Vasha-Pshawela

Vasha-Pshawela

Vascha-Pschawela and his family

Vazha-Pshavela (native Luka Rasikaschwili ; Georgian ვაჟა-ფშაველა * July 14 ^jul. / 26 July  1861 ^greg. In Tschargali, Government Tbilisi , Russian Empire , now Georgia ; † June 27 ^jul. / 10. July  1915 ^{greg .} in Tbilisi ) was a Georgian writer and natural philosopher. He was a representative of the Georgian national movement.

Life

He was born in the mountain village of Tschargali in the Pschawi province in northeast Georgia, attended the spiritual school in Telavi and studied at the educational seminar in Gori . He later moved to Saint Petersburg and studied law at the university as a guest student, but was forced to give up his studies after two years due to lack of money. After his return to Georgia he worked first as a private teacher, later as a teacher in the village of Didi Toneti, until he gave up his position due to differences of opinion with the landed gentry and lived as a farmer in his home village. From 1881 he also devoted himself to literature.

He wrote epics, poems and stories, and took the pseudonym Vascha-Pschawela (German: Pschawischer Bursche). His most important works include the epics Aluda Ketelauri , Bachtrioni , Gogotur and Apschina , host and guest , The Snake Eater , Eteri and Mindia . They have been broadcast in more than 20 languages. The main subjects of his poetry were man and nature. In his first work Gogotur and Apschina he worked out his ideal of humanity and goodness, which was to become the guiding principle of his further epic work. The background for the action of most of the epics is the landscape of Pshawi and, above all, Chewsuria , which, thanks to its natural location and inaccessibility in the high mountains of the Caucasus, has kept traditional customs and old social structures alive. Their conflict with modern ways of life and the demands for social development, which were connected with the rapid industrialization towards the end of the 19th century, is another important theme in Pschawela's work.

His special regional ties (and regional ties) are particularly expressed in the epic Bachtrioni , but are also reflected in his poetic, spiritualized descriptions of nature and the use of linguistic and dialectal peculiarities of his home region in his epic work.

The stories The Story of Ivan Kotorashvili and No Suffering Without Freud were filmed in Georgia in 1974 and 1984. The director Tengis Abuladze was already inspired in 1967 by two poems by Pschawela for the film Molba (Eng. Prayer ). Otar Taktakishvili composed seven romances in 1955 and the opera Mindia in 1960/61 based on his lyrical models.

The poet was married and had three children. The son Levan Razikashvili died at the age of 29 in the August uprising in Georgia in 1924.

He died in 1915 and was buried on the Pantheon on Mtatsminda in Tbilisi . The western summit of Pobedy Peak in Tian Shan , located on the Kyrgyz - Chinese border, was named after him (Pik Wascha-Pschawela, 6762  m , ⊙ ).

Works

• The snake eater . In: Georgika: Journal of the Culture, Language and History of Georgia and the Caucasus . No. 17 and 18, 1994, 1995
• The host

literature

• Steffi Chotiwari disciple : Važa-P´šavela . In: Gero von Wilpert: Lexicon of world literature . Alfred Kröner Verlag, Stuttgart 2004
• Gertrud Pätsch : Washa-Pschawela and realism . Scientific journal / Friedrich Schiller University Jena, social and linguistic series, 22 (1973)
• Donald Rayfield: Vaza-Pshavela, Aluda Ketelauri . Modern Poetry in Translation. 1983, I.
• Heinz Fähnrich : Georgian literature . Aachen 1993
• Micho Mossulishvili : And Phelypaea coccinea looks in the abyss (characters over Vascha-Pschawela) , non-fiction, a series of illustrative biographies by the publishing house Pegasi, 2011 - ISBN 978-9941-9179-6-7

Web links

Commons : Vazha Pshavela  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Wascha-Pschawela in the catalog of the German National Library
• Wascha-Pschawela's grave on the Tbilisi Pantheon (ge, en)
• Biography , Georgian Literature (Georgian)