Karl Friedrich May novels and films have an enthused group of followers in Germany
The writer Karl Friedrich May belongs to the most famous German novelists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He was born on 02/25/1842 and passed away on 03/30/1912. Above 200,000,000 pieces of Karl F. May’s stories were purchased world-wide. The best-known heroes of Karl Friedrich May’s volumes are Winnetou and Old Shatterhand. Winnetou is the wise leader of the Apache Tribe, and Old Shatterhand is his white pal.
Between 1912 and 1968 there were shot more than twenty movies following Karl Friedrich May’s stories. The American actor Lex Barker became very renowned for acting as the character of Old Shatterhand. Another important Karl May character is Old Shurehand. The British performer Stewart Granger acted as the character of Old Shurehand in three movies. Those movies became quite successful, although partially only improperly following the original Karl Friedrich May novels.
The Karl Friedrich May books have been translated into over 40 languages and have been released in many countries. They are popular even in countries like Bulgaria and the Netherlands. Exceeding eighty-three volumes are included in the German Karl May collection, all of which could be offered at that web book shop: astore.amazon.de/karl-may-buecher-21.
Novels 1 to 9 have been released to the German public under those headers:
- Gesammelte Werke 1: Durch die Wueste
- Gesammelte Werke 2: Durchs wilde Kurdistan
- Gesammelte Werke 3: Von Bagdad nach Stambul
- Gesammelte Werke 4: In den Schluchten des Balkan
- Gesammelte Werke 5: Durch das Land der Skipetaren
- Gesammelte Werke 6: Der Schut
- Gesammelte Werke 7: Winnetou I
- Gesammelte Werke 8: Winnetou II
- Gesammelte Werke 9: Winnetou III
Karl Friedrich May wrote the first three Winnetou novels and the 3 Old Shurehand novels in the 1890s. They are set in the illustrious Wild West of North America. Mentionable is the actuality that Karl Friedrich May’s first travel to America occured not before the year 1908. This tour took him to the Niagra Falls, Buffalo and Albany, but not farther to the West. Consequently his famous novels are a product of creativity, imagination and factual sources as maps, travel accounts and guide books, as well as linguistic studies.
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