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	Cowboys & Indians: The Strange Life and Legacy of Karl May
		Karl May (1842-1912) was a prolific author and a favorite read of many famous Germans, including Albert Einstein, Albert Schweitzer, and Herman Hesse.
		According to the Karl May Press based in Bamberg, his works have sold over 100 million copies across the globe, and his 60 novels have been translated into over 30 languages, including a recent series in Chinese.
		May was born in Hohenstein-Ernstthal to an extremely poor family of 14 children, and was one of only five to survive infancy.
	www.cowboysindians.com /articles/archives/0999/karl_may.html (1109 words)

	Karl May - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		May was born into a poor family and - according to his autobiography - suffered from blindness shortly after birth, probably due to malnutrition.
		May's house in Radebeul near Dresden in Germany has been turned into a museum devoted to Karl May and his anthropological collection of artifacts of native American Indian origin.
		May himself is the subject of a 1974 film by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Karl_May (1092 words)

	My Life and My Efforts, Autobiography by Karl May
		Rudolf Lebius is portrayed by Karl May as a villain of the worst kind, a man who changes his political loyalties for money and specialises in flmailing people, after digging up dirt from their past, in order to control and use them and, most of all, in order to extort money.
		Karl May's grandmother is of particular interest, because he writes that she had inspired the character of the princess Marah Durimeh, whom May regarded as the female counterpart in the Orient to the Indian chief Winnetou in America.
		May demanded that his original manuscript should be returned to him, but only those pages of the lost chapter which had been ignored in their entirety, as well as most of the last third of the novel, had survived.
	ftp.sunet.se /pub/etext/gutenberg/etext01/kmlae10h.htm (21048 words)

	Karl Mays "My Life and My Efforts"
		Rudolf Lebius is portrayed by Karl May as a villain of the worst kind, a man who changes his political loyalties for money and specialises in flmailing people, after digging up dirt from their past, in order to control and use them and, most of all, in order to extort money.
		Karl May's grandmother is of particular interest, because he writes that she had inspired the character of the princess Marah Durimeh, whom May regarded as the female counterpart in the Orient to the Indian chief Winnetou in America.
		May demanded that his original manuscript should be returned to him, but only those pages of the lost chapter which had been ignored in their entirety, as well as most of the last third of the novel, had survived.
	www.karl-may-gesellschaft.de /kmg/sprachen/englisch/primlit/bio/leben/index.htm (4763 words)

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		For the author, Karl May was the ticket for endless journeys into the wild west and the mysterious east.
		May confirmed the existence of Indian culture within his stories and showed this in the examples of the power of the chief.
		Karl May uses the terms prey and pipe as an indication of the rituals of the savages.
	www.brg-pichelmayergasse.at /Projekte/Amerika/htmle/karlmaye.htm (2884 words)

	Karl May's Blindness
		When Karl May's mother had gone to Dresden to study midwifery she also sought help for her son: "She acquired through her diligence and her quiet, deeply earnest character the patronage of both professors Grenser and Haase, and told them about me, her miserable, blind and yet mentally so lively boy.
		May had described the suffering of one of his sisters who had been affected by smallpox so badly that the doctor had to make an incision on her face to find the mouth so that she could drink.
		Karl May mentions in his biography bread, potatoes and apples, which were consumed in the family.
	www.angelfire.com /va/karlmay/blind.html (2149 words)

	BrothersJudd.com - Review of Karl May's Winnetou
		May, whose books combine American West settings with heroes seemingly culled from medieval myth, was the favorite author of folks as diverse as Albert Schweitzer, Albert Einstein, Herman Hesse, and Adolph Hitler.
		May's vision of the natives is straight out of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the myth of the Noble Savage, romanticizing their culture and ethics, and giving the story an arc of almost Wagnerian tragedy.
		To read Karl May's stories is to realize that for European liberals, it was the American cowboys who were the bad guys, the Indians who were the good guys, and, of course, the ultimate hero was the invincible Teutonic gone native, Shatterhand.
	www.brothersjudd.com /index.cfm/fuseaction/reviews.detail/book_id/295 (853 words)

	Karl May (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Karl May wurde in der DDR zum Nazi-Ideologen gestempelt, der niedere Instinkte anspreche und den Imperialismus rechtfertige.
		Karl May ist auch für Jungen begeisternd, das Geschlecht ist ja nun nicht alles, Kinder müssen erst einmal das große Leben, das weite Land, die Gefahr, die treue Freundschaft und die wilden Tier wollen und erst in zweiter Linie ihr jeweiliges Geschlecht zum Ausgangspunkt nehmen, von dem aus sie die gesamte Sensation genießen.
		Karl May verleiht seinem Winnetou einen Ansatz zu weiblichen Zügen. Er schreibt nieder, was andere Schriftsteller nur in Metaphern oder vergleichender Analyse darstellen: die Weiblichkeit des Fremden.
	www.brg-pichelmayergasse.at /Projekte/Amerika/html/fremdsein.htm (3070 words)

	Karl May
		Karl May was born in Hohenstein-Ernstthal/Sachsen, the son of Heinrich August May, a weaver, and Christiane Wilhelmine.
		Eventually May's career was ruined when he was convicted of the theft of a watch, which, he claimed, was lent to him.
		May himself did not look like his alter ego, Old Shatterhand, he was a "delicate, reserved old gentleman with a white moustache and imperial, and a rather long, wavy hairstyle that had been popular in about 1870.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /karlmay.htm (1832 words)

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		I had seen movies and read books by Karl May and had watched his movies where Pierre Brice, a French actor who played Winnetou (text is in German), the famous character from the May books.
		Karl May wrote on the Wild West but never got past Buffalo, N.Y. Karl May wrote on the Wild West but never got past Buffalo, N.Y. LIECHTENSTEIN - In front of Ye Olde West flsmith shop, there is the requisite horse-hitch and the dance hall-saloon-hotel next door.
		May's roommate accuses him of stealing his watch, pipe and cigarette holder, and he is sentenced to six weeks in jail.
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	Literary Encyclopedia: Karl May
		May was released eight months early, in November 1868, but soon afterwards the uncertainty regarding his career as a writer, or any other career, led him again to play the impostor.
		May’s late novels, in spite of their commendable aspirations, reek of kitschy sentimentalism and melodramatic symbolism, aspects which account for the lack of interest in these works.
		Copies of May’s texts are typically read by more than one reader; it is fair to assume that over the last 130 years most Germans have read at least one or part of one of the novels and short stories, and many have read scores of his texts.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5731 (2294 words)

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		Karl May ist einer der erfolgreichsten Autoren von Kolportageromanen und Trivialliteratur des 19.
		Karl Mays letzte Lebensjahre sind gezeichnet verschiedenen Prozessen in denen ihm nachgewiesen werden dass seine Reisegeschichten erfunden sind.
		Karl May trat auch als Komponist in Erscheinung.
	www.uni-protokolle.de /Lexikon/Karl_May.html (807 words)

	Village Radebeul (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Karl May's hero-figures belong to it, and nowhere are his stories more alive than in that museum of Radebeul, which carries his name.
		As Winnetou became a symbol figure through Karl May's books and the later films, so the Chiricahua chieftain Cochise ows his legendary place in history to a series of specific events.
		For a youth magazine May perfected a figure from earlier narrations to the young and noble-minded chieftain so that it became the favorite figure since "Winnetou 1" (1893) and still is today.
	www.radebeul.de /engl/legend.html (904 words)

	ChessBase.com - Chess News - The man who saved Fischer-Spassky
		His father owned the Karl May Verlag which published the books of an author (Karl May) whose name is known to almost every adult German but is virtually unknown in the English-speaking world.
		May vividly described the American West, which he had never seen, and like no other person he shaped the average German youth's view of the West and the American Indian.
		The owner of the Karl May Verlag is also well-known for another thing: Lothar Schmid has one of the largest and most valuable collections of chess books in the world.
	www.chessbase.com /newsdetail.asp?newsid=950 (695 words)

	Karl May And D.I.D.
		May was expelled from the seminary on the 28 January 1860.
		Karl May was sentenced to four years imprisonment (from the 3 May 1870 to 2 May 1874) at the prison establishment Waldheim.
		Karl May described such relation very nicely in his book 'Winnetou' when the dying Winnetou confessed to Old Shatterhand that he was a believer, even though the two never discussed religion at Winnetou's request during all the years of their friendship.
	www.angelfire.com /va/karlmay/did.html (9386 words)

	Karl May USA
		Karl May USA serves to introduce the American audience to Karl May, his works, and future related film projects.
		Karl May’s most popular work is Winnetou™, the story of a young Apache chief as told by his white friend and blood brother, OLD SHATTERHANDÔ.
		May’s main characters all fight for human dignity, love, and peace; yet, every page of his books leaves the reader their individual way of interpretation of his message.
	www.karlmayusa.com (563 words)

	Biographie: Karl May, 1842-1912 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		May erhält eine Anstellung als fester Mitarbeiter des Stuttgarter Verlags "Spemanns Illustrierte Knabenzeitung: Der gute Kamerad".
		May unternimmt erstmals eine Reise in den Orient.
		Lebius veröffentlicht in "Die Zeugen Karl May und Klara May - ein Beitrag zur Kriminalgeschichte unserer Zeit" belastende Gerichtsakten Karl Mays.
	www.dhm.de /lemo/html/biografien/MayKarl (386 words)

	Karl May (1842-1912) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Karl May was born in Hohenstein-Ermstthal as the fourth of fifteen children.
		When he finally visited the USA himself in later years it was clear that the country was compeletely different from what he had imagined.
		May kept up appearances and wrote that his visit had brought him great new ideas for future stories.
	www.xs4all.nl /~androom/dead/karlmay.htm (139 words)

	Prisma: Karl May
		Karl May stammt aus allerärmsten Verhältnissen, und in seinen Romanen spiegelt sich jenes aufregende Leben, daß sich der arme Sachse immer gewünscht hat.
		Karl May kommt als Sohn bettelarmer Webersleute zur Welt.
		Gegen Ende des Jahres taucht in Chemnitz ein Seminarlehrer Lohse auf (May), der sich in einem Hotelzimmer mit Pelzmänteln und ähnlichem austatten läßt, um diese dann dem angeblich im Nachbarzimmer befindlichen Herrn Direktor zur Kenntnisnahme vorzulegen.
	www.prisma-online.de /tv/person.html?pid=karl_may (344 words)

	Books Contact
		Karl May continues to belong to the most-read and most-translated authors of the German language, nearly a century after his demise.
		May’s Red Indian tales belong to the classics in German literature, yet he and his legendary protagonists in the American Wild West are virtually unknown outside of the German speaking area.
		Over twenty of Karl May's shortest tales from the freezing Arctic Circle to the tropical South Seas; from his home, the Villa Shatterhand to Ardistan, a mythical place in the Orient, with interludes from a wide selection of his texts.
	afkm.homestead.com /BooksContact.html (2817 words)

	Karl May - Life and Works
		For generations Karl May (1842-1912) has ranked high as one of the best loved and most widely read German writers.
		No less famous than Karl May's western heroes Winnetou and Old Shatterhand are their legendary rifles, on permanent display at the Karl May Museum: the "Silver Rifle", the weighty "Bear Killer", and the "Henry Rifle".
		Since early 1995, upon complete restoration, the museum also houses Karl May's original STUDY, his LIBRARY, and his RECEPTION ROOM, all reflecting the feel of the early twentieth century.
	www.karl-may-stiftung.de /museum/engl/may.html (197 words)

	wais: US: American Cherokee Indian Population and Karl May April 2005
		The novels of May were very popular in Germany, but I doubt his books have been translated into English.
		Nevertheless, the spirit of deportation befind the Indian relocation act with the emphasis on the superiority of the white settlers is indeed very reminiscent of the Nazi policy in Russia.
		I gained the impression that Hitler had read him, and as a result, formed the opinion that the U.S. was only a primitive society populated only by cowboys and Indians, not an industrial nation on a par with the whole of Europe.Of course, the Führer's travels were very limited and never took him there.
	www.stanford.edu /group/wais/ztopics/week040105/us_050401_cherokeeindianpop.htm (1131 words)

	Karl May -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Known during his lifetime only to a small group of socialists and revolutionaries, Karl Marx wrote books now considered by Communists all over the world to be the source of absolute truth on matters of economics, philosophy, and politics.
		His distinctive contribution was a radical change in the direction of theology from a 19th-century orientation toward progress and from optimistic liberalism to an orthodoxy that had to cope with the grim realities of the 20th century, especially two world wars.
		The modern city of Naples may be as vulnerable to Mt. Vesuvius as Pompeii.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9051566 (637 words)

	Karl May movies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Karl May movies are movies based on stories and characters by German author Karl May (1842-1912).
		The movies Old Shatterhand (Apaches Last Battle) and "Winnetou und sein Freund Old Firehand" (Thunder at the Border) are not based on any of May's works, but were completely invented by the screenwriters.
		Michael Petzel: "Karl May Filmbuch", Karl-May-Verlag, Bamberg, ISBN 3780201534
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Karl_May_movies (543 words)

	Karl May Wiki
		Dalam buku-bukunya, Karl May sering menggunakan gaya bercerita yang dalam dunia sastra disebut Sudut Pandang Orang Pertama.
		Kami mengundang seluruh penggemar Karl May di Indonesia untuk menyumbangkan pengetahuan dengan menyunting serta membuat artikel yang berhubungan dengan hal-hal tersebut di atas.
		Tak ada tulisan yang akan ditolak, kecuali yang mengandung unsur pornografi, tak berhubungan dengan Karl May, atau mengandung unsur SARA yang tidak pada tempatnya.
	id.karlmay.wikia.com /wiki/Halaman_Utama (527 words)

	The Swastika and the Nazis. Page 12. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		He was particularly found of the adventure stories of Karl May, a German who wrote about the American frontier.
		May, who never visited the United States, concocted a strange "Western" language which the heroes in his novels spoke with a Teutonized Texan drawl.
		May's books sold by the thousands, and a Old Shatterhand, the main character in May's novels, became the hero of a whole generation of German boys.
	www.intelinet.org /swastika/swasti12.htm (217 words)

	Karl May About Us
		Karl May once wrote, that his books are meant for all ages.
		Karl May was called all the time a "Hochstapler" [confidence trickster], liar, criminal, immoral person, even being mentaly sick.
		The tragedy of Karl May as a writer was that he never had been awarded during his life time a literary price, which he so richly deserved.
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