The spirit of the llano estakado

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The spirit of the Llano estakado is a youth story by the German writer Karl May , which appeared in 1888 in the magazine Der Gute Kamerad . Together with the previous story The Son of the Bear Hunter (1887), the text was published in book form in 1890 under the series title Die Helden des Westens . Within the series of Karl May's Collected Works , this volume bears the title Unter Vultures .

content

Outline of the magazine issue

  • First chapter: Bloody-fox
  • Second chapter: The two "Snuffles"
  • Third chapter: ghostly hour
  • Fourth chapter: In the "Yuavh-Kai"
  • Chapter five: The home of the ghost

Outline book edition

In the book edition, the text was divided into nine chapters. The text changes are comparatively small.

  • First chapter: Bloody-Fox
  • Chapter Two: The Shot in the Forehead
  • Third Chapter: The Two Snuffles
  • Fourth chapter: iron heart
  • Chapter Five: A Spy
  • Chapter six: Witching hour
  • Seventh Chapter: Ben New-Moon
  • Eighth chapter: In the "Singing Valley"
  • Chapter ninth: the ghost's nest

action

The story, set in North America, is about bandits called "The Vultures". The word Llano Estacado means staked plain . In order to cross this dangerous "desert" , most people rely on the stakes that mark the way through the plain. The vultures move the stakes so that travelers are led into the center of the desert and there, almost defenseless from thirst, are robbed. Different heroes try, first individually and then together, to stop the vultures and to save a large caravan that wants to cross the desert.

Important characters in the book are The Snuffles , Iron Heart , Old Shatterhand , Winnetou and the Bear Hunter . The spirit of the Llano Estacado is seemingly a mystical person who kills murderers, thieves and other evil people with one shot through the forehead. Since no one saw the person, a legend arises that it is a spirit who protects the desert from evil.

In Helmers Home, on the edge of the Llano, all kinds of western men meet (Jemmy, Davy, Hobble-Frank, Juggle-Fred, Old Shatterhand). Later they also meet Winnetou. They decide to work together to protect an emigrant train from the villains on its way through the desert. They are supported by the young Comanche Schiba-bigk, who wants to avenge the murder of his father. The Llano vultures are caught and killed one by one.

The "ghost" turns out to be Bloody-Fox, who was found bleeding as a child and without memory in the Llano next to his murdered parents. He knows a secret oasis in the middle of Llano, which is the starting point for his vengeance.

expenditure

Magazine version

The youth story was published from February to September 1888 in the second year of this magazine, comprising 52 numbers, under the erroneous title Der Geist der Llano estakata . The oversight probably goes back to the publisher Wilhelm Spemann or the typesetter. May correctly wrote "estakado". (The incorrect title was corrected in the book edition.) In contrast to the previous novel The Son of the Bear Hunter , this youth story was not illustrated for reasons of time.

Book editions

For the book edition, publisher Wilhelm Spemann May proposed a merger of the two texts (Bärenjäger & Geist). May refused. Ultimately, only minor changes were made, although it has not yet been clear whether they were made by the publisher or Karl May. In addition to the division into nine chapters, some lines have been deleted. The changes amount to about five book pages. The concordance in the reprint of the Karl May Society contains information on the deletions .

The author of the foreword is not named.

Since 1914, the story has been included in Volume 35 of Karl May's Collected Works .

Dramatizations

Since the title of the double volume "Unter Vultures" is also very popular due to the film adaptation of the same name , open-air theaters usually use this as a title when they put one of the two individual novels "The Bear Hunter's Son" or "The Spirit of the Llano Estacado" on stage bring.

The following productions are based on the Llano novel:

  • Under vultures ( Elspe 1972) (world premiere)
  • Among vultures - the spirit of the Llano Estacado ( Bad Segeberg 1973)
  • Unter Vultures (Elspe 1990) (clearly revised version, re-edited several times: 1995, 2002, 2014)
  • Among vultures ( Staatz 1990)
  • Among vultures ( Ratingen 1991)
  • Among vultures - the spirit of the Llano Estacado ( Bad Segeberg 1998)
  • Among vultures - the spirit of the Llano Estacado (Bad Segeberg 2014)
  • Among vultures - the spirit of the llano estacado ( Mörschied 2002)
  • Among vultures - The spirit of the Llano estacado ( Bischofswerda 2007)
  • Among vultures (Dasing 2012)

Settings

Both Maritim and Europa adapted the youth story as a radio play . The first audio book was published by Radioropa in 2007 .

Sources Mays

Others

The illustrations for the book edition under the collective title “The Bear Hunter's Son” (1890) are by Konrad Weigand . In one of the pictures he made the mistake of depicting the villains Stewart and Burton as Indians . The text then had to be adjusted. The editor of the "Good Comrade" made the changes.

Remarks

  1. ↑ For the background to May's collaboration on this boys' magazine, see Karl May's illustration texts and Hobble Frank articles .
  2. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Llano-Geier
  3. ↑ The usual US-American translation "Staked Plains" is wrong, correct would be "Palisaded Plains". See: http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Llano_estakado .
  4. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Snuffles
  5. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Schiba-bigk
  6. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Bärenjäger_Baumann
  7. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Helmers_Home
  8. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Bloody-Fox
  9. ^ Afterword to the reprint edition, p. A 44.
  10. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Der_Sohn_des_Bärenjägers
  11. ^ Afterword to the reprint edition, p. A 46.
  12. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Unter_Giegen_(Elspe_1972)
  13. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Unter_Giegen_-_Der_Geist_des_Llano_Estacado_(Bad_Segeberg_1973)
  14. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Unter_Giegen_(Elspe_1990)
  15. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Unter_Giegen_(Elspe_1995)
  16. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Unter_Giegen_(Elspe_2002)
  17. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Unter_Giegen_-_Der_Geist_des_Llano_Estacado_(Elspe_2014)
  18. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Unter_Giegen_(Staatz_1990)
  19. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Unter_Giegen_(Ratingen_1991)
  20. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Unter_Giegen_-_Der_Geist_des_Llano_Estacado_(Bad_Segeberg_1998)
  21. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Unter_Giegen_-_Der_Geist_des_Llano_Estacado_(Bad_Segeberg_2014)
  22. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Unter_Giegen_-_Der_Geist_des_Llano_estacado_(Mörschied_2002)
  23. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Unter_Giegen_-_Der_Geist_des_Llano_estacado_(Bischofswerda_2007)
  24. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Unter_Giegen_(Dasing_2012)
  25. ↑ Dieter Sudhoff , Hans-Dieter Steinmetz : Karl May Chronicle I . Special volume on the collected works. Karl-May-Verlag Bamberg-Radebeul 2005, ISBN 978-3-7802-0170-6 , p. 388.

literature

  • Bernhard Kosciuszko: Karl May in school. Report on a series of lessons in class 7 of a grammar school. Two parts. In: Mitteilungen der Karl-May-Gesellschaft No. 54/1982 ( online version ), p. 25 ff. And No. 55/1982 ( online version ), p. 27 ff.
  • Helmut Schmiedt : Helmers Home and back. Playing with spaces in Karl May's story “The spirit of the Llano estakado”. In: Yearbook of the Karl May Society 1982 ( online version )
  • Bernhard Kosciuszko: Heroes of the West. Suggestions for an interpretation. Special issues of the Karl May Society 42/1983. ( Online version )
  • 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 .
  • Epilogue . In: The Bear Hunter's Son (reprint of the first book edition), 1995.
  • Wolfgang Hermesmeier, Stefan Schmatz : Karl May Bibliography 1913–1945 , Karl May Verlag, Bamberg 2000. ISBN 3-7802-0157-7
  • Bernhard Kosciuszko: The spirit of the Llano estakado. In: Gert Ueding (Ed.): Karl-May-Handbuch. Verlag Königshausen & Neumann Würzburg 2001, ISBN 3-8260-1813-3 , p. 273 f. (On page 201 of the manual - as in this article - a distinction is made between the book title Der Geist des Llano estakado and the landscape " Llano Estacado "!)
  • Wolfgang Hermesmeier, Stefan Schmatz: Development and expansion of the collected works. A success story for 110 years , in: Der schliffene Diamant , Bamberg-Radebeul 2003, ISBN 3-7802-0160-7 , pp. 341–486, here especially p. 396 ff.

Web links
Works by Karl May


Early work (1875–1883)

The Book of Love  • Geographical sermons (in “ Schacht und Hütte ”) • The two Quitzow's last voyages  • Caught on the sea  • Scepter and hammer  • In the far west  • The Ranger  • The Jewel Island
Groups of shorter texts: adventure stories (including Old Firehand  • The Oil Prince ) • Erzgebirge village stories  • Stories about the old Dessauer  • Historical stories  • Humoresques

Colportage novels (1882–1888)

The forest rose  • The Uhlan's love  • The lost son  • German hearts - German heroes  • The way to happiness

Travel stories (1892–1899)

Through the desert and harem ( through the desert ) • Through wild Kurdistan  • From Baghdad to Stambul  • In the gorges of the Balkans  • Through the land of the Skipetaren  • The Schut  • Winnetou I – III  • Oranges and dates  • On the Pacific Ocean  • On the Rio de la Plata  • In the Cordillera  • Old Surehand I  • Old Surehand II  • In the land of the Mahdi I – III  • Old Surehand III  • Satan and Ischariot I – III  • On strange paths  • “Christmas!”  • In the realm of the silver lion I- II  • On the afterlife
special case: The rose of Kaïrwan

Youth narratives (1887–1897)

The son of the bear hunter  • The spirit of the Llano estakado  • Kong-Kheou, the word of honor ( The blue-red Methuselah ) • The slave caravan  • The treasure in the Silver Lake  • The legacy of the Inca  • The oil prince  • The black mustang
Groups of shorter texts: illustration texts  • Texts below the pseudonym Hobble-Frank

Late work (1900–1910)

Heavenly thoughts  • In the realm of the silver lion III  • Erzgebirge village stories  • In the realm of the silver lion IV  • And peace on earth!  • Babel and the Bible  • Ardistan and Jinnistan I – II  • Winnetou IV  • My life and striving

Other works (1896–1912)

The joys and sorrows of a widely read person  • Serious sounds (contains, among others, Ave Maria ) • Three questions of humanity  • Sitara, the land of the human  soul • Up into the realm of noble men

Film adaptations of the works and life of Karl May


cinemamovies

On the ruins of paradise  (1920) • The death caravan  (1920) • The devil worshipers  (1920) • Through the desert  (1936) • The slave caravan  (1958) • The lion of Babylon  (1959) • The treasure in the Silver Lake  (1962) • Winnetou Part 1  (1963) • Old Shatterhand  (1964) • The Schut  (1964) • Winnetou Part 2  (1964) • Among Vultures  (1964) • The Aztec Treasure  (1965) • The Pyramid of the Sun God  (1965) • The Oil Prince  (1965) • Through wild Kurdistan  (1965) • Winnetou 3rd part  (1965) • Old Surehand 1st part  (1965) • In the realm of the silver lion  (1965) • The legacy of the Inca  (1966) • Winnetou and the Half-blood Apanatschi  (1966) • Winnetou and his friend Old Firehand  (1966) • Winnetou and Shatterhand in the valley of the dead  (1968) • The trail leads to the Silver Lake  (1990) • WinneToons - The legend of the treasure in the Silver Lake  (2009)

Television series and films

With Karl May in the Orient  (1963) • Kara Ben Nemsi Effendi  (1973/75) • My friend Winnetou  (1980) • The bush ghost  (1986) • Hello - here Karl May / Bärenstark  (1987) • Prairie hunters in Mexico  (1988) • Winnetou  (1996) • Winnetou's Return  (1998) • WinneToons  (2002) • Winnetou - The Myth Lives  (2016)

Adaptations of the biography

Acquittal for Old Shatterhand  (1965) • Karl May  (movie, 1974) • Karl May  (TV series, 1992)