Caught at sea
Caught at sea. Crime novel by Karl May is an early novel by Karl May .
Text history
The first edition of this text took place in 1877/78 in the magazine Frohe Stunden. Entertainment papers for everyone . In some issues the novel bears the headline Captured on the High Seas .
Around 1879 the novel was published for the first time in book form as Volume 50 of the Heimat und Fremde series together with Berlepsch's story Das Muttermal at the publishing house of Morwitz & Co. in Philadelphia . This was probably a pirated print. The band captured the title on the high seas. From Karl May .
In 1888 and between 1895 and 1897 the story was named Schloß Wildauen. Criminal novel by Carl May published again in the magazine Deutsche Gartenlaube .
In 1921 the text was - edited - included in the collected works of the Karl-May-Verlag , under the title Captain Kaiman in Volume 19 of the same name .
A licensed edition entitled Captain Caiman. The story by Karl May was printed from September 12 to December 31, 1929 in the Thurgauer Volkszeitung .
In 1961 and 1962 two novel booklets , Deadly-gun and Piraten der Prärie , were published under license by Moewig Verlag. In 1963 these were bound together with two other booklets under the title Halbblut / Kapitän Kaiman .
A licensed edition of the 19th volume Captain Kaiman was published for the first time in 1964 in the series Karl May Taschenbücher .
In the series Karl May anniversary edition of the Karl May publishing house , volume 19 appeared for the first time in 1966 and ten years later under the series title Karl May bestseller .
Further licensed editions of the volume for book clubs were published by the Donauland book club in 1966, the Welt im Buch community in 1967 and the German Book Federation in 1968 .
In 1971 the Karl May Society published the volume Frohe Stunden as a private print in the series Erstdrucke Karl Mays in facsimile editions , which also contained a reprint of Auf der See prisoner .
From 1982 the novel appeared three times under the title Winnetou and the Detective , edited and edited by Walter Hansen and Siegfried Augustin : 1982 by Heyne Verlag, 1992 by Chemnitzer Verlag and 1995 as Volume 2 of the Rote Reihe by Nymphenburger Verlag .
1983 appeared captain Cayman in the series Karl May - Masterpieces from the Karl-May-Verlag.
The original text has been in a modernized form since 1998 in Volume 80 of the Collected Works , Captured on the Sea .
In the 1990s Weltbild Verlag published the volume Captured on the Sea in a modernized form in the series Weltbild Collector's Edition .
In 2000 the first print was published again in the reprint volume Frohe Stunden of the Karl May Society.
An edited version with the title Der Kaperkapitän is included in the special volume Ein Lesebuch published by Karl May Verlag in 2012 .
content
Prince Max von Schönberg-Wildauen is accused of murdering the Berlin jeweler Wallerstein. To escape prison he fled to America , where he became the captain of the " Swallow " and a well-known pirate hunter under the name Max Parker .
The brother of his fiancée Adele, Richard von Treskow, believes in the prince's innocence and sets out to find the real culprit. Their trail also leads to America. There von Treskow found support from various famous western men and the Indian chief Winnetou .
Together, the black captain (a pirate), his lover Clairon (the "Miss Admiral") and his factotum Jean Letrier are chased through the prairies and finally taken and captured on the high seas. Max, Treskow and the western men involved (including Winnetou) transfer them to Germany on the ship "Alba" to rehabilitate Max there.
Max's innocence is proven, he can return with honor and be reconciled with his father.
Others
For the book edition of his travel novels, May Auf der See caught again used Old Surehand II in volume 15 . The first chapter "At Mother Thick" and the third chapter "A Corsair" each contain a part of the novel. This and other older texts are integrated into the Surehand trilogy through a framework plot ( Old Shatterhand returns to Mutter Thicks' bar, where those present tell stories about the “dark and bloody grounds” over beer ).
Settings
In 1985 Südwestfunk produced a 139-part and very faithful radio play version of this novel under the title Wildauen Castle . The radio play was released on 2 CDs by Pidax-Film in September 2014.
Film adaptations
In 1967 a film adaptation was planned under the title Winnetou and Kapitän Kaiman with Harald Reinl (director) and the actors Pierre Brice , Karin Dor , Harald Leipnitz , Joachim Fuchsberger, Mario Girotti and Eddi Arent . Fred Denger wrote the script . The project was not carried out.
Remarks
- ↑ S. Augustin: Introduction . 2000, p. 22.
- ↑ Plaul / Klußmeier, p. 51, no. 87.
- ↑ In some issues the author was named "Karl May".
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Deutsche_Gartenlaube
- ↑ Plaul / Klußmeier, p. 124 f., No. 194 and p. 196 f., Nos. 266.1 / 266P / 266.2.
- ↑ Hermesmeier / Schmatz, p. 136, no. GW19.
- ↑ In later parts of the imprint it was called "Kaimann" instead of "Kaiman".
- ↑ Hermesmeier / Schmatz, pp. 403 f., No. LC13.
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Clairon
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Schloss_Wildauen_(Hörspiel)
literature
- Andreas Graf : Winnetou in the "crime novel". Aspects of contemporary topicality in Karl May's early novel “Captured on the Sea” . In: Heinz Ludwig Arnold (Hrsg.): Karl May. Text + criticism Sonderband. 1987.
- Hainer Plaul: Illustrated Karl May Bibliography. With the participation of Gerhard Klußmeier . Edition Leipzig 1988. ISBN 3-361-00145-5 (or) KG Saur Munich – London – New York – Paris 1989. ISBN 3-598-07258-9
- Christoph F. Lorenz: The repeated history. The early novel “Caught on the Sea” and its meaning in Karl May's work . In: Yearbook of the Karl May Society 1994 , pp. 160–187. ( Online version )
- Siegfried Augustin: Introduction . In: Karl May. Happy hours. Entertainment papers for everyone. Reprint of the Karl May Society , Hamburg 2000, pp. 7–36.
- Wolfgang Hermesmeier, Stefan Schmatz : Karl May Bibliography 1913–1945. Karl-May-Verlag Bamberg – Radebeul 2000. ISBN 3780201577
- Ekkehard Bartsch: Caught at sea. In: Gert Ueding (Ed.): Karl-May-Handbuch. Publishing house Königshausen & Neumann GmbH Würzburg 2001, p. 304 f. ISBN 3-8260-1813-3
- Wolfgang Hermesmeier, Stefan Schmatz: From Home to Foreign Countries : The First Karl May Book Edition? In: Karl May & Co. No. 128/2012 .
Web links
- The original text online on the Karl May Society website .
- The entry in the book database .