Karl May
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Karl Friedrich May was a German author known for travel writing. His works, often in first-person narrative sabout travels and adventures, were mostly set in the American Old West or the Orient and Mi
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The family house then on Niedergasse 111, where Karl May was born in Hohenstein-Ernstthal. The house was inherited by May's mother in 1838 and sold in 1845 (photo 1910).
The house where Karl May was born is now located on Karl-May-Straße (photo 2005). The street was named in his honor. Next to the house is a modern Karl May depository, literary museum and research center that was established in July 2022.
May and Sascha Schneider, 1904
Old Shatterhand
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Old Shatterhand is a fictional character in Western novels by German writer Karl May. He is the German friend and blood brother of Winnetou, the fictional chief of the Mescalero tribe of the Apache. H
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…and Middle East, but also in Latin America, China and within Germany. For a time he insisted that he actually had travelled to the West and was called Old Shatterhand there, while in the Ottoman Empire he was called Kara Ben Nemsi, and posed in costumes. May is one of the best-selling German writers of all time, with…
Karl May as Old Shatterhand, in an 1896 photograph by Alois Schiesser
Bärentöter (center), the Henrystutzen (right) and the Silberbüchse (left), in the Karl May Museum.