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
Winnetou
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Winnetou is a fictional Native American hero of several novels written in German by Karl May, one of the best-selling German writers of all time with about 200 million copies worldwide, including the
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…Richard Plöhn". Most pseudonymously or anonymously published works have been identified. For the novels set in America, May created the characters of Winnetou, the wise chief of the Apaches, and Old Shatterhand, Winnetou's white blood brother. Another series of novels were set in the Ottoman Empire. In these…
Cover of 1893 edition
Winnetou's Death or Winnetou's Ascension, cover of Winnetou III by Sascha Schneider (1904)