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Karl Friedrich May ( / maɪ / MY, German: [kaʁl ˈmaɪ] ⓘ; 25 February 1842 – 30 March 1912) was a German author. He is best known for his novels of travels and adventures, set in the American Old West, the Orient, the Middle East, Latin America, China and Germany. He also wrote poetry, a play, and composed music.
Mar 23, 2022 · A 19th-century German author, Karl Friedrich May wrote popular adventure novels about the American West — which later influenced Adolf Hitler. Hitler even wrote in "Mein Kampf" that he so devoured May's books as a child that his grades declined in school.
- Jessica Oconnor
Karl May was a German author of travel and adventure stories for young people, dealing with desert Arabs or with American Indians in the wild West, remarkable for the realistic detail that the author was able to achieve. May, a weaver’s son, was an elementary school teacher until arrested for petty.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Feb 24, 2017 · His character Winnetou was as famous as Harry Potter, but the life of best-selling author Karl May, born 175 years ago, remains shrouded in mystery. What is fact and what is fiction?
Apr 2, 2012 · The Karl May Museum was founded in 1928, by May’s widowed second wife, Klara, and Patty Frank, a former stablehand for Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show.
Karl Friedrich May (also Karol May) was one of the best selling German writers of all time, noted mainly for books 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.
Learn about Karl May, the most popular and most-read German author, who created immortal adventure heroes like Winnetou and Old Shatterhand. Explore his works, from Travel Tales to stories for young people, and his vision of humanism and peace.
