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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.
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).
Dime novels; Comics; Wild West shows; Subgenres; ... List of Western television series; Golden Boot Awards; ... Karl May (1842–1912) Ardath Mayhar ...
American Western (genre) novelists (1 C, 59 P) ... This list may not reflect recent changes. ... Karl May; Cormac McCarthy;
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]
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 .
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.
The rights to Karl May's bestselling novels were purchased by producer Horst Wendlandt, who hired writers Harald G. Petersson, Gerhard F. Hummel, and Hans Wiedemann to develop treatments based on the first three Old Shatterhand-Winnetou novels. [1]