Galaktion Tabidze
Galaktion Tabidse (Georgian გალაკტიონ ტაბიძე; born November 6, 1891 in Tschqwischi at Wani, † March 17, 1959 in Tbilisi ) was a Georgian poet and co-founder of the avant-garde group of poets Blue Horns.
Life
Tabidse visited the Georgian school in Kutaisi and then completed the Theological Seminary in Tbilisi. Early age of 16 he began to publish poems. His first book of poems appeared in 1914, his second, Artificial Bluumen, 1916. He became a great success with the public. The poems were influenced by French Symbolism, themed sonorous and onomatopoeic loneliness, isolation, lovelessness, and nightmarish premonitions. Especially popular were the poems Without Love ( 1913), I and the night (1913 ), The wind blows (1924 ) and The Moon of Mtazminda. In 1915 he was co-founder of the writers group Blue Horns, which played an important role in the renewal of the Georgian literature, becoming the talk of radical literary experiments of itself.
The Soviet Union tolerated the popular poet, but put him under pressure. His poems were first cryptic and nightmare -like. End of the 1920s, he turned away from the symbolism, sought refuge in a state-sanctioned, patriotic oriented realism: "We give our hearts to our country. " Between the lines he caricatured the Soviet policy. During the Stalinist purges of the late 1930s, his wife Olga and his brother were arrested by the NKVD. His wife died in 1944 in a Siberian labor camp, the brother was shot. Tabidse became depressed and developed an alcoholic.
In Tbilisi, he was a well-known phenomenon when he drunk wandered through the streets and talking to himself. Only occasionally he wrote poems, including a 80 -slice for the glory of the Cathedral of Nikorzminda in Racha. In 1959 he was admitted to a hospital with irreparable health damage. A few days later he jumped there from a window on the third floor and died of his injuries. He was buried in the Pantheon in Tbilisi. His grave is decorated with a bronze bust.
The texts composer Giya Kancheli used by Tabidse for his arisen 1984-1985 requiem light mourning, the conductor Jansug Kachidse set to music by The Moon Mtazminda for symphony orchestra and the Tbilisi City honored him with a monument and a street name.
Tabidse was married to Olga Okudzhava and was a cousin of the poet Titian Tabidse, like he belonged to the group Blue Horns.
Works
- Peach blossoms. In Bedi Kart Lisa, Paris 1958
- The moon of Mtazminda. In Bedi Kart Lisa, Paris 1972
- Galaktion Tabidse. Independent publishing house Acker Strasse, Berlin, 1991, ISBN 3-86172-025-6
- Ten Poems. Ganatleba, Tbilisi 1975
- Stihotvoreniâ. Sovetskii Pisatel, Moskva / Leningrad 1983