# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/giwi-margwelaschwili
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:29:04.242Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/giwi-margwelaschwili"
name: "Giwi Margwelaschwili"
slug: "giwi-margwelaschwili"
description: "Giwi Margwelaschwili was a German-Georgian writer and philosopher. Born in Berlin to anti-communist Georgian refugees, he was raised as a German. After World War II, his father and he were abducted by the Soviet NKVD secret police. His father, Tite Margwelaschwili was shot by the NKVD and Giwi was imprisoned in the former Sachsenhausen concentration camp for 18 months and then, speaking neither Russian nor Georgian, he was released to Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, where he had relatives. He learned both languages and studied English, working as a language teacher. He wrote novels and philosophy books in German. He returned to Germany and became a German citizen in 1994. In 2011, he moved back to Tbilisi again."
tagline: "Georgian philosopher (1927-2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Margwelaschwili-giwi.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1927-12-14"
deathDate: "2020-03-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.139957333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm5826744"
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    url:       "http://www.giwi-margwelaschwili.de/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump