Marlies Bugmann
Karl May translator
Gustavo Rojo
Played Winnetou
in Berlin; acted in
several Karl May movies; more than seventy years of acting career.
Reiner Boller's biography of the simpatico and famous actor -- the 1001 adventures of his life -- is now available.
(German only)
2012 - Endzeit und Neuanfang The latest work, delving into the knowledge of the Mayan Civilization, by Walter-Jörg Langbein, Karl May aficionado and best-selling German author. He travels the world in search of answers to the great mysteries on our planet--and beyond.
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English language works by Karl May (1842 - 1912)
Tales of the Wild West and the Orient, with Winnetou, Old Shatterhand,
Old Firehand, Old Death, Old Surehand and Kara Ben Nemsi.
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Winnetou I - -
Winnetou II - -
Winnetou III
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Karl May on facebook
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Walter-Jörg Langbein stellt vor:
Marlies Bugmann, Author, Karl May Translator, Karl May Biographer
Ein Buch Lesen - Karl May: From Savage To Saint
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Reader feedback:
Old Surehand I, Old Surehand, Quest II, Winnetou II
From: Mel Larson, Palatine, Illinois, via facebook, August 2009
'I had an Uncle from Germany, that I was very close with. He only read Karl May and I was always interested
in what was so fascinating about the books. I could never find English translations. When I found
your work I got the sense that you loved the work like he did ...'
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Print: $16.80 Download: $8.00 During an unusual bullfight in Buenos Aires, German zoologist Dr Morgenstern from Jueterbogk and his servant Fritze from Stralau on Lake Rummelsburg make the acquaintance of Father Jaguar. The two German adventurers travel through Argentina to unearth the fossilized remains of dynosaurs but are ambushed and imprisoned by enemy Indians and a group of revolutionaries fighting against the government. Famous Father Jaguar rescues the two travellers; Morgenstern and Fritze join his group of yerbateros for the ride through the Gran Chaco. Along the way, two mysterious Peruvians, Anciano and Haukaropora, join them, as they have the same destination—Peru. When the yerbateros clash with the revolutionaries in a bloody skirmish, Father Jaguar comes face to face with his mortal enemy. However, the villainous gambusino escapes. The pursuit leads the yerbateros, as well as Morgenstern and Fritze high into the South American Cordilleras where the mythical gold treasure of the ancient Inca rulers is said to be hidden.
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Download: $17.50 Hardcover Print: $36.95 Savage To Saint, first English biography of Karl May with emphasis on his Wild West adventures, focus on Winnetou and Old Shatterhand, and work interpretation based on the more than 100-year-long Winnetou best-seller; and Inn-Nu-Woh To Merhameh, an eventful voyage to exotic locations around the globe, a collection of twenty of the shortest stories by Karl May, including many excerpts from a cross-section of his works, written and published between 1874 and 1912.
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Download: $19.00 Hardcover Print: $39.95 Complete Winnetou Trilogy. The adventures of Old Shatterhand, the young German adventurer, and Winnetou, the young Apache chief.
During his first journey into the Wild West, a young greenhorn—Karl May, the adventurer—meets a young Apache, called Winnetou, while performing his job as a railroad surveyor in the Wild West. The first encounter is not at all amicable and during a violent Indian attack, the young German is near-fatally wounded. He is taken to the Apache pueblo to be nursed back to health, destined to die by torture at the stake…
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Download: $17.00 Hardcover Print: $35.50 A note from his blood brother Winnetou calls Old Shatterhand to the desolate Llano Estacado. The Comanche are on the warpath and with hundreds of warriors plan to attack Bloody Fox’ secret oasis hideaway in the desert. En route to the desert, Old Surehand joins them and when the cactus trap falls shut behind the enemy Indians, Old Surehand and Apanatshka meet…
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Print: $18.80 Download: $9.00 First English biography of Karl May with emphasis on his Wild West adventures, focus on Winnetou and Old Shatterhand, and work interpretation based on the more than 100-year-long Winnetou best-seller.
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Print: $18.80 Download: $9.00 Inn-Nu-Woh, the Sioux chief, saves a young girl from a Bengal tiger; the Afrikander rescues his beloved bride from the Zulu; Anoui, the ehri of Papeete snatches his betrothed from the clutches of the evil missionaries; the Hoei-foei foils a treachery of the tjin-ti-tjung-fu in Burma; a troika carries the romisto and his lover towards a Siberian prison; Pent, uncle Saette and Neete go after the silver thief under the wintry Northern Lights of Lapland, and Merhameh, the merciful, brings peace to eastern Ardistan, a place deep in the Oriental hinterland.
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Print: $16.80 Download: $8.00 Old Shatterhand and his blood brother Winnetou, the Apache chief, are on the trail of robbers who have stolen an entire trunk full of gold nuggets. After rescuing Carpio, Shatterhand’s old school friend in the wintry Rocky Mountains, they find shelter in a Pa-Ware, the extraordinary geological feature that becomes the stage for a life-changing experience with a grizzly bear.
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Print: $6.95 A day in the life of Old Shatterhand aka Kara ben Nemsi aka Karl May, a story of the Wild West, and a story of the Orient.
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Download: $2.50 A day in the life of Old Shatterhand aka Kara ben Nemsi aka Karl May, a story of the Wild West, and a story of the Orient.
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Print: $16.80 Download: $8.00 Winnetou, Old Shatterhand and their mysterious new friend Old Surehand are on a desperate mission into the Llano Estacado to defend Bloody Fox’ oasis hideaway against an attack by enemy Comanche.
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Print: $16.80 Download: $8.00 The mystery surrounding Old Surehand and Apanatshka deepens. Old Shatterhand and Winnetou head a group in pursuit of dangerous villains to Devils Head, where the ‘general’ is unmasked.
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Print: $17.95 Download: $8.00 During his first journey into the Wild West, a young greenhorn--Karl May, the adventurer--meets a young Apache, called Winnetou, while performing his job as a railroad surveyor in the Wild West. The first encounter is not at all amicable and during a violent Indian attack, the young German is near-fatally wounded. He is taken to the Apache pueblo to be nursed back to health, destined to die by torture at the stake…
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Print: $17.95 Download: $8.00 Bizarre circumstances lead Winnetou, Old Shatterhand and their friend Old Death on a ride through the Mapimi desert; this will be the last journey for one of them. Later, when Old Shatterhand rescues a young boy from a disastrous oil fire in New Venango his heroic deed has far-reaching implications. The blood brothers cross paths again in Nebraska where they and Old Firehand must face the cruel white Indian chief Parranoh…
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Print: $17.95 Download: $8.00 Old Shatterhand meets Sans-Ear and they team up to save a train from being derailed and robbed by the treacherous Comanche. When they meet Winnetou unexpectedly, they continue their pursuit of the villains into the Sacramento Valley and the famous goldfields of California, but the ‘deadly dust’ demands a sacrifice. While undertaking a journey into the Rocky Mountains, Old Shatterhand makes the acquaintance of an undercover policeman, Fat Walker. Their trip is cut short when they come upon the burnt-out wreck of another train. Winnetou, Old Shatterhand and their new friend trap the railtroublers, and then embark upon a mercy dash to save what can be saved of Helldorf settlement. However, they are too late—when Winnetou and Old Shatterhand descend into the crater on Hancock Mountain to free the captive settlers, disaster strikes. Old Shatterhand returns to Nugget-tsil where a twist of fate sends him on his final hunt for Santer.
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Print: $11.25 Download: $3.00 The young German globetrotter travels into the Wild West where he meets a young Apache chief. They have a violent first encounter whereby the young greenhorn is near-fatally wounded.
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Print: $11.25 Download: $3.00 Winnetou and Old Shatterhand form a blood brotherhood and spend a wonderful time at the Apache pueblo on Rio Pecos, however, gold-hungry villains stalk Winnetou's father and sister--a treacherous deed changes their lives forever. The hunt begins ...
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Print: $11.25 Download: $3.00 Winnetou and Old Shatterhand fail to meet at the pre-determined place and time. Old Shatterhand becomes shipwrecked and is forced to return to New York where he takes on an assignment as a private detective that leads him deep into Ku Klux Klan territory ...
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Print: $11.25 Download: $3.00 Old Shatterhand is riding into the Wild West once again to meet his blood brother, Winnetou. Along the way he saves a young boy from a disastrous oil fire in New Venango canyon. Little does he know the implications of his heroic deed ...
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Print: $11.25 Download: $3.00 After the disastrous battle in Old Firehand's fortress, the blood brothers were forced to, once again, part company, not knowing for how long this time. When Old Shatterhand meets Sans-Ear, an old Westerner, they foil the plans of a bunch of outlaws to attack the train from the California goldfields. When they are joined by Winnetou, their quest takes them into the Sacramento Valley ...
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Print: $11.25 Download: $3.00 Winnetou, Old Shatterhand and an undercover policeman are on a mission to save both a railroad workers camp and a settlement of German immigrants in the Wild West. But events don't unfold as planned and an enemy bullet finds its mark ...
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Download: FREE A young German travels into the Wild West in search of adventure. Hunting bison, fighting a grizzly and catching wild mustang is only the beginning. When he knocks a despicable drunkard and killer out cold with his fist, he receives his frontiersman’s identity—Old Shatterhand. His first encounter with Red Indians, Mescalero Apache, ends in a skirmish, which escalates into a life or death battle. Near-fatally wounded, he is being nursed back to health by the Apache in the pueblo at Rio Pecos. He and his friends are destined to die at the stake, but he is victorious in a trial by ordeal and the palefaces regain their freedom. When the young Apache chief, Winnetou, forms a blood brotherhood with him, life couldn’t be better as beautiful Nsho-Chi, Winnetou’s sister, is falling in love with Old Shatterhand. But on the way east, a chance encounter with an outlaw by the name of Santer turns into a desperate situation because of a secret gold treasure on Nugget-tsil.  Download for Free |
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Download: FREE Winnetou and Old Shatterhand meet again deep in Ku Klux Klan territory. Bizarre circumstances lead them and their friend Old Death on a ride through the Mapimi desert; this will be the last journey for one of them. Later, when Old Shatterhand rescues a young boy from a disastrous oil fire in New Venango his heroic deed has far-reaching implications. The blood brothers cross paths again in Nebraska where they and Old Firehand must face the cruel white Indian chief Parranoh. Download for Free |
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Download: FREE Old Shatterhand teams up with Sans-Ears, an embittered Westerner on a manhunt. Together, they save a train from being derailed and robbed. When they meet Winnetou, they continue the pursuit of the criminals into California and its famous goldfields. Some time later, while on a rail journey into the Rocky Mountains, Old Shatterhand makes the acquaintance of undercover policeman, Fred Walker. Their trip is cut short when they come upon the burnt-out wreck of another train. Winnetou joins them and together they hunt down the ‘railtroublers’, and then embark upon a mercy dash to save what can be saved of Helldorf settlement. However, they are too late. The Sioux took the settlers captive. When Winnetou and Old Shatterhand descend into the crater on Hancock Mountain to free them, disaster strikes. Old Shatterhand returns to Nugget-tsil where a twist of fate sends him on his final hunt for Santer. Download for Free |
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Download: FREE Comparison of texts between passages from Winnetou III, Old Surehand I and Black Mustang, by Karl May, and those of Commerce Of The Prairies, by Josiah Gregg, to demonstrate how Karl May drew specific details from the German translation of Josiah Gregg's description of the Wild West, for his own adventure tales. Download for Free |
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Print: $21.97 Download: $11.25 A note from his blood brother Winnetou calls Old Shatterhand to the desolate Llano Estacado. The Comanche are on the warpath and with hundreds of warriors plan to attack Bloody Fox’ secret oasis hideaway in the desert. En route to the desert, Old Surehand joins them and when the cactus trap falls shut behind the enemy Indians, Old Surehand and Apanatshka meet…
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Print: $22.73 Download: $11.25 Savage To Saint, first English biography of Karl May with emphasis on his Wild West adventures, focus on Winnetou and Old Shatterhand, and work interpretation based on the more than 100-year-long Winnetou best-seller; and Inn-Nu-Woh To Merhameh, an eventful voyage to exotic locations around the globe, a collection of twenty of the shortest stories by Karl May, including many excerpts from a cross-section of his works, written and published between 1874 and 1912.
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