BUCH: Die "Kaukasische Post". Karl August Fischer. Sammlung Georg Lieibbrandt. Band 10. Leipzig. 1944. 1 / 279

Quellen und Materialen zur Erforschung des Deutschtums in Osteuropa im Auftrag herausgegeben E. Meynen

Entsprechend dem Charakter der Sammlung Georg Leibbrandt als einer Materialiensammlung soll die vorliegende Arbeit über die „Kaukasische Post“ Stoff darbieten einmal zur Geschichte der rußlanddeutschen Presse und ferner zur Geschichte der kaukasischen Deutschen. Die „Kaukasische Post“ erschien als einzige deutsche Zeitung des Kaukasus in Tiflis in den Jahren 1906—1914 und 1918—1922. Die äußeren und inneren Schicksale der Zeitung sollen erzählt werden an Hand der Zeitung selbst und auf Grund von Aufzeichnungen, Briefen und persönlichen Erinnerungeij, der Inhalt der Zeitung soll gesichtet und als Quelle vornehmlich für die Geschichte der kaukasischen Deutschen gewürdigt werden.

Link: Die "Kaukasische Post". Karl August Fischer. [pdf]

LITERATUR: Giwi Margwelaschwili - Grenzgänger in den Real- und Buchwelten im Literarischen Salon Ekke Maaß in Berlin

am 05. Oktober | 20 Uhr mit:

* Giwi live per skype und einem Interview aus dem Jahre 2017 (6 Minuten)
* Stephan Wackwitz: Eure Freiheit, Unsere Freiheit - Was wir von Osteuropa lernen können
* Prof. Carsten Gansel, Universität Gießen: Leben im Ontotext - Vorschlag Giwi Marwelschwilis für den Literaturnobelpreis
* Ekkehard Maaß: Muzal, Kapitän Wakusch, Der ungeworfene Handschuh, Die Medea von Kolchis in Kolchos - Werkschau und Lesung

Foto: Ralph Hälbig (2009)

Giwi ist ein waschechter Berliner und deutscher Autor. Er ist mit mehr als 40 dicken Bänden ein Mont Everest unter den Leuten seiner Zunft und der größte Denker, der mir begegnete. 1927 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf als Sohn georgischer Emigranten geboren, überlebte er Hitlerei und Krieg mit dem Swing. 1946 mit seinem Vater vom NKWD in den sowjetischen Sektor entführt, verbrachte er zwei Jahre in den sowjetischen Speziallagern Hohenschönhausen und Sachsenhausen, dann wurde er nach Georgien verschleppt. Von der Ermordung seines Vaters erfuhr er erst 1989.

Das Thema seiner Romane und Erzählungen ist die theoretische Verallgemeinerung seines Lebens in zwei totalitären Gesellschaften: dem Nationalsozialismus und der kommunistischen Diktatur in der Sowjetunion, die Ost-West-Konfrontation im Kalten Krieg und die Erforschung des textweltlichen Seins des Menschen. Seine Maxime „Stoppt den tödlichen Text!“ lehrt an den Schicksalen von Buchpersonen den Widerstand gegen die gefährlichen monothematischen Weltanschauungen und ist hoch aktuell.

Giwis Bücher erschienen nach seiner Rückkehr nach Deutschland u. a. im Suhrkamp Verlag und seit 2007 im Berliner Verbrecher Verlag.

Literarischer Salon Ekke Maaß | Deutsch-Kaukasische Gesellschaft
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Mail: d-k-g@gmx.net | Internet: www.d-k-g.de | www.giwi-margwelaschwili.de | www.ekkemaass.de

KONZERTE: Junge Musiker aus Armenien in Bad Hersfeld

KAMMERTON - Junge Musiker aus Armenien

Elen Harutyunyan (Klavier), Eduard Elbakyan (Saxophon), Margarita Mikaelyan (Klavier), Arevik Melkonyan (Violine)

Werke u.A. von Liszt, Ravel, Chopin, Babadschanjan, Rachmaninow, Tschaikowski, Komitas

Samstag, 28. September 2019 – 15.30
Sonntag, 29. September 2019 – 16.30

J.S. Bach-Haus (Nachtigallenstrasse 7), Bad Hersfeld
Eintritt: ja 10,-€, Schüler und Studenten: 50% Ermäßigung
Mit freundlicher Unterstützung vom Goethe-Institut und dem Auswärtigen Amt

HISTORY OF GEORGIA: Summary in English of the Book - Georgien zwischen Eigenstaatlichkeit und russischer Okkupation Die Wurzeln des Konflikts vom 18. Jh. bis 1924. Von Philipp Ammon

here is a content of the book: "Where lie the roots for the alienation between Russia and Georgia, two countries of the same Chalcedonian Creed, whose links go back to the early Middle Ages? Georgian influences can already be seen in the Glagolitic alphabet (9th century) and the Nestor Chronicle (12th century). The Russian longing for the Georgian paradise garden, the Vyrïj-sad, where birds migrate every year to spend the winter, is just as old. "Indeed, we began to believe that most Russians hope that if they live good and virtuos lives, they will not go to heaven, but to Georgia, when they die," writes John Steinbeck in the Russian Journal in 1948. After the fall of Constantinople, for the Georgians "the sun began to rise in the north", as the poet Mamuk´a Barat´ašvili puts it, but the Georgians missed the secularization of the "holy Rus´", which is no longer guided by the belief in an eschatalogical mission but by the reason of state. This misunderstanding causes an alienation and a tragedy that lasts until today.

To provide an answer to his questions the author investigates the history of Georgia from ancient times beginning with the genesis of Georgian statehood. He limns the Christianisation of the country, its early ties to Byzantium, its blood witness of faith amongst foreign empires, the rise of the Bagratid kingdom and its prime during the Golden Age from the reign of David the Builder (1073– 1125) and Tamar the Great (1160 –1213) until its decline due to the Mongol conquests of the 13th century. He then qualifies the cultural transfer from Georgia to Russia during the Middle Ages. He delineates the Georgian kings´ requests for military aid to the Tsardom of Muscovy from 1483 after the downturn of Byzantine protecting power. He then characterises the Treaty of Georgievsk of 1783 between Catherine II the Great of Russia and Irakli II of Georgia as crucial to the conflict as in 1795 promised Russian troops stayed away from the Battle of Krtsanisi when the Qajar khan Agha Mohammad Shah attempted to reinforce Iranian overlordship upon Eastern Georgia. Thus the Georgians felt betrayed by their Russian ally. The period following the annexation of Georgia in 1801 is described as ambivalent as the ensuing modernisation of the land, its demographic and economic growth went with the abolition of the Bagratid dynasty and the autocephaly of the Georgian Apostolic Church and Russification in contradiction to the Treaty of 1783. Those measures of the new administration give rise to frequent peasant revolts and to the aristocratic conspiracy of 1832. On the other hand Georgian nobles – plus russe que les Russes – rise to the top in Russian ranks whereas despite their commitment to the mission civilisatrice russe Russian poets imagine the Caucasus and its Georgian heartland as a paradise lost. Unlike their Romantic fathers national movement Georgia´s generation of the sons, the tergdaleulni, returning from Russian universities is striving for feasable improvements for their countrymen. Their national movement is broader in its aims. They found a society to spread literacy among commoners and a bank to save the estates of the landed gentry. In the Revolution of 1905 Gurian peasants form a self-governed social-democratic local republic and in 1907 the “uncrowned king of Georgia” and leader of the country´s national movement Ilya Chavchavadze is killed by Georgian bolsheviks. On the eve of World War I the very existence of Georgia is in danger when Transcaucasia at risk to be settled by Russian peasants and Cossacks and the Georgian Exarchate is threatened to be dissolved into a Caucasian metropolis. During the Great War Georgian emigrants get in close contact with the German comand that is to promote Georgian indepence after the October Revolution. This independent Republic of Georgia persists after the military collapse of the Central Powers until in 1921 the Red Army led by Georgian bolsheviks invades the country. In 1924 a last insurgency for independence is crushed by overwhelming forces of the new Soviet government. Despite occupation and terror Soviet Georgia witnesses the establishment of national institutions as schools, colleges, universities and an academy as well as the development of governmental structures. Georgia´s secession from the Soviet Union in 1991 was payed with the loss of two provinces and those frozen conflicts stepped into war with Russia in 2008. At present no substantial enhancement of the relationship between Russia and Georgia let alone an agreement with her lost provinces is apparent." (Philipp Ammon)

You can order the book here: lehmanns.de

VIDEO: Georgia: Rugby's Next Superpower | Episode One & Two | World Rugby Films. via @worldrugby

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"World Rugby, the international governing body of the game, has released the first episode of Georgia: Rugby's Next Superpower, a documentary series tracing the nation's "meteoric" rise to prominence on the international rugby stage.

Released on Monday, the film follows the explosion of popularity of the sport in the country and the emergence of its national team and organisation "from obscurity to prominence in just over a decade".

Taking Georgia's Rugby World Cup debut in 2003 as the starting point, the first episode of the documentary series then goes back to the origins of the sport in the country, introducing viewers to leloburti, a similar game that served as historical background to rugby on the local scene.

Claude Saurel, the team's former head coach who led the Lelos' rise on the international stage in the late 1990s and the early 2000s, is seen speaking in the episode about the team's debut in the World Cup against England, as well as their praiseworthy performance against South Africa in the same tournament.

Milton Haig, Georgia's current head coach, also offers his impressions on why rugby has suited the Georgian sports mentality, citing combative spirit as a background on which the success has been based.

The film also travels to Georgia to speak to local team founders, governing body professionals and sports historians to hear about foundations of professional rugby in Soviet Georgia.

Producers of the episode also talk to people like Mamuka Gorgodze, a former player and an exceptionally popular figure for fans in the country, about the introduction of Georgian players into the French national league under Saurel, which laid foundations for the fast-paced development of Georgian rugby." (Source: agenda.ge)

VIDEO: Ancient Rugby Tradition in Georgia named LELO Ball - Lelos Shemobruneba (1984)

"Lelos Shemobruneba" is the Documentary film about the tradition of playing Lelo in Georgia. Georgians are preparing whole year to play Lelo for the Easter day in the Shukhuti village. Ball making process is very sacred. The number of players isn't limited. All the people are divided into two groups and all of them are willing to score a Lelo, which is the Georgian synonym of try. After the match, the winner should place the ball on the grave of a glorious person from his village. 

VIDEOS: Stalin’s Underground Secret Printing House Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia. #ReiseKnowHowGeorgien

The secret room where early Bolsheviks cranked out propaganda fliers on a smuggled printing press.

A nondescript, crumbling house in Georgia’s capital hides a series of tunnels where in 1904, a young communist printed magazines, pamphlets, and newspapers calling for the removal of the Tsar. At the time, Georgia was still part of the Russian Empire, and that young communist went by his given name, Iosif Djugashvili. The world would later come to know him as Joseph Stalin.

Hidden beneath the house, a printing press—old even by the standards of 1906—was smuggled into Tbilisi in pieces by a network of Bolshevik supporters. For three years, the press clandestinely cranked out thousands of pamphlets written in Georgian, Russian, and Armenian.

On the porch, lookouts—mostly women—would ring a bell if police were passing the house, a signal to those below silence the noisy press. A series of tunnels led from the from subterranean room to a nearby well, an escape route in anticipation of raids by Russian officials.

By the time Stalin began working at the printing press, he was already robbing banks and running protection rackets to raise money to support the Bolsheviks. Some of that money went toward printing and distributing the materials from the press around the region.

In 1906, three years after it printed its first pamphlet, the press was destroyed when the underground room was discovered.

Thirty-one years later, Stalin had consolidated power in what had become the USSR. Under his government, the press was restored and the building turned into a museum that included a movie theatre that screened Soviet films. But in 1991, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the museum was abandoned.

Today, the museum is operated by the Communist Party of Georgia, but it receives no money from the state. The printing press is caked in rust and the museum itself is largely in disrepair. But in recent years, the story of Stalin’s printing press has found a new audience: Chinese tourists.

Know Before You Go

The printing press is located within the Georgian Communist Party headquarters. You will need to speak at least a basic level of Russian or Georgian (or bring your own translator), as it is only possible to visit the "museum" by guided tour. While there is no official entrance fee, whomever shows you around will also expect a tip at the end of your visit.

Source: Stalin’s Underground Printing House [atlasobscura.com]

More links:
Indulge your Soviet curiosity in Stalin’s secret printing house in Tbilisi, Georgia. By Angelo Zinna [matadornetwork.com]
Joseph Stalins Underground Printing House [edfedoradiary.com]
Georgia’s Communists, With Chinese Help, Fight to Preserve Stalin’s Press. By Bradley Jardine [eurasianet.org]
Stalin’s Cave Beneath the capital of Georgia, a tyrant’s legacy slumbers. By Paul Salopek [nationalgeographic.org]
Stalin's Underground Printiung Press [latitudewattitude.com]
Inside Stalin's Secret Print House in Tbilisi, Georgia. By Angelo Zinna [medium.com]
Tbilisi’s Bolshevikian Word Fabrique. By Irma Kakhurashvili [georgiatosee.com]
Uncle Joe’s Underground Printshop. [derwombat.net]


Stalin's Underground Printing House – Feel the spirit of Soviet Georgia. By Anano Chikhradze

The period of the Soviet Union has already passed a long time ago. However, people are still interested in stories of this time. Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, Kamo… they are all the famous people who left their marks on history. You can find several places in Georgia, where you can recall the Soviet Union times. For example, the Stalin Museum, that is located in Gori. There you can see his private things and listen to the stories about the way he lived there. In addition to that, there are many other interesting places connected to him. In this article, I am going to tell you about Stalin's Underground Printing House Museum, where you can still feel the spirit of Soviet Georgia.

A story of the Printing House

The Printing House is located in the Avlabari district in Tbilisi. You can travel thanks to the "time machine" while visiting this museum and go back to the time when young revolutionary Stalin lived and worked.

The construction process of this Printing House was arranged by Mr Mikheil Bochoridze. He chose a suitable area in the Avlabari district. Mr Rostomashvili owned the land in this place. He was a worker in the workshops of the railway. After Mr Bochoridze and Mr Rostomashvili got a consent on the construction, they started building an illegal underground Printing House below the building. In a short period of time, they built a house that had only two rooms. In the years 1904-05, the Printing House started working.

There were 15-meter deep underground tunnels as well. From 1904-06, Stalin was secretly printing different newspapers and brochures in Georgian, Russian, and Azerbaijan language, and the revolutionaries were spreading them in these countries. 24-year-old Stalin escaped from the resettlement and started living in this Printing House from 1904. Many articles published here are actually written by Stalin, and that is why nowadays the Printing House is connected to his name.

How they discovered the Printing House?

The location of the Printing House was secret. However, in 1906, the police accidentally found it while they were checking the building. One of the police officers threw a burning paper in the dry water well to check its depth. A tunnel that was leading to the Printing House was at the bottom of this well, so this paper flew in the tunnel. A police officer realized that there was something under the building. They burned the house and the owner Mr Rostomashvili was sent into exile forever.

Underground Printing House today

Nowadays, you can see the same building in the Avlabari district. The Georgians reconstructed this place. They tried to keep its first appearance. The Printing House has many visitors today. People are interested in how this place worked, what were its secrets, etc. So, if you are a history lover, don’t miss the Stalin’s Underground Printing House Museum, where you can really feel the spirit of Soviet Georgia.

Source: Stalin's Underground Printing House – Feel the spirit of Soviet Georgia. By Anano Chikhradze [itinari.com]


These are a few images from inside the odd Joseph Stalin Underground Printing House Museum. It's like a real time warp into the Soviet past. And Zhuli the guide still believes. This video was made to accompany a more extensive essay which can be found at The Anadromous Life.

Source: Georgian Lessons #7: The Red Stain [theanadromist.wordpress.com]

VIDEO: Das Armenische Volk ist uralt. Der zähe Überlebenskampf eines Landes. Interview mit Dr. Jasmine Dum-Tragut. via @dctp_tv

Über mehrere tausend Jahre kämpft und lebt eine frühe christliche Zivilisation zwischen wechselnden Großmächten im Osten und Westen und verteidigt seine Existenz: Armenien. Das Land, dessen genaue Grenzen wechselten, war bereits der Zankapfel zwischen den Parthern und dem Römischen Reich. Später bedrohen mongolische und islamische Reiche im Osten das Land. Und im 20. Jahrhundert steht die Türkei im Westen des armenischen Kernlandes. Die Massaker der von der damaligen türkischen Führung im Ersten Weltkrieg angestrebten ethnischen Säuberung sind bekannt. 

Video: dctp.tv/Das Armenische Volk ist uralt

Die kulturellen und zivilisatorischen Wurzeln Armeniens liegen lange vor der christlichen Zeitenwende. Wenig bekannt ist, dass zeitgleich mit der Gründung der ersten europäischen Universitäten um 1180 Wissenschaftszentren und Universitäten in Armenien begründet wurden. Mit den Kreuzzügen sind die Armenier eng verknüpft. In Armenien besteht eine autokephale Kirche und ein armenischer Mönch entwickelt ein eigenes Alphabet für das Land. In den Zeiten des osmanischen Siegs über Ost-Rom und verstärkt seit dem 18. Jahrhundert entstand weltweit eine armenische Diaspora. Aus ihrem Geiste wurde 1918 aus dem Nachlass des osmanischen Reiches eine selbständige Republik begründet und diese nach 1991, dem Zeitpunkt der Auflösung der Sowjetunion, erneuert. Armenien ist heute eine der ethnisch konsolidiertesten Republiken der GUS.

Es berichtet die Privatdozentin Dr. Jasmine Dum-Tragut, die an den geisteswissenschaftlichen und theologischen Fakultäten der Universitäten Graz, Wien, Salzburg und Innsbruck, an der Staatlichen Universität Jerevan und an der LMU München lehrt.

REISESPLITTER: Vitamin Q in Georgien. Bei den tuschetischen Hirten. Von Philipp Ammon #ReiseKnowHowGeorgien

Ich reite einen elfjährigen Wallach, der auf den Namen Gledscho hört. Es ist einKabardiner mit Sprenkelungen. Ins braune Fell sind schon einige graue Haare eingestreut. Kennen Pferde eigentlich Asrael, den Engel des Todes? In einer nordkaukasischen Erzählung will Asrael einen Menschen für das Jenseits abholen. Der zum Tode ausgewählte bittet um Nachsicht und Aufschub und den Engel darum, sich beim nächsten Mal doch vorher anzukündigen. Als der Engel wieder unangekündigt erscheint, wirft der Mensch dem Engel vor, nicht gewarnt worden zu sein. Der Engel jedoch antwortet: "Der Tod, mein Freund, wird durch das graue Haar angekündigt". Gledscho wird noch ein langes Leben haben, denn Pferde sind vom Totengericht ausgenommen.

Der ganze Text mit mehr Bildern vom Autor: reise-know-how.de

ATLAS: Kulturweg der deutschen Minderheit in Georgien / Cultural Route of the German minority in Georgia / გერმანული უმცირესობის კულტურული მარშრუტი საქართველოშ

Die in diesem Atlas enthaltene Beschreibung und Kartografierung des Kulturerbes der von Deutschen gegründeten Orte Georgiens beruht auf der langjährigen Grundlagenforschung von Nestan Tataraschwili, Architektin, Restauratorin und wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin des Vereins zur Bewahrung deutschen Kulturguts im Südkaukasus (Tiflis). Diese Forschung wurde 2015 und 2016 von der Staatsagentur für Kulturerbeschutz Georgiens finanziert. Tatia Gwineria (Tiflis) hat den Abschnitt zu Tiflis westlich der Kura und die ausführlichen Beschreibungen in dem Abschnitt zu Neu-Tiflis verfasst. Zu einzelnen Texten und Ortsplänen haben Tamas Gersamia (Tiflis) und Leonhard-Eduard Breisch (Alexandershilf) beigetragen. Mit diesem Atlas werden erstmals Ortspläne aller Siedlungen mit deren herkömmlichen deutschen Orts-, Straßenund Örtlichkeitsnamen sowie den georgischen Bezeichnungen oder – falls es solche nicht gibt – mit der georgischen Umschrift der deutschen Namen veröffentlicht.

The description and mapping of the cultural heritage in the places founded by Germans in Georgia is based on the long-term fundamental research of Nestan Tatarashvili, architect, restorer and researcher of the Verein zur Bewahrung deutschen Kulturguts im Südkaukasus (Tbilisi). The research was funded by the National Agency for Cultural Heritage Preservation of Georgia in 2015 and in 2016. Tatia Gvineria (Tbilisi) is the author of the chapter about Tbilisi west of the River Kura and the detailed descriptions in the chapter about Neu-Tiflis. Tamaz Gersamia (Tbilisi) and Leonhard-Eduard Breisch have contributed to some texts and maps. For the first time, this atlas publishes contemporary maps of the aforementioned settlements with their traditional German place, street and other topographic names as well as the Georgian names or, where the latter do not exist, with the Georgian transliteration of the German names.

გერმანელების მიერ დაარსებული კოლონიების ტერიტორიაზე არსებული კულტურული მემკვიდრეობის ძეგლების აღწერა და მათი რუკებზე დატანა ეფუძნება სამხრეთ კავკასიაში გერმანული კულტურული მემკვიდრეობის დაცვის კავშირის (თბილისი) არქიტექტორ-რესტავრატორისა და მკვლევრის, ნესტან თათარაშვილის ფუნდამენტურ და გრძელვადიან კვლევას, რომელიც დააფინანსა საქართველოს კულტურული მემკვიდრეობის დაცვის ეროვნული სააგენტომ 2015 და 2016 წელს. თათია ღვინერიას (თბილისი) ეკუთვნის თავი, რომელიც ეხება მდინარე მტკვრის დასავლეთით მდებარე თბილისის ნაწილს. მასვე ეკუთვნის დეტალური აღწერა, რაც ნოი-ტიფლისის შესახებ თავშია წარმოდგენილი. თამაზ გერსამიამ (თბილისი) და ლეონარდ-ედუარდ ბრეიშმა წვლილი შეიტანეს ზოგიერთი ტექსტისა და რუკის შედგენაში. ამ ატლასში პირველად ქვეყნდება ზემოხსენებული კოლონიების თანამედროვე რუკები, სადაც ქართულ სახელწოდებებთან ერთად მითითებულია მათი გერმანული, ტრადიციული სახელები, მათ შორის, ადგილის, ქუჩის და სხვა ტოპოგრაფიული სახელწოდებები. ისეთი შემთხვევებისთვის, სადაც შესაბამისი ქართული სახელწოდებები არ არსებობს, გამოყენებულია გერმანული ვერსიების ქართული ტრანსლიტერაცია.

Kostenloser Reiseführer zu den deutschen Siedlungen

Rechtzeitig zu den 200-Jahr-Feierlichkeiten der deutschen Ansiedlung hat der Europarat einen Reiseführer zu den von Deutschen gegründeten Orten Georgiens veröffentlicht. Der „Kulturweg der deutschen Minderheit in Georgien“ ist im Netz (https://rm.coe.int) und als Broschüre kostenlos erhältlich. Er enthält eine Einführung in die Geschichte der Deutschen im Lande und stellt dann das bauliche Erbe aller historischen deutschen Siedlungen vor. Dargestellt werden auch die Werke deutscher Architekten in Tiflis. Mit dem "Kulturweg" werden erstmals heutige Ortspläne aller Siedlungen mit deren herkömmlichen deutschen Orts- und Straßennamen veröffentlicht. Die Beschreibung und Kartografierung des deutschen Kulturerbes beruht überwiegend auf der langjährigen Grundlagenforschung von Nestan Tataraschwili, Architektin, Restauratorin und wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin des Vereins zur Bewahrung deutschen Kulturguts im Südkaukasus. Diese Forschung wurde 2015 und 2016 von der Staatsagentur für Kulturerbeschutz Georgiens finanziert. Da der „Kulturweg“ auch im Deutschunterricht an georgischen Schulen eingesetzt werden soll, bietet das Goethe-Institut eine Schulung für Lehrer an (www.goethe.de). Der Europarat hat ähnliche "Kulturwege" zu zwölf anderen nationalen Minderheiten in Georgien veröffentlicht.

Mehr dazu hier: 
facebook.com/KulturerhaltGeorgien
Sichtbare Rehabilitierung: Mit den Ortsnamen kehrt die deutsche Minderheit zurück ins öffentliche Bewusstsein
Deutsches kulturelles Erbe und seine Rezeption: Deutsches Kulturerbe in der Hauptstadt Georgiens – Neu-Tiflis. Von Tamar Giorgobiani

VIDEO: Natia Todua - Debut Album Production

"Auch wenn sie nun nicht mehr wöchentlich im Fernsehen auftaucht, ist sie ihrem Motto treu geblieben: No music, no life – Kein Leben ohne Musik. Ausruhen kommt für die 22-Jährige nicht infrage. Nicht mal Zeit für den Führerschein bleibt, das Auto als Voice-Siegprämie hat sie ungefahren verkauft. Stattdessen nahm sie ein Stipendium von der Stiftung Starke in Berlin an. In einer Villa in Grunewald voller Künstler konnte sie dadurch günstig ein Zimmer beziehen, ein Netzwerk aufbauen und sich musikalisch inspirieren und weiterentwickeln.

Bejubelt wurden auch ihre Auftritte auf der Frankfurter Buchmesse, wo sie das Gastland Georgien vertrat, oder auch bei der Kommission der Europäischen Union in Georgien, wo sich vor Begeisterung plötzlich der EU-Botschafter selbst ans Schlagzeug setzte. Der Auftritt sowie ein Versöhnungslied mit Video über Georgien und Abchasien brachte das Gerücht auf, dass sie wieder in ihre Heimat gezogen ist. Keine Panik: „Ich bleibe in Deutschland“, lacht Natia.

Das Stipendium in Berlin dauert noch bis zum Sommer an, dazwischen stehen Konzert-Projekte mit Sponsoren an. Inzwischen hat sie auch das Management gewechselt, um dem großen Ziel näher zu kommen: ein Album mit eigenen Stücken. Bis dahin müssen allerdings noch die bestehenden Verträge von Fachleuten durchsortiert werden, um die Rechte an künftigen Songs zu sichern.

Im nächsten Jahr wird sie vor allem in Süddeutschland unterwegs sein. Gerade hat sie im Karlsdorfer Kangaroo-Studio für ein Wohnzimmer-Konzert in Minden geprobt und sich eine erfahrene Band zusammengestellt. Mit Gitarrist Joerg Dudys (Edo Zanki, Jule Neigel, Nena), Keyboarder Zlatko „Jimmy“ Kresic (Midge Ure, Alice Cooper, Ian Gillan), Bassist Jekko Stjepanovic (Relax, Bobby Kimball) und Schlagzeugerin Steffi Sachsenmeier (Joja Wendt, Superstrings) will sie weitere Projekte verwirklichen – und solange Natias Gastfamilie Schmitt wieder die komplette Band mit Maishühnchen bekocht wie vergangene Woche nach der Probe, könnte Bruchsal durchaus zum Musikstandort avancieren."

Der ganze Text von Armin Herberger hier >> bnn.de