The author Karl Friedrich May belongs to the best selling German novelists of the nineteenth century. He was born on February 25, 1842 and died on 03/30/1912. Above 200 million units of Karl Friedrich May’s works were bought around the globe. The most popular figures of Karl May’s novels are Old Shatterhand and Winnetou. Winnetou is the smart chief of the Apache Indians, and Old Shatterhand is his white pal.
Between 1912 and 1968 there were turned out 23 movies following Karl May’s novels. The American actor Lex Barker became very popular for playing the role of Old Shatterhand. Another main Karl May character is Old Shurehand. The British performer Stewart Granger played the role of Old Shurehand in 3 movies. The films became very successful, although some of them only inaccurately following the original Karl May stories.
The Karl F. May stories have been translated into more than thirty languages and have been publicized in various countries. They are successful even in countries like Indonesia and the Czech Republic. Over eighty-seven novels are included in the German Karl F. May collection, all of which could be available at this online book shop: astore.amazon.de/karl-may-buecher-21. The available English translations of Karl May’s novels can be purchased at this web book store: Karl May Books at Amazon
Stories 1 – 9 have been publicized to the German public under those headers:
- Band 1: Durch die Wueste
- Band 2: Durchs wilde Kurdistan
- Band 3: Von Bagdad nach Stambul
- Band 4: In den Schluchten des Balkan
- Band 5: Durch das Land der Skipetaren
- Band 6: Der Schut
- Band 7: Winnetou I
- Band 8: Winnetou II
- Band 9: Winnetou III
Karl F. May wrote the first three Winnetou volumes and the 3 Old Shurehand books between 1890 and 1900. They are set in the illustrious Wild West of North America. Funny is the actuality that Karl F. May’s first travel to North America took place not before the year 1908. This voyage took him to Buffalo, the Niagara Falls and Albany, but not farther west. Consequently his popular novels came from imagination, creativity and factual sources such as guide books, travel accounts and maps, as well as anthropological books.
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