The black mustang
The black Mustang is a story by Karl May that he conceived in 1894 and wrote from mid-1895 to mid-1896 for the magazine Der Gute Kamerad , in which it was first published from September 1896 to March 1897. It was published in book form in 1899, with minor changes, as the first volume in the Kamerad-Bibliothek of the Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft . In 1916, a few years after May's death, the Karl-May-Verlag published aversion heavily abridgedby the publisher Euchar Albrecht Schmid under the new title Halbblut , which not only contained a new division of chapters, but also a completely different ending, which was written by Schmid himself was. It formed the first part of volume 38 of Karl May's Gesammelte Werke , which was also altogether under the title Halbblut and contained a number of other shorter stories by May.
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The story set in the Wild West combines two storylines. The cousins Has and Kas Timpe, two Germans from Plauen and Hof , meet by chance in a thunderstorm night and recognize their relatives in conversation. They believe they have been cheated out of a great inheritance and are now looking for a third cousin to stay in Santa Fé .
In a railroad camp, where about 200 Chinese railroad workers under the leadership of a white engineer are working on the railroad line, they want to warm up and first encounter an Indian scout and then Old Shatterhand and Winnetou . This will find out quickly that the Scout, a mestizo , one acting under the false name Yato Inda ( "Good man") spy Comanche is. In reality his name is Ik Senanda ("Evil Snake") and is the grandson of the Comanche chief Tokvi-Kava ("Black Mustang"), who is preparing an attack on the camp. Two Chinese foremen, who overheard the conversation, steal the silver can, the bear killer and the henry stub , the famous rifles of Old Shatterhand and Winnetou, but are surprised by Tokvi-Kava himself, who takes them from them and also steals the heroes' horses. However, the horses soon break loose and return to camp. Quickly guessing what happened, Old Shatterhand and Winnetou devise a plan to retrieve their property and capture the Comaniac.
Together with the two cousins, they first have to get their rifles back and then prevent the attack. They are supported by Hobble-Frank and Aunt Droll , who happen to be nearby. With the help of the railroad workers they set a trap for the Indians and defeat them by surrounding the hiding place of the Comanches and "closing" the entrance with a fire.
The grace and humanity of Winnetou and Old Shatterhand let them die. However, their horses, weapons and medicines are taken from the Comanches, with which they are dishonored, which is why Tokvi-Kava, Ik Senanda and their companions are expelled from the tribe. He is also denied further possession of his eponymous black horse "Tokvi-Kava". When trying to take weapons and horses from incredibly naive, gold-greedy whites with the legend of the Bonanza of Hoaka , they are again caught , beaten and then released by Old Shatterhand and Winnetou.
Book editions
In 1899 the story was published in book form as the first volume in the Kamerad Library of the Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft , Stuttgart, Berlin, and Leipzig. Minor changes have been made for the book edition. Until today it has not been possible to clarify whether they were carried out by the publisher Wilhelm Spemann or by Karl May. The illustrations came from Oskar Herrfurth .
In the collected works of the Karl-May-Verlag the story was renamed as part of No. 38 in "Halbblut" (1917) and abbreviated and heavily edited by Euchar Albrecht Schmid as editor. In particular, the story came to a much more cruel end: the mestizo Ik Senanda is not just beaten up and then released, as in the original, but rather hung up by the "Majesty" and his prospectors in a detailed execution scene. The “Black Mustang” Tokvi-Kava himself, who was beaten up and released by May like his grandson, now finds a violent death by falling into the abyss. Euchar Schmid claimed in his foreword to the volume Halbblut published in 1916 that May had broken off the story prematurely. According to Hansotto Hatzig, on the other hand , The Black Mustang formed a "thoroughly meaningful and well-rounded story".
In 2003, the Karl-May-Verlag published a separate edition of the story with the title The Black Mustang . It comprises 232 pages.
Settings
The material has been implemented by all major audio game labels. There are adaptations from Maritim (1973), Europa (1976), Karussell (1987) and others. The last audio drama was written in 2005/2006.
Dramatizations
In both Bad Segeberg and Elspe , plays based freely on the novel were played.
- 1974: half-blood (Elspe)
- 1977: The black Mustang (Bad Segeberg)
- 1986: half-blood (Bad Segeberg)
- 1992: half-blood (Elspe)
- 1999: half-blood (Bad Segeberg)
- 1999: The Half-Blood - The Last Battle for Fort Grant (Elspe)
- 2005: Half-Blood - The Last Battle for Fort Grant (Elspe)
- 2010: half-blood (Bad Segeberg)
- 2011: half-blood (Elspe)
Film adaptations
In 1966, as the successor to the Karl May film Old Surehand Part 1, several novel subjects by Karl May were under discussion. The second part of the Old Surehand adventure as well as the stories Old Firehand and Half-Blood were considered. The Surehand film was soon abandoned, and because the name was still moving, the name "Winnetou" was included in the title planning for the new films. This is how the film titles Winnetou and his friend Old Firehand and Winnetou and the half-breed Apanatschi came about . The plot then filmed was, however, a free invention of the scriptwriters.
Remarks
- ↑ Hansotto Hatzig : The black mustang. Introduction . In: Karl May: The black Mustang . Reprint, edited by Hansotto Hatzig, Hamburg 1991, p. 3.
- ↑ Karl May on uni-karlsruhe.de , accessed on September 30, 2018
- ↑ Facsimile of this foreword in Hansotto Hatzig: The Black Mustang. Introduction . In: Karl May: The black Mustang . Reprint, edited by Hansotto Hatzig, Hamburg 1991, p. 4. Cf. also Hermesmeier, Schmatz: Origin and expansion of the collected works ... , 2003, p. 402 f.
- ↑ Hansotto Hatzig: The black mustang. Introduction . In: Karl May: The black Mustang . Reprint, edited by Hansotto Hatzig, Hamburg 1991, p. 3.
literature
- Hainer Plaul: Illustrated Karl May Bibliography. With the participation of Gerhard Klußmeier . Edition Leipzig 1988. ISBN 3-361-00145-5 , p. 211 f. and 238 f. (or) KG Saur Munich – London – New York – Paris 1989. ISBN 3-598-07258-9
- Wolfgang Hermesmeier, Stefan Schmatz : Karl May Bibliography 1913-1945 , Karl May Verlag , Bamberg 2000, ISBN 3-7802-0157-7
- Reinhard Tschapke: The black Mustang. In: Gert Ueding (Ed.): Karl-May-Handbuch. Verlag Königshausen & Neumann Würzburg 2001, ISBN 3-8260-1813-3 , pp. 297-300.
- Wolfgang Hermesmeier, Stefan Schmatz: Development and expansion of the collected works. A success story for 110 years. In: Lothar and Bernhard Schmid (eds.): The polished diamond. Karl May's Collected Works. Karl-May-Verlag, Bamberg / Radebeul 2003, ISBN 3-7802-0160-7 , pp. 341-486, especially pp. 401-405.
- Henning Franke: Bad snake - good man. Changes in a May story . In: Karl-May-Welten III, KMV, Bamberg 2009.
- Peter Essenwein: Karl Mays The black mustang. The narrative as a first step in a completely different direction? From the reader's book text to the mime's text book? In: Communications from the Karl May Society No. 191, 2017.
Web links
- The original text online on the Karl May Society website .
- Current issues of the magazine version => see book database .
- Current editions of the book edition => see book database .
- Overview of all settings (audio game database)