Touching stories
History and stories – a dual couple Germany and Georgia in an unusual way. Firstly, there are a notable years: 200 years ago, in 1817, a initial German settlers arrived in Georgia, Swabian Pietists who during a invitation of Tsar Alexander we founded colonies and afterward played an critical purpose in Georgian informative history. And 25 years ago, in 1992, Germany non-stop a embassy in a Georgian collateral Tiflis. Germany was a initial republic to commend Georgia as eccentric of a Soviet Union. Both anniversaries are being distinguished by a German-Georgian Year 2017. Now years in story are a one side to things, while a people who fill chronological links with life are a other. The German-Georgian Year is holding place concurrently in both countries, and will offer many an eventuality for personal encounters.
Opening celebrations in Tiflis and Berlin
The gratifying year will applaud German-Georgian family in a form of large informative events such as entertainment performances, concerts, exhibitions and readings, as good as business forums, projects in a margin of growth cooperation, science, preparation and sports. They will specifically engage a German and Georgian polite society. Under a pointer “Inherit a Future”, a German-Georgian Year will flog off on 21 Apr 2017 in a chronological Tiflis City Hall; a German opening eventuality follows on 26 Apr in a Weltsaal during a German Federal Foreign Office in Berlin. There, Federal Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel and his Georgian reflection Michail Janelidze will together jointly announce a year open.
Nino Haratischwili© dpa
The events will continue until good into 2018 – and Georgia’s activities as Guest of Honour during a 2018 Frankfurt Book Fair will also come underneath a pointer of a shared relations. The Guest of Honour efforts have been strongly upheld by German-Georgian author Nino Kharatishvili, who has also been concerned in a preparations for a German-Georgian Year. Among other things, Kharatishvili is distinguished for her account of a century (covering a duration from 1900 to 2007) entitled “Das achte Leben (Für Brilka)” (The Eighth Life – For Brilka). And thus, even in a chairman of this immature author, who attended a German high propagandize in Tiflis and caused a stir during an early date with a German-Georgian entertainment group, we find a matrimony of both a perspective for story and a really contemporary exegesis of stories that are deeply touching.
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