Blaue Hörner (tsisper kantselebi)
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Die Blauen Hörner (georgisch Tsisperi Kantsebi) waren eine Gruppe junger georgischer Schriftsteller. Sie spielte eine wichtige Rolle bei der Erneuerung der georgischen Literatur. Ihre avantgardistischen Gedichte wurden durch Übersetzungen Boris Pasternaks bekannt.

Gegründet wurden die Blauen Hörner 1915 im Keller-Café Kimerioni, im Haus der Georgischen Künstlergesellschaft am Rustaweli-Boulevard in Tiflis. Inspirator der Gruppe war der vom Studium in Deutschland zurückgekehrte Dichter Grigol Robakidse. Zum Gründerkreis gehörten außerdem Paolo Iaschwili, Tizian Tabidse, Galaktion Tabidse, Nikolo Mizischwili, Kolau Nadiradse und Walerian Gaprindaschwili. Die 13-köpfige Gruppe gab die Wochenzeitung Bachtrioni (dt. Die Barrikade) heraus und machte durch radikale literarische Experimente von sich reden. Ihr Ziel war es, die traditionelle georgische Kultur mit Moderne und Technik zu verbinden. Zunächst fühlten sie sich dem Symbolismus verpflichtet, später schlossen sie sich dem Dadaismus an. Die neuen Freiheiten in der Demokratischen Republik Georgien gaben der Gruppe ab 1918 starken Auftrieb.

Nach der Besetzung Georgiens durch die Rote Armee 1921 gerieten die literarischen Avantgardisten unter Druck. Paolo Iaschwili und Tizian Tabidse hatten die kommunistischen Truppen bei ihrem Einmarsch in Tiflis noch mit roten Nelken begrüßt. Robakidse beteiligte sich 1924 an der anti-sowjetischen Befreiungsbewegung, emigrierte 19311920er Jahre wandten sich die Blauen Hörner vom Symbolismus ab, suchten Zuflucht in einem staatlich geduldeten, patriotisch orientierten Realismus: „Wir geben unser Herz unserem Land.“ nach Deutschland. Ende der

Während der Stalinschen Säuberungen wurden viele Mitglieder der Gruppe verhaftet. Paolo Iaschwili erschoss sich im Juli 1937 mit einem Jagdgewehr im Gebäude der georgischen Schriftstellergewerkschaft. Die Gewerkschaft hatte ihn der antisozialen UmtriebeTizian Tabidse wurde auf Anweisung des transkaukasischen KP-Chefs Lawrenti Berija im gleichen Jahr zu Tode gefoltert. Im Verhör nach seinem trotzkistischen Komplizen befragt, gab er den Namen eines georgischen Schriftstellers aus dem 18. Jahrhundert an. Nikolo Mizischwili wurde ebenfalls 1937 zum Tode verurteilt und erschossen. für schuldig befunden und so seine Existenz vernichtet.

Kolau Nadiradse entkam den Säuberungen nur durch einen Zufall: Sein Vernehmer wurde noch vor dem Prozess selbst inhaftiert. Nadiradse entschloss sich für Jahrzehnte zum Konformismus gegenüber der Kommunistischen Partei. Seine wahre Einstellung schilderte er in einem Gedicht: „Es fiel Schnee, ganz Tbilisi war zugedeckt mit einem weißen Leichentuch. Sioni schwieg, und es schwieg das Volk. Auf einem schwarzen Pferd kam mit rotem Banner und Sichel der Tod.“

Werke

Ein Schluck aus dem blauen Trinkhorn: Gedichte des georgischen Symbolismus. M. Saladse u. A. Korn, Wien 1994

Poety Gruzii. V perevodah B. L. Pasternaka i H. S. Tihonova. Vstupitelnaja statja, redaktsia i slovar Nikolo Mitsishvili, Tiflis 1935

Nikolo Mitsishvili: Izbrannoe. Sabchota Sakartvelo, Tbilisi 1971

Kolau Nadiradze: Odnotomnik. Merani, Tbilisi 1971

Kolau Nadiradze: Tbilisskoe utro: stikhi. Sovetskii pisatel, Moskva 1977

Kolau Nadiradze: I dlitsia mai: stikhotvoreniia i poemy. Khudozhestvennaia literatura, Moskva 1981

Galaktion Tabidze: Ten Poems. Ganatleba, Tbilisi 1975

Galaktion Tabidze: Stihotvoreniâ. Sovetskii pisatel, Moskva/Leningrad 1983

Titsian Tabidze: Stichotvorenija: perevod s gruzinskogo. Moskva, 1960

Titsian Tabidze: Stikhotvoreniya i poemy. Sovetskii pisatel, Moskva/Leningrad 1964

Titsian Tabidze: Avtoportret: izbrannye stikhotvoreniia i poemy. Vsemirnoe slovo, Sankt-Petersburg 1995, ISBN 5-86442-012-3

Literatur

Boris L. Pasternak: Briefe nach Georgien. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1968

Donald Rayfield: The Literature of Georgia: A History. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1994, ISBN 0-19-815191-8

Tatjana Lvovna Nikolskaja: Avangard i okrestnosti. Izdat. Ivana Limbacha, Sankt Petersburg 2002, ISBN 5-89059-010-3

Steffi Chotiwari-Jünger: Tabije (Tabidse), Galaktion. In: Gero von Wilpert: Lexikon der Weltliteratur. Alfred Kröner Verlag, Stuttgart 2004

Kristiane Lichtenfeld: Galaktion Tabidse. In: Georgica. Bd. 15 (1992), S. 119-126

Weblinks

Dada im Kauskasus: Georgien als Provinz der europäischen Avantgarde

Quelle: „http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaue_Hörner“

Kategorien: Geschichte Georgiens Kultur (Georgien) Literatur (20. Jh.) Literatur (Georgisch) Symbolismus (Literatur)

Escalation in Caucasus between Russia and Georgia
7 Dec 2006 06:02, International Real Estate Digest

By Simeon Mitropolitski

"Russia and Georgia, both former Soviet republics, are in a midst of an economic and diplomatic 'war' in order to boost their governments' standing. Unlike many other similar 'wars' in post-Soviet time, tiny Georgia initiated this one. Moscow reacted or rather overreacted on many fronts, making sure to all observers that it didn't expect such a bold move coming from a small and basically harmless neighbor. Despite all calls in Moscow to give Georgians what they deserve, it seems Russia is losing another small battle in the global confrontation with the United States."

full text: Escalation in Caucasus between Russia and Georgia

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MUSIC: Gogi Dzodzuashvili & Nika Machaidze

Gogi Dzodzuashvili wurde 1971 in Tbilisi geboren und studierte dort an der medizinischen Universität. Seine ersten Alben „clear & cold“, „friends“ erschienen 1994 und 1996. Es folgte „sami“ zusammen mit Nika Machaidze und Manana Menabde, im Jahr 2000 „mjave message“. Gogi Dzodzuashvili schrieb Musik für Theater („The crucible“ von Arthur Miller und „King Lear“ unter Regie von D. Doiashvili sowie „medea.material“ von Heiner Müller) und Film („fly alone“ von Nika Machaidze, „Sieben Tage in Tibet“ von Gio Mgeladze und „timecode“ von Sandro Jandieri). 2004 erschien beim Label Max Ernst die CD „post industrial boys“.




Born in Tbilisi, Georgia in 1972, 'Nikakoi' ('Nobody' in Russian) Nika Machaidze is not only a highly-regarded electronic composer Erast but an award-winning film and video director too. He was educated in animation and film at the Tbilisi State Institute of Cinematography during the 1990s and since 1996 has directed numerous videos, some with Tamuna Karumidze and some solo (for Gogi Dzodzuashvili and his own Erast track "Poema").


Machaidze is the co-founder of Goslab, a multi-media collective of Georgian artists that includes TBA (Natalie Beridze) and George Dzodzuashvili (aka Gogi Ge.Org and Post Industrial Boys). In addition to his own music, he has created music for fashion shows, plays, documentaries, and films and, in 1999, won a grand prize at the Festival of Electronic Music in Paris. A successful concert at the WMF club in 2001 led to the release of his first album Sestrichka on WMF Records in March, 2002 followed by the EP City Lights and Shentimental, also on WMF. He has performed at Berlin's Transmediale, Barcelona's SONAR, and at festivals in Paris and Athens.


"Q4" his contribution to the 2004 Advanced Public Listening compilation and first appearance on the Berlin-based Laboratory Instinct imprint, was followed by the EPs GoodAir and Minimissing, which were subsequently combined on the Goodair + Minimissing release. 2005 found Machaidze releasing the Erast full-length Cyberpunk on Laboratory Instinct.


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Great Power Rivalry: Destabilization in the Caucasus
by Aaron Sander
He is a graduate student at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri where he is studying for a Master’s in International Affairs with a focus on Russian foreign policy. He is currently studying at MGIMO in Moscow.

Russia Profile, Russia - 19 hours ago
Recent relations between Russia and Georgia are only the latest reaction to a trend that began with the fall of the Soviet Union – Western encroachment into the former Soviet sphere. The increased tension is a sign that political change in the Caucasus, perhaps resulting in increased conflict, is even more likely. At the heart of this conflict are issues of control over strategic territory and strategic resources. Unfortunately, these issues are difficult to resolve. While recent events may have been characterized by mere rhetoric, all conflicts begin in a similar way: they only remain rhetorical until action is taken...

full text: Great Power Rivalry: Destabilization in the Caucasus

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7,000 Years of Wine

7,000 Years of Wine

posted by Bruce Godfrey

Historians and archaeologists suggest that wine has been produced by the human race for perhaps 7,000 years. The earliest archaeological records suggest "wine stones" in the Caucasus mountains, in or near what is now the Republic of Georgia. Wine was highly symbolic in the introduction of Orthodox Christianity to Georgia, and to its later cultural and military resistance against Islamic invaders, whose abstinence from wine Georgians mocked through the carving of grape bunches and vineyards into castle and church walls. During the Soviet Union, Georgia's southern latitude, moderate, dry climate and fertile hills provided by far the best wine region of the U.S.S.R. To this day, one can buy Georgian wine at fine wine retailers, especially in northwest Baltimore County where Russian- and Ukrainian-American immigrants retain some of the taste preferences from their homeland.

I enjoyed a bottle of Georgian Khvanchkara some months ago - not in one sitting, of course, but my wife did not find it to her taste, so it was my treat over a week or so. I found it to have a strongly oaky taste, and was fuller of grape "mash" than most Americans expect in their wine (I know that a wine snob will email me and tell me that there is no "wine mash" but no other English word really conveys it for me.) But it was a treat, an unusual delight from about 8-9 time zones away.

This Khvanchkara is symbolic of why this new blog, Crabernet, exists. Wine is history, culture, religion, economics, tradition, family and a great delight. Wine manifests that we are who we have been and were and once had been. Unlike the soda pop of the day, producing even passable wine requires time, commitment, discipline, wisdom, a little fanaticism and more than a little luck. Wine connects us not just to the roots of Western Civilization but well before that civilization took root.

Wine was known to the People of Israel who, under whatever precise conditions and details, trekked out of bondage in Eqypt into the Negev and ultimately to the Land of Israel. Wine was already ancient when bartenders in Imperial Rome cut it with salt water to extend its volume. For some, wine is literally the transsubstantiated Divine Presence, a mystery of the Divine Liturgy in Orthodox Christianity, a mitzvah at Shabbat or the Seder table. Wine can also be pink 6 dollar plonk or, at the lowest level of vintner prestige, the low-quality fortified wines of ill repute, the dread Mad Dog 20/20, Ripple, Nighttrain and Thunderbird.

Crabernet will luxuriate in exploring wine in all its variety, glory, history, heritage and enjoyment. You will see posts here on "wine news", varietal grapes, varietal wines, wines from unusual places and of unusual flavors. You will see commentary on the law, economics and politics of wine, comparisons of wine accessories from cheap wine glasses through the infamously expensive but oh-so-beautiful Riedel stemware and non-stem wine glass models. You will see wine art, wine jokes, agronomy and viticulture and more than a taste of local pride in Maryland's small but very active wine industry.

Please enjoy.

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Tag: Food & Wine

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... kilometres as they cycle eastward through Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and China. ... in the great inland seas of the Caucasus, taste the delights of Samarkand and test ...

The EU and Turkey are in a wrestling match, where neither side can afford to let go 3 Dec 2006 22:11, The Daily Star
... other names like Anatolia or Asia Minor. The most easterly Roman forts are inside Georgia on the foothills of the Caucasus Mountains. To the southeast, the main Roman customs houses were along the Euphrates - ...

Armenian periodicals hungry for paper 3 Dec 2006 17:31, ITAR-TASS
... rule, paper was delivered from the North Caucasus by truck, but this is now impossible, ... June in a disagreement between Russia and Georgia. The Ilyichevsk port administration has refused to ...

RUSSIA WANTS SOUTH OSSETIA AND ABKHAZIA'S LEADERS TO TAKE PART IN THE PACE SESSION 2 Dec 2006 14:23, The Voice of Russia
... Earlier, the PACE mission visited Russia and Georgia to monitor on the spot the real ... on settling the simmering conflict in the Caucasus, is unlikely to settle it without listening ...

New natural gas pipeline across Aegean is good news for Greece 2 Dec 2006 06:20, Athens News
... and, soon, from Azerbaijan through the South Caucasus line. Ambitious Turkish re-export plans include the ... as a weapon against nearby states like Georgia and Belarus. An EU-Russia energy summit in ...

Georgian-Russian relations chat changes little 2 Dec 2006 06:11, International Security Network
... was quick to dispel any notions of Georgia as a Soviet-era petitioner for good will ... communication and transportation routes with the South Caucasus state. Georgian media focused considerable attention on ...

Elite Russian troops 'ready to deal' with coup 2 Dec 2006 04:50, The Tocqueville
... of the kind seen in Ukraine and Georgia seems remote in a country where opposition ... Chechnya or other provinces in Russia's mountainous Caucasus region, known officially as the "zone of ...

Georgia's premier said Friday that negotiations with Azerbaijan on gas deliveries have been successful and important. 1 Dec 2006 16:37, RIA Novosti
... gas deliveries have been successful and important. Georgia is looking to diversify its gas imports ... to Turkey via Georgia through the South Caucasus pipeline operated by BP and Statoil at ...

South Caucasus Youth Festival is held in Tbilisi on World AIDS Day 1 Dec 2006 16:20,Regnum
... South Caucasus Youth Festival is held in Tbilisi on ... statictics, the number of AIDS-infected people in Georgia is 1,095. ...

Georgian PM hails gas talks with Azerbaijan 1 Dec 2006 16:20, RIA Novosti
... gas deliveries have been successful and important. Georgia is looking to diversify its gas imports ... to Turkey via Georgia through the South Caucasus pipeline operated by BP and Statoil at ...

S. Ossetia "alternative" leader inaugurated in conflict zone 1 Dec 2006 14:41, RIA Novosti
... of South Ossetia's election and plebiscite have not been recognized as legitimate, either by Georgia or by the West, as they undermine the Caucasus state's territorial integrity. South Ossetia seceded from Georgia following a bloody ethnic conflict in ...

Georgia hopes to receive gas from Azerbaijan 1 Dec 2006 14:05, Baku Sun
... summit in Minsk, Belarus, Tuesday. (AP) TBILISI, Georgia (AP) Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili said ... Saakashvili has sought to bring the poor Caucasus nation closer to the West and join ...

THE ISSUE OF MISSING PERSONS «HAS BECOME A TRADE» 1 Dec 2006 13:47, A1 Plus
... as the other does the same. In Georgia the number missing persons is 500, and ... titled Issues of missing persons in South Caucasus. Representatives of Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia and NKR ...

EBRD to issue Georgia $10 mln to rebuild power plant 1 Dec 2006 11:00, RIA Novosti
... December 1 (RIA Novosti) - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development could give Georgia $10 million in 2007 on efforts to rebuild the Caucasus state's largest hydropower plant, the finance minister said Friday. Georgia and the EBRD are ...

Is NATO Ready for Georgia? 1 Dec 2006 10:17, A1 Plus
... summit of a 26-member NATO in Riga, Georgia has been buoyed by support from the ... Tbilisi. Institute for War and Peace Reporting, Caucasus Reporting Service ...

From Deportations to Wine Embargo, Saakashvili-Putin Chat Changes Little 1 Dec 2006 06:32,Eurasianet
... was quick to dispel any notions of Georgia as a Soviet-era petitioner for good will ... communication and transportation routes with the South Caucasus state. Georgian media focused considerable attention on ...

Riga Summit Declaration (NATO) 1 Dec 2006 06:15, Latvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
... reaffirm that the Alliance will continue with Georgia and Ukraine its Intensified Dialogues which cover ... persistence of regional conflicts in the South Caucasus and the Republic of Moldova. Our nations ...

NATO EXPRESSES READINESS TO ASSIST 30 Nov 2006 16:46, A1 Plus
... the regional wholeness of Moldavia and South Caucasus countries. Mr. Fried assumes that the decision ... achieve their aim. But it is beyond Georgia to decide as the country bears full ...

NATO Summit Declares Bigger, Stronger Rapid Reaction Force 30 Nov 2006 13:51, Zaman

NATO Supports Efforts for Peaceful Settlement of Conflicts in South Caucasus 30 Nov 2006 13:11, Yerkir.am

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