Resumen

HAUSBERGER, Bernd. Pancho Villa in the publications of the German-speaking world between the wars. Relac. Estud. hist. soc. [online]. 2023, vol.44, n.173, pp.113-144.  Epub 25-Ago-2023. ISSN 2448-7554.  https://doi.org/10.24901/rehs.v44i173.949.

Internationally, Pancho Villa is possibly the best-known character in Mexican history of all times. He received considerable media attention at the time and became an early movie hero. The essay attempts to reconstruct and contextualize the Pancho Villa phenomenon in the German-speaking print media in the interwar years. Due to the notable continuities -and gradual transformations- that are observed, the analysis begins with a look at the years of the armed revolution and the First World War and ends with an epilogue on the first National Socialist years. To begin with, the essay offers a quantitative perspective to give the argument a more solid foundation. In the following section, which attempts a qualitative analysis, it can be shown that the publications tended to interpret the revolution, on the one hand, as an Indian uprising and, on the other, insisted on the dependence of Mexican development on US politics. The figure of Pancho Villa was originally treated as a barbaric bandit without much political relevance, but finally, with the support of Hollywood, in 1934 he became the bearer of a fictional legend.

Palabras llave : History; Mexican Revolution; Pancho Villa; representation; German print media.

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