Sabri Mahir
Sabri Mahir (* 1890 in Istanbul ; †?) Was a Turkish professional football player who later became a boxer and successful boxing coach.
Life
Sabri Mahir played football for Galatasaray İstanbul in the Turkish top flight . During political unrest, he had to flee his country and moved to Paris . There he enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts and refined his artistic talent. Due to political unrest during the First World War , he moved to Berlin , where he fought as a boxer in a circus . He was known as "the terrible Turk Sabri Mahir" who "fights against four men". He then played four professional fights and after this short career became a boxing coach. He opened the boxing and breeding studio on Kurfürstendamm in Berlin in the 1920s, where he trained Franz Diener , among others . The so-called tea hours on the Ring took place in this studio , where he came into contact with Bertolt Brecht and other prominent personalities in Berlin. Because of a neon sign depicting a fist , which was also painted by a well-known painter of the political left , there were occasional meetings of the Berlin proletarians in Mahir's studio. Therefore he removed this symbol again.
literature
- Güney Dal: Tea Time at the Ring. 1999, ISBN 3-492-04116-7 .
Trivia
- The writer Vicki Baum trained in Sabri Mahir's boxing and breeding studio in the mid-1920s . In her novel Incident in Lohwinckel , published in 1930 , she portrayed Sabri Mahir with the figure of the boxing trainer Alexander Symotzky .
Web links
- Sabri Mahir in the BoxRec database
- Sabri Mahir in the BoxRec Encyclopaedia
Individual evidence
- ^ Nicole Nottelmann: The careers of Vicki Baum . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2007, p. 134 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mahir, Sabri |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | The terrible Turk |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Turkish boxer and boxing trainer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Istanbul |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th century |