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Karl Friedrich May (/ maɪ / 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. He also wrote poetry, a play, and composed music.
Karl May film adaptations are films based on stories and characters by German author Karl May (1842–1912). The characters Old Shatterhand, Winnetou, and Kara Ben Nemsi are very famous in Central Europe.
Jul 25, 2022 · Zane Grey published more than 90 books, far fewer than Karl May’s 300 or so. During his writing career, Grey’s books were adapted as motion pictures. Riders of the Purple Sage, The Lone Star Ranger and other Zane Grey novels were made into feature films between 1916 and the 1940s, an opportunity that Karl May never had during his lifetime.
Feb 24, 2017 · The author wrote 70 books, which sold more than 200 million copies worldwide. At the beginning of the 20th century, his characters were as famous as J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter or Luke...
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).
Karl Friedrich May was a German writer best known for his adventure novels set in the American Old West. His main protagonists are Winnetou and Old Shatterhand. May set similar books in the Orient and Middle East (in which the main protagonists were Kara Ben Nemsi and Hadschi Halef Omar), Latin America and Germany.
Some of the best known of his more than 60 works are Der Schatz im Silbersee (1894; “The Treasure in the Silver Lake”), Durch die Wüste (1892; In the Desert), Winnetou, 3 vol. (1893; Eng. trans., 1977); Ardistan und Dschinnistan (1909; Ardistan and Djinnistan), and the autobiography Mein Leben und Streben (1910; “My Life and Struggle”).
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