Throughout his life, the Georgian Giwi Margwelaschwili crossed borders between countries, cultures and languages. His fate – on the one hand shaped by the political upheavals in Eastern Europe and Nazi Germany, on the other hand had a completely unique and unusual development.
Born in Berlin in 1927 as the son of Georgian emigrants, Giwi grew up speaking German. After the end of the war, he was arrested by the Soviet security service NKVD and interned in the former Sachsenhausen concentration camp. He was deported to Georgia in 1946. In his enforced speechlessness – Giwi Margwelaschwili hardly spoke any Russian and no Georgian – writing became his survival niche. His tragic life made its mark. When Giwi Margwelaschwili was allowed to travel to West Berlin for the first time in 1989 after the fall of the Berlin Wall, he had several book manuscripts in his luggage.
The film tells the story of Giwi Margwelaschwili’s life and his literature.
Between here and there- The writer Giwi Margwelaschwili
A film by Irene Langemann
30 min. Streaming
