Karl Friedrich May novels and movies have a huge group of fans in Europe
The author Karl F. May belongs to the most renowned German novelists of the nineteenth century. He was given birth to on February 25, 1842 and perished on March 30, 1912. More than 200 million copies of Karl F. May’s novels have been purchased all over the globe. The most popular heroes of Karl Friedrich May’s works are Winnetou and Old Shatterhand. Winnetou is the wise prince of the Apache Tribe, and Old Shatterhand is his white pal.
Between 1912 and 1968 there were turned out 23 movies following Karl F. May’s works. The American performer Lex Barker became very renowned for playing the role of Old Shatterhand. Another well-known Karl May figure is Old Shurehand. The British performer Stewart Granger acted as the character of Old Shurehand in 3 films. Those films were very successful, although some of them only loosely reflecting the original Karl May novels.
The Karl F. May works have been translated into at least forty languages and have been published in a lot of countries. They are well-known even in countries like Bulgaria and the Netherlands. Above 85 novels are included in the German Karl Friedrich May collection, all of which could be offered at the following web book store: http://astore.amazon.de/karl-may-buecher-21.
Novels 1 to 9 have been published to the German public under those headers:
- Band 1: Durch die Wueste
- Band 2: Durchs wilde Kurdistan
- Band 3: Von Bagdad nach Stambul
- Band 4: In den Schluchten des Balkan
- Band 5: Durch das Land der Skipetaren
- Band 6: Der Schut
- Band 7: Winnetou I
- Band 8: Winnetou II
- Band 9: Winnetou III
Karl May wrote the first three Winnetou stories and the three Old Shurehand volumes between 1890 and 1900. They are set in the illustrious Wild West of America. Funny is the actuality that Karl F. May’s first tour to North America happened not before 1908. That journey took him to the Niagra Falls, Buffalo and Albany, but not farther west. Thus his renowned books have arisen from imagination, creativity and factual sources like travel accounts, guide books and maps, as well as anthropological studies.
