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Karl May
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German author (1842–1912)
Karl May was a German author from the 19th and early 20th centuries who wrote adventure novels that became enormously popular in Germany and beyond. His works, particularly those featuring the character Old Shatterhand in the American West and the Middle East, made him one of the most widely read authors of his time and left a lasting impact on how many Europeans imagined distant cultures and places.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 25 February 1842
- Died
- 30 March 1912
- Works
- 441
Top works
- Am Marterpfahl
- יורשי וינאטו
- Winnetous erben
- Ṿineṭu ṿe-Yad ha-nefets
- Mein Leben und Streben
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Germany
- Active from
- 1842-02-25
- Active to
- 1912-03-30
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- Listeners
- 3,157
- Total plays
- 223,844
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Karl Friedrich May ( /ˈmaɪ/ my; 25 February 1842 – 30 March 1912) was a popular German writer, noted mainly for adventure novels set in the American Old West, (best known for the characters of Winnetou and Old Shatterhand) and similar books set in the Orient and Middle East (with Kara Ben Nemsi and Hadschi Halef Omar). In addition, he wrote stories set in his native Germany, in China and in South America. May also wrote poetry and a play, and composed music; he was proficient with several musica
Recent publications · Crossref
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Karl
- Family name
- May
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Saxony
- Place of birth
- Hohenstein-Ernstthal
- Place of death
- Radebeul
- Occupation
- writer
- Languages spoken
- German
- Native language
- German
- Notable work
- Winnetou
- Image
- Karl May edit.jpg
- Work location
- Dresden
- Said to be same as
- Old Shatterhand
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- Commons category
- Karl May
- date of birth
- 1842-02-25
- date of death
- 1912-03-30
- Commons gallery
- Karl May
- Commons Creator page
- Karl May
- birth name
- Karl Friedrich May
- writing language
- German
- start of work period
- 1881-00-00
- P8168
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- related category
- Category:Works by Karl May
- name in native language
- Karl May
- archives at
- Karl May Museum Radebeul
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Works in European collections
23 objects attributed to Karl May, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
Through Wild Kurdistan
Az inka öröksége
Regény
A sziklafészek
Az olajkirály
Winnetou
Regény
Der Schatz im Silbersee
A haramia
Revenge
Winnetou aranya
Hajsza az aranyért
A szerencsét hozó almásderes
A szenteste
A szkipetárok földjén
A fekete táltos
Gesammelte Reiseromane : (Reiseerlebnisse) (Reiseerzählungen), 3
A félvér
Elbeszélések
A sziklafészek
Az olajkirály
Gesammelte Reiseromane : (Reiseerlebnisse) (Reiseerzählungen), 18
Gesammelte Reiseromane : (Reiseerlebnisse) (Reiseerzählungen), 1
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Encyclopedic overview
Karl Friedrich May (/maɪ/ MY, German: [kaʁl ˈmaɪ] ; 25 February 1842 – 30 March 1912) was a German author known for writing often in first-person narrative about travels and adventures, mostly set in the American Old West or the Orient and Middle East, but also in Latin America, China and within Germany. For a time he insisted that he actually had travelled to the West and was called Old Shatterhand there, while in the Ottoman Empire he was called Kara Ben Nemsi, and posed in costumes.
May is one of the best-selling German writers of all time, with about 200 million copies sold worldwide. A series of Karl May film adaptations was successful in the 1960s.
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