Georgien

Languages and Cultures of the Caucasus

A Festschrift for Kevin Tuite

This anthology presents current findings from Caucasus Studies. The focus is on contributions from the fields of linguistics, history and socio-cultural anthropology. All authors...

Große Kriege und Schlachten der Georgier

Von den Assyrienkriegen bis König Giorgi Lascha

The most important Georgian battles (wars and battles) within three millennia are presented here in chronological order in a brief overview. The period covers the span from the...

Staatsbürgerschaft an der Grenze

Die georgischsprachigen Ingiloer in Aserbaidschan

The present book “Citizenship at the Border. The Georgian-speaking Ingiloys in Azerbaijan” ethnographically explores, on the one hand, the relationship between state and citizens...

The Nominal Domain in Georgian

A diachronic analysis

The present book analyzes the nominal domain in the Georgian language in its diachronic development. In Georgian, the noun phrase went through crucial changes over the centuries...

Der Mythos Niko Pirosmani

Auf den Spuren eines kuriosen Künstlerlebens im Georgien der Jahrhundertwende. Übersetzt aus dem Georgischen von Heinz Fähnrich

Today, Niko Pirosmani (1865-1919) is considered one of the most important painters in the history of 20th century art. As a self-taught, penniless vagabond and artist in life, his...

Gestalten der Geschichte Georgiens

vom 2. Jahrtausend v. Chr. bis zu den Mongolen

No english description available. Showing german description:
Die Arbeit führt in alphabetischer Reihenfolge eine Großzahl historischer Persönlichkeiten auf, die die...

Die Könige der Parnawasiden

Georgien in der Weltgeschichte

No english description available. Showing german description:
Zwei Herrscherdynastien haben den Verlauf der Geschichte Georgiens entscheidend mitgeprägt. Die erste ist die...

Georgische Handschriften

Few languages ​​in the world look back on more than 1500 years of uninterrupted written tradition – Georgian, the language of the Christian country south of the Caucasus, is one...

Cultural Interactions in Medieval Georgia

Situated between the mountain ranges of the Caucasus, the country of Georgia was constantly exposed to contacts with both nearby cultures and such far-away realities as the...

Songbook Georgia | Liederbuch Georgien

Georgia’s World Cultural Heritage | Georgiens Weltkulturerbe

The songs of Georgia are part of Unesco’s World Cultural Heritage. This Songbook of Georgia, which focuses on the female repetoire of traditional songs, is the product of two...

Erzählungen aus Georgien

The descendant of a noble family, Ilia Tschawtschawadse, who was an author, banker and a publicist, is considered as the „Father of the Nation“. As one of the first after the...

Georgische Literatur in deutschen Übersetzungen

Bibliographie – 1887 bis 2017

According to the last bibliography "The literatures of the peoples of the Caucasus - New translations and German-language bibliography" (2003) by Steffi Chotiwari-Jünger, this...

Das Spiel des Todesengels

Georgien unter Stalin. Ein dokumentarischer Roman

No english description available. Showing german description:
„Das Spiel des Todesengels“ verkörpert eine Art dokumentarischen Roman, der einen großen Teil der Geschichte des...

Die Kartwelier

Grundsprache Kultur Lebensraum

No english description available. Showing german description:
Aufbauend auf verschiedenen Publikationen, die der Autor in den letzten Jahren verfaßt bzw. mitverfaßt hat...

Saints cavaliers

Culte et images en Géorgie aux IVe–XIe siècles

No english description available. Showing german description:
This is the first archeological, iconographical and hagiological study, based on the unpublished archaeological...

Verkehrswege in Kaukasien

Ein Integrationsproblem des Zarenreiches 1780–1870

This study investigates Russia’s 100 year expansion into her southern periphery, and the gradual integration of this new territory through infrastructure. These measures...

Der Pass der Flüchtlinge

No english description available. Showing german description:
Als Ende der 1980er Jahre die Sowjetunion auseinanderfiel und sich aus den ehemaligen Sowjetrepubliken neue,...

Fokuspartikeln und Wortstellung im Georgischen

The topic of the book is the so called “Focus particles” and their interaction with the word order regularities in Georgian, as the most prominent representative of the south...

Der Recke im Tigerfell

Schota Rusthaweli. Ein altgeorgisches Poem. Deutsche Nachdichtung von Hugo Huppert

Shota Rustaveli’s „Knight in the Tiger’s Skin“ is regarded as the national epic of the Georgians. As a work of the early 13th century, it connects in an impressive way ideas of...

Caucasus during the Mongol Period – Der Kaukasus in der Mongolenzeit

The anthology takes a comparative approach to reconstructing the perceptions that the Armenians and Georgians developed of their Mongol conquerors in the 13th and 14th centuries....