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. Would you like to suggest this photo as the cover photo for this article? Some of the shorter stories were later published in anthologies, for example, Der Karawanenwürger und andere Erzählungen (1894), Humoresken und Erzählungen (1902) and Erzgebirgische Dorfgeschichten (1903).
Wann sehe ich dich wieder, du lieber, lieber Winnetou? "[26] Hitler's admiration for May led the German writer Klaus Mann to accuse May of having been a form of "mentor" for Hitler. In 1963, when copyright ended, the Press began commercialising May's works.

"[36], May's poem Ave Maria (1896) was set to music in at least 19 versions. [15] Max von der Grün said he read May as a young boy. Another festival has been conducted on a rock stage in Rathen, in Saxon Switzerland near Radebeul in 1940 and then since 1984.[38]. Several actors were employed, including Lex Barker (Old Shatterhand, Kara Ben Nemsi, Karl Sternau), Pierre Brice (Winnetou), Gojko Mitić (Winnetou), Stewart Granger (Old Surehand), Milan Srdoč (Old Wabble) and Ralf Wolter (Sam Hawkens, Hadschi Halef Omar, André Hasenpfeffer). Karl Friedrich May (/maɪ/ MY; German: [kaʁl maɪ̯] (listen); 25 February 1842 – 30 March 1912) was a German author.

He is one of the best-selling German writers of all time, with about 200,000,000 copies worldwide. [10], In his later works (after 1900) May left the adventure fiction genre to write symbolic novels with religious and pacifistic content. Opposite the house is the International Karl May Heritage Center ("Karl-May-Begegnungsstätte"), which is used for events and special exhibitions.

This project was initiated by Hans Wollschläger and Hermann Wiedenroth in 1987. May demonstrated some emotional instability during his travels.[5]. It looks like we don't have any Plot Summaries for this title yet. During his school years, he received instruction in music and composition. The "Karl May Society" (KMG), founded on 22 March 1969, is the largest organisation, with approximately 1800 members. The press is exclusive to May's work and subsidiary literature. "[35] The best known titles are the Orient Cycle (volumes 1 - 6) and the Winnetou-Trilogy (volumes 7 - 9).

The foundation established the Karl May Museum to maintain the Villa Shatterhand, the estates, the collections and May's tomb. It looks like we don't have any Plot Summaries for this title yet. The film score by Martin Böttcher and the landscape of Yugoslavia are associated with the movies. On 22 March 1912, May was invited by the Academic Society for Literature and Music in Vienna to present a lecture entitled Empor ins Reich der Edelmenschen ("Upward to the Realm of Noble Men"). [48][49] In 1960, the Karl May Foundation received the Karl May Press.[49]. May managed entertainment papers such as Schacht und Hütte ("Mine and Mill") and continued to publish his own works such as Geographische Predigten ("Collected Travel Stories") (1876). In 1891, Friedrich Ernst Fehsenfeld offered to print the Deutscher Hausschatz "Son of the Bear Hunter" stories as books. [citation needed], With few exceptions, May had not visited the places he described, but he compensated successfully for his lack of direct experience through a combination of creativity, imagination, and documentary sources including maps, travel accounts and guidebooks, as well as anthropological and linguistic studies. In 1880, May began the Orient Cycle, which ran, with interruption, until 1888.

Different novel revisions have been played on outdoor stages since the 1940s. [16] Seabury Press, New York, began publishing English translations by Michael Shaw in 1977.

It took something away from me. [45], May's life has been the subject of screen works, novels and a stage play, including, May was copied or parodied during his lifetime. It looks like we don't have a Synopsis for this title yet. In October 1888, May moved to Kötzschenbroda (a part of Radebeul) and 1891 to Villa Agnes in Oberlößnitz. The Karl May Festival in Bad Segeberg has been held every summer since 1952 and in Lennestadt-Elspe since 1958. [13] Many of them were published by Fehsenfeld. [citation needed] The National Socialists in particular tried to use May's popularity and his work for their purposes.[20].
We don't know when somebody will attack or when they will come to steal our horses. May also wrote novels set in Latin America and Germany, poetry, a play, and composed music; he was a proficient player of several musical instruments. [20] However, as told by Albert Speer, "when faced by seemingly hopeless situations, he [Hitler] would still reach for these stories," because "they gave him courage like works of philosophy for others or the Bible for elderly people. According to the register of deaths, the cause was cardiac arrest, acute bronchitis and asthma, but according to Ralf Harder from the Karl-May-Stiftung, May's death certificate does not include the cause of death. [41] In 1988, Der Schatz im Silbersee was read by Gert Westphal and published as an audiobook.

The best-known volume is Der Schatz im Silbersee. By 1945 there were 65 volumes. In 1959, due to censorship in the Soviet occupation zone and East Germany, the Press moved to Bamberg (Germany). We don't use technology and we try to follow Indian traditions. In 1891 Der Schatz im Silbersee ("The Treasure of Silver Lake") was published. Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Synopsis submission guide. He was arrested, but when he was transported to a crime scene during a judicial investigation, he escaped and fled to Bohemia, where he was detained for vagrancy.

Once again, May was insolvent. ")[6] In 1908, Karl and Klara May spent six weeks in North America. May became deeply absorbed in the stories he wrote and the lives of his characters. [15] His most popular translations are Czech, Hungarian and Dutch.