Taras Shevchenko and Mykhailo
Hrushevsky, it becomes clear that myths not only touch on deep layers of memory politics but also become strategic resources in the current media war. The essay shows that new forms of symbolic interpretive authority are establishing themselves in the interplay of art, historical politics, and propaganda.