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Karl May (German writer)

  • Carl Friedrich May
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May, Karl
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Person
Gender
Male
Date of birth
1842-02-25
Place of birth
Hohenstein-Ernstthal
Date of death
1912-03-30
Place of death
Radebeul

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Karl Friedrich May ( 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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Editions

NameFormatISBNRelease Date
Der Ölprinz (1963 anniversary issue)Hardcover?1963
Der schwarze Mustang (Karl May's illustrierte Werke)Hardcover??
Durchs wilde KurdistanHardcover978-3-7802-0002-0?
Der alte DessauerHardcover?1968
Professor Vitzliputzli und andere ErzählungenHardcover3-7802-0047-3?
WinnetouHardcover??
Old Surehand IIHardcover??
Durch das Land der Skipetaren: ReiserzählungPaperback3-8000-4005-0?
Am Rio de la PlataPaperback3-8000-4012-3?
Der Schatz im SilberseeHardcover??
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24605183
Wikidata ID
Q22714

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