The Best-Selling German Author of All Time

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Karl May (1842-1912), Writer


by MarliesBugmann
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>>> Most German literary critics dismiss his work as second-rate. He never set foot in most of the places he so vividly described in his numerous adventure tales, including the American West, the home of his best-known fictional character, the Apache warrior Winnetou.
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Yet it is Karl May - not Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, not Thomas Mann - who has become the best-selling German author of all time!
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
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• In early 1960s Winnetou and Old Shatterhand had their first appearance on the Silver Screen. From 1962 to 1968, nine movies were made, with Pierre Brice starring as the brave Winnetou, and Lex Barker as the dashing Old Shatterhand. Other cast members, among others, included Elke Sommer, Herbert Lom and Klaus Kinski.
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The Winnetou movies, based on Karl May's novels, and the breathtaking scenes filmed on locations in Croatia - Paklenica, Plitvice Lakes, Kornati archipelago (Silver Lake), rivers Krka, Zrmanja and Cetina, enchanted the world.
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• The Karl May Verlag (Press) in Bamberg, Germany claims over 100 million copies sold worldwide, and there's hardly an adult German alive today who didn't read Karl May's books as a youngster. Every summer there are popular Karl May Festivals and outdoor pageants across Germany and Austria.
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For good or bad, the German image of the North-American Indian is largely based on the books of Karl May (and films based on his books).
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