From Graz, the capital of Styria, it takes about half an hour by car or bus, heading east, to reach Gleisdorf. About 40 minutes later you would arrive Poellau ... north-east of Gleisdorf.

Any connection to Turkey there? How and why? They call it "province". And this is an area, where a poet still is admired, who was famous for his nationalistic poems, expressing a racist's attitude: Ottokar Kernststock.

A guy, who obviously had to compensate, that his carreer as a priest ended there in the "province". And his maybe most popular work is "Der steirische Waffensegen" (means: "the styrian blessing of weapons").

A collaboration with the more famous poet Peter Rosegger. It has been published in 1915, about two years, after Ottomans have finally been beaten on the Balkans. Even the City of Gleisdorf ist still featuring those guys. People have forgotten, what they stood for in World War I. Is it necessary to talk about that today? Yes, it is! Caus the way of discourses,

people like them established in trhe beginning of the 20th century, is still "à la mode". Now let's get back to Poellau: Any connection to Turkey there? How and why? They call it "province". But wait! Isn't "province" the place, where so many people come from, to make a center what it is at last?

If you enter "Das Schoss" ("The Palace") in Poellau, you first see that war memorial on WW 1 and WW 2. If you then come inside the halls, you maybe find some surpising pieces; like that:

Portraits of fotographer Othmar Pferschy and his wife Astrid von Schell. Pferschy was born 1858 in Graz, but raised in Fuerstenfeld, just 30 minutes east of Gleisdorf. [english feature] (See also: ÖZENDES, ENGIN Under the Light of the Republic: The Photographs of Othmar Pferschy 2006 Istanbul Modern, Istanbul)

Pferschy at:
Özel St. Georg Avusturya Lisesi ve Ticaret Okulu [link]
art magazine [link] | Wiener Zeitung [link]

It is said, his studio "was located at 243 Istiklâl Caddesi ..." Of course I know the Istiklâl Street. I started "next code" there in 2006: [link] And I saw it again this week, watching the movie "Yasamin kiyisinda " (2007) by Fatih Akin on a silent Gleisdorf evening: [link]

As there was Nejat Aksu (Baki Davrak) putting the posters at the wall, I knew, I have been there, at this corner ... As I had prooved ist, yes, indeed:

Same doors. The coloured poster below was part of "exociti" [link]. It has been a lot of action there. New posters night by night. You see, there are allways some links between those places, provinces and capitals, lifes connected ...

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