Abstract
This contribution traces the long shadow cast by the anniversary of the assassination of the Austrian crown prince Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914 in the region itself. This shadow was not, however, created by local actors, but by foreign politicians, diplomats and historians. The theses of British historian Christopher Clark, argued in his work “The Sleepwalkers”, were greeted with particular controversy by his colleagues and were also subjected to heated discussion among the official representatives of Serbia. It becomes apparent that the depiction and remembrance of the events were respectively used and instrumentalised in the contemporary political, artistic and social discourses in Serbia as well as Bosnia and Herzegovina, and by nationalists as well as non-nationalists, culminating not least in a stylisation of assassin Gavrilo Princip into a popular icon of rebellion.
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