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Karl May

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Also known as D. Jam, Prinz Muhamel Lautréamont, Ramon Diaz de la Escosura, Emma Pollmer, Karl Hohenthal, Ernst von Linden, Hobble-Frank, Franz Langer

German author (1842–1912)

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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
audio dramaaudiobookhas german audio playshas german audiobooks

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Listeners · Last.fm

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

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Works in European collections

23 objects attributed to Karl May, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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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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