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  2. Karl May - Wikipedia

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    Karl Friedrich May (/ m aɪ / MY, German: [kaʁl ˈmaɪ] ⓘ; 25 February 1842 – 30 March 1912) was a German author. He is best known for his novels of travels and adventures, set in the American Old West, the Orient, the Middle East, Latin America, China and Germany.

  3. Winnetou - Wikipedia

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    Winnetou is a fictional Native American hero of several novels written in German by Karl May (1842–1912), one of the best-selling German writers of all time with about 200 million copies worldwide, including the Winnetou trilogy. The character made his debut in the novel Old Firehand (1875).

  4. Old Shatterhand - Wikipedia

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    Old Shatterhand is a fictional character in Western novels by German writer Karl May (1842–1912). He is the German friend and blood brother of Winnetou , the fictional chief of the Mescalero tribe of the Apache .

  5. Western fiction - Wikipedia

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    Meanwhile, non-American authors, like the German Karl May, picked up the genre, went to full novel length, and made it hugely popular and successful in continental Europe from about 1880 on, though they were generally dismissed as trivial by the literary critics of the day. [7]

  6. List of Western fiction authors - Wikipedia

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    Karl May (1842–1912) Ardath Mayhar (1930–2012) Cormac McCarthy (1933-2023) Lucile Saunders McDonald (1898–1992) Michael McGarrity (born 1939) Thomas McGuane (born 1939) Larry McMurtry (1936–2021) Leonard Frank Meares; Joaquin Miller (1837–1913) Balduin Möllhausen (1825–1905) Lorin Morgan-Richards (born 1975) Clarence Edward Mulford ...

  7. The 10 Best Western Movies Ever Made - AOL

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    10. ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’ (1969) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 89%. IMDb Score: 8/10. A train robbery gone wrong sets the stage for what has become not just a classic Western film, but ...

  8. Native Americans in German popular culture - Wikipedia

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    The Karl May festivals (in East and West Germany) gain interest by real Indian guests and partners in the meantime. In 2006, the cultural authority of the Mescalero Apaches and the Karl-May-Haus in Hohenstein-Ernstthal made an agreement to cooperate. [20] Films based on May's Winnetou novels were shot from 1962 to 1968, starring Pierre Brice.

  9. List of Western subgenres - Wikipedia

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    Several Euro-Western films, nicknamed sauerkraut Westerns [32] because they were made in Germany and shot in Yugoslavia, were derived from stories by novelist Karl May, and were film adaptations of May's work. One of the most popular German Western franchises was the Winnetou series, which featured a Native American Apache hero in the lead role.

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