Karl May dramatizations

A Karl May dramatization is a stage work that is based on works by the German writer Karl May (1842–1912) or has his person as the protagonist as its content.

A stage work, also called a stage play or play, is a poem that is performed on the stage . As a drama , it differs from epic (or novel ) and poetry .

The stage works include drama ( tragedy , comedy , melodrama , farce , parody , puppet theater ), music theater ( opera , operetta , singspiel , musical ) and ballet or dance theater .

Examples of corresponding dramatizations of Karl May works:

1. play
   1. Tragedy: " Outlaw Hakawati "
   2. Comedy: " The Old Dessauer "
   3. Melodrama: "The forest rose"
   4. Posse: "The Slipper Mill"; "Posse from the Old Dessauer"
   5. Parody: " Soul lust & eye candy "
   6. Puppet theater: " The treasure in the silver lake "
2. Musical theater
   1. Opera: "Am Silbersee"
   2. Operetta: " Fräulein Rothaut "
   3. Singspiel: "Winnetou" (1982)
   4. Musical: "Winnetou" (2001)
3. ballet
   1. Dance theater: "The Queen of the Sun"
   2. Ballet Suite: "Karl May Story"

Venues for the dramatizations can be stages and open-air stages . The Karl May dramatizations were initially only written for stages, later almost exclusively for open-air stages. Well-known authors for the stage play were:

• Hermann Dimmler
• Ludwig Koerner
• Tono Kaiser
• Götz Loepelmann
• Johannes Reitmeier
• Daniel Call
• Georg in the middle

For open-air performances, u. a .:

• Roland Schmid
• Wulf Leisner
• Toni Graschberger
• Harry Walther
• Jochen Bludau
• Klaus-Hagen Latwesen
• Pierre Brice
• Olaf Hörbe
• Mike Dietrich

May's stage work (s)

In his portrayal of the Karl May dramatizations, Hansotto Hatzig wrote in 2001:

“Originally Karl May wanted to bring his hero Winnetou onto the stage. In addition to a singspiel under the title Die Pantoffelmühle , "Original Posse mit Gesang und Tanz", of which only fragments of text and composition have survived, May wrote his "Arab Fantasia" Babel and Bible ten years later , but neither during his lifetime nor later has been performed. "

Babel and Bible had its world premiere in 2005: the drama was premiered in full for the first time on June 21, 2005 in Hachenburg in the Westerwald as part of a school performance directed by Peter Wayand, after at most scenic (partial) readings had previously taken place.

Basics

“Dramatizing Karl May is a natural choice because the poet lets the fascinating creatures of his imagination, heroes and fiends act, sometimes in front of a fixed backdrop, sometimes like on a revolving stage, and lets the reader enjoy their exciting adventures, external and internal experiences and conflicts, mainly conveyed in conversations: the dialogue is the characteristic of a Karl May story and the conflict between good and bad is its constant motif. In the case of Karl May, turning the reader into a viewer is relatively easy. Anyone who wants to work on this author for the theater must first and foremost be able to cautiously contain the overflowing river Mayscher imagination and adapt it to the possibilities of the wooden stage. He has to simplify the plot with great sensitivity and possibly merge scenes and contract roles. Zuckmayer uses the example of the performance he has reviewed to illustrate how the result should look : 'Excellent, really great about the processing is the childlike, serious alternation of comic and tragic scenes, the carefree successive - like that, that's exactly how you have to play theater write!' ...

Compared to the wooden stage, the open-air stage for Karl May performances offers more than just technical advantages. Livened up by the Karl May cosmos, it conveys the vastness of Mayscher through the open sky, landscape images that come from the soul and stimulates the imagination . For the duration of the game, it is able to give the viewer the illusion of freedom and to satisfy their longing for the distance. Although there is only one fixed backdrop for all the scenes , the imagination can easily recognize the different locations . It is supported by the possibility of using riders, stagecoaches, emigrant treks, railways etc. as additional agents on the open-air stage and building small buildings such as an Indian village, a Wild West town or the like.

Of course, the open-air theater has its disadvantages. The size of the acoustic space places high demands on the vocal possibilities of the actors . Many a word is lost. The sound technology has its limits. Many beautiful Karl May dialogues that can be read with pleasure, such as the conversation between Old Shatterhand and Sam Hawkens on the subject of 'I want to be my readers' teacher' in the first Winnetou volume, are lost in the wide open-air stage . It does not allow play in a confined space.

Nevertheless, with a good Karl May presentation on the open-air stage, the viewer can have almost the same mood experiences as the reader when reading a Karl May book. This is certainly the main reason for the success of the Karl May Games. "

- Berndt Banach : Karl May to look at, 1988

First dramatizations

Hatzig begins his story of Karl May dramatizations with the play "Winnetou" by Hermann Dimmler, premiered in 1919 at the Deutsches Theater in Munich . Unfortunately, he overlooks the fact that a Karl May story was staged earlier: the operetta “ Fräulein Rothaut ” in 1916, also in Munich.

Hatzig also describes the successful adaptation of the Dimmler libretto for "Winnetou" by Ludwig Körner , performed in Vienna in 1928 and in Berlin in 1929 , which in this form succeeded in conquering numerous stages in the thirties and forties. Even after the war, this version (in the third version available since 1950, edited by Ludwig Körner and Roland Schmid ) is used again and again : " Winnetou, the red gentleman ".

Hatzig mentions a dramatization of the adventure novel Der Schatz im Silbersee on the Rathen Felsenbühne in 1940 , which cannot actually be considered the beginning of the Silbersee dramatizations, but rather represents an embarrassing solution after the Karl May Games had moved to Werder . At the "Wild West Games after Karl May" of the Dresden Circus Sarrasani , shown in Rathen in 1940 , organized with motifs from The Treasure in Silbersee and The Oil Prince under the overall title "The Treasure in the Silbersee" (book: Adolf Steinmann, director: Josef Firmans ), Karl May fell by the wayside in favor of pure circus performances.

Plays based on the works of Karl May

In the first post-war years

• Old Shatterhand and Winnetou am Silbersee (Vienna 1946)
• Old Shatterhand and Winnetou am Silbersee (Linz-Urfahr 1947)
• Old Shatterhand (Ratingen 1949)
• Winnetou and his white brother (Munich 1949)

In the 1950s

• Winnetou, the red gentleman (Hamburg / Bad Segeberg 1952)
• The treasure in the Silbersee (Bad Segeberg 1954)
• Hadschi Halef Omar (Bad Segeberg 1955)
• In the gorges of the Balkans (Bad Segeberg 1956)

In the 1960s

• The Oil Prince (Bad Segeberg 1961)
• Among vultures - the bear hunter's son (Bad Segeberg 1962)
• Through the desert (Bad Segeberg 1963)
• Old Surehand (Bad Segeberg 1965)
• Winnetou II - Ribanna and Old Firehand (Bad Segeberg 1966)
• The rock castle (Bad Segeberg 1969)

In the 1970s

• In the valley of death (Elspe 1970)
• The secret of the bonanza (Mülheim 1971)
• Among vultures - The spirit of the Llano Estacado (Elspe 1972)
• The legacy of the Inca (Bad Segeberg 1974)
• The treasure in Silbersee (Elspe 1977)
• The black Mustang (Bad Segeberg 1977)
• The forest rose or the chase around the world (Hannover 1977)
• Through wild Kurdistan (Bad Segeberg 1978)
• Winnetou I (Elspe 1978)
• Old Firehand (Bad Segeberg 1979)

In the 1980s

• Winnetou, the Apache (Vienna 1980)
• You are a greenhorn, sir! (East Berlin 1984)
• The treasure in Silbersee (Rathen 1984)
• Rodriganda Castle. A persecution around the world (Mönchengladbach 1985)
• Winnetou (Rathen 1987)

In the 1990s

• A Case for Sam Hawkens (1990)
• Winnetou's last ride (Maierhöfen 1990)
• Winnetou's last fight (Bad Segeberg 1990)
• Winnetou - The Legacy (Bad Segeberg 1991)
• Winnetou (Rathen 1991)
• The Oil Prince (Rathen 1991)
• German hearts - German heroes (Bamberg 1992)
• Keryhof (Leuchtenberg Castle 1992)
• Winnetou II (Rathen 1992)
• Old Surehand (Rathen 1995)
• Forest rose (Radebeul 1996)

In the 2000s

• The Aztec Treasure (Weitensfeld 2000)
• The secret of the black masks (Waldenburg 2001)
• In the valley of death (Bad Segeberg 2002)
• Whitewater (Burg Ziesar 2005)
• Karl May in 90 minutes (Aachen 2007)
• The Elbe Indians are coming! (Dresden 2008)
• Winnetou V - A Karl May Expedition (Munich 2008)

In the 2010s

• The old Dessauer (Dessau 2012)
• The bush ghost (Marienberg 2015)
• Winnetou360 ° (Jena 2017)
• Winnetou, a peace monologue (2017)

The most popular pieces

Winnetou

World premieres of Winnetou I in:

• 1919 - Munich (book: Hermann Dimmler )
• 1928 - Vienna (B: Hermann Dimmler and Ludwig Körner )
• 1929 - Berlin (B: Dimmler / Körner)
• 1932 - Hohenstein-Ernstthal (B: 3rd act: Werner Legère )
• 1938 - Felsenbühne Rathen (B: Martin Raschke )
• 1938 - Free Volksbühne Berlin (B: Dimmler / Körner)
• 1939 - Vienna (Jesuitenwiese in the Prater ) (B: ​​Körner)
• 1940 - Thalia Theater Hamburg (B: Körner)
• 1940 - Werder / Havel (B: unknown)
• 1941 - Felsenbühne Rathen (B: Körner)
• 1941 - City Theater Steyr (B: Rolf G. Garding)
• 1942 - Hohenstein-Ernstthal (B: Dimmler)
• 1950 - Natural stage Blauer See Ratingen (B: Raschke / Barthel)
• 1952 - Bad Segeberg (B: Ludwig Körner and Roland Schmid )
• 1978 - Elspe (B: Jochen Bludau )
• 1984 - You are a greenhorn, sir! (B: Helmut Baierl)
• 1987 - Felsenbühne Rathen (B: Uwe Wolf)
• 2004 - Felsenbühne Rathen (B: Olaf Hörbe)
• 2004 - Hohenstein-Ernstthal (B: Uwe Hänchen)
• 2006 - Hohenstein-Ernstthal (B: Tom Mayor)
• 2009 - Karl May Festival Leipzig (B: Rainald Grebe )

Further performances of the Dimmler / Körner version before and during the war:

1928 - Linz 1930 - Dresden 1938 - Hildesheim City Theater

1938 - Warnsdorf 1939 - Rathen (B var .: Raschke) 1939 - Halberstadt City Theater

1939 - Volkstheater Munich 1939 - Landestheater Beuthen 1940 - Halle City Theater

Further performances of the Dimmler / Körner version shortly after the war:

1947 - Hanover 1947 - Wolfenbüttel 1947 - Vienna 1950 - Berlin 1950 - Bremerhaven

1950 - Kassel 1950 - Neuwied 1950 - Stuttgart 1950 - Wiesbaden 1951 - Mönchengladbach

1952 - Cuxhaven 1952 - Karlsruhe 1952 - Mainz 1953 - Bentheim

In 1950, Ludwig Körner himself revised his play again together with Roland Schmid for open-air stages . It was premiered in Bad Segeberg in 1952 : " Winnetou, the red gentleman ". This third version was the basis for all Winnetou productions until well into the 1970s :

Winnetou (Hamburg 1952) Winnetou (Bad Segeberg 1952) Winnetou (Bad Segeberg 1953)

Winnetou (Nuremberg 1954) Winnetou (Bad Segeberg 1957) Winnetou (Elspe 1958)

Winnetou (Elspe 1967) Winnetou (Bad Segeberg 1971)

In the years 1978–1980 Jochen Bludau wrote new dramatizations of the entire Winnetou material , which have since been performed regularly in Elspe :

• Winnetou I : 1978, 1984, 1993, 2000, 2006, 2012, 2017
• Winnetou II: 1979, 1985, 2018
• Winnetou III: 1980, 1986, 1997, 2019 (planned)

The treasure in Silbersee

Festival performances in:

Altenbrak 1993 Annaberg-Buchholz 1996 and 1998 Bad Segeberg 1954 , 1958, 1964, 1981, 1989, 1994, 2001, 2009 and 2016. Bentheim 1960 Berlin 1968 Bischofswerda 1998, 2005. Burgrieden 2014 Cuxhaven 1965

Dasing 2006 and 2015 Elspe 1959, 1968, 1973, 1977 , 1982, 1987–1989, 1994, 1996, 2003, 2009 and 2015. Gföhl 1991, 1999, 2010 and 2013 Hockweiler 2001 Jonsdorf 1985, 1986 and 2011 Katzweiler 1999 Mörschied 1995, 2004 and 2014.

Rathen 1940, 1984-1986, 2007-2009. Ratingen 1962, 1974, 1977, 1982, 1987 and 1993 Thale 1992 Twisted 2004 and 2011 Weitensfeld 1996, 2006 and 2010 Vienna 1978 Winzendorf 2002, 2007 and 2014

The main Winnetou actors

List of actors and speakers who played the role of Winnetou at least once (Source: Karl-May-Wiki)

The most important Winnetou actors in films and on stages (source: Karl-May-Wiki):

• Benjamin Armbruster : played Winnetou in Elspe from 1988 to 2011.
• Jean-Marc Birkholz : has been playing Winnetou since 2012 in Elspe. From 2001 to 2006 he played the role of Apache chief on the Rathen rock stage.
• Jochen Bludau : began his great career as director of the Elspe Festival in 1958 and in 1959 as a Winnetou actor.
• Pierre Brice : role of Winnetou in eleven cinema films; Karl May Festival in Elspe in the Sauerland and Bad Segeberg in Holstein; further theater appearances in this role in Vienna, Dortmund, Wuppertal and Ratingen.
• Heinz Ingo Hilgers : Winnetou at the Karl May Games in Bad Segeberg 1961, 1964–67 and 1969/70; at the Karl May Festival in Mülheim an der Ruhr (open-air theater on the Dimbeck) in 1971.
• Klaus-Hagen Latwesen : became one of the most popular successors of Heinz Ingo Hilgers in Bad Segeberg, he gave the Winnetou there in 1973 and 1975, before he was also responsible as author, director and artistic director between 1981 and 1987.
• Gojko Mitić : various DEFA films, including 12 Indian films ("The Sons of the Great Bear"), previously supporting actor in three Karl May films in 1963/64 ("Old Shatterhand", "Winnetou 2", "Unter Vultures"); Winnetou for the first time in 1991 in the Harz mountain theater near Thale; from 1992 to 2006 in Bad Segeberg (as successor to Pierre Brice), some productions were recorded on television and are available on DVD.
• Hans Otto : played the title role in 1929 in the play "Karl May's 'Winnetou, the red gentleman'" in Berlin at the theater in Königgrätzer Straße. Carl Zuckmayer wrote about him: He "was really beautiful and noble [...], he had the mysterious, noble, shadowy thing that matters most".
• Will Quadflieg : played Winnetou in December 1938 at the Volksbühne in Berlin in the play "Winnetou - the red gentleman".
• Gustavo Rojo : at the Karl May Festival in Berlin's Deutschlandhalle in 1966 and 1968.
• Erol Sander : played Winnetou from 2007 to 2012 in Bad Segeberg.
• Thomas Schüler : appeared in the years 1976–1980 and was the only actor of Winnetou who played the role in Bad Segeberg with a naked torso; this became his trademark.
• Jan Sosniok : played Winnetou from 2013 to 2018 at the Karl May Games in Bad Segeberg.
• Hans-Jürgen Stumpf : after shortly before playing the role of Winnetou at Besenbinderhof in Hamburg, he was hired for the same role at the first Karl May Games in Bad Segeberg in 1952.
• Nik Xhelilaj : played the role of Winnetou in 2016 in the remake produced for RTL alongside Wotan Wilke Möhring as Old Shatterhand.

The Kalkberg-Winnetous ancestral gallery :

Hans-Jürgen Stumpf Gerhart Lippert Horst Vincon Günther Hoffmann Heinz Ingo Hilgers

Manfred Boehm Werner Wachsmuth Thomas student Klaus-Hagen Latwesen Pierre Brice

Gojko Mitic Erol Sander Jan Sosniok Alexander Klaws

Musicals, operettas and recitals

• Action and music drama "Winnetou" (1982)
• Winnetou (Sofia 2001)
• Winnetou is a Christian - Songs as German as the Wild West (2005)
• Little Chief Winnetou (2013)
• Karl May, Room of Truth (2014)

Comedy, parodies, satires and the like

• Winnetou in Hollywood. Parody after and for Karl May (1976)
• Dreams, Death and Felt Slippers (1986)
• Soul lust & eye candy. Wagner and Winnetou do each other (1988)
• Winnetou and Half the Abbot (2000)
• Karl May - Winnetou dies, but doesn't show anything ... (2001)
• I'm not Karl May (2006)
• Winnetou IV (2008)
• Winnetou (vdt) (2012)

Puppet shows

• The Treasure in Silbersee (2000)
• The treasure in Silbersee - Karl May unleashed (2013)

Theater plays on the biography of Karl May

• Outlaw Hakawati (1967)
• I am Hakawati (1987)
• Turmoil at Villa Shatterhand (1997)
• Demons of the Soul (2003)
• The Other's Pocket Watch (2006)
• I invented Karl May (2011)
• Rose Victory: The Death of Old Shatterhand (2012)
• Ridden through. View all Karl May (2013)
• Manitu turns a blind eye (2017)
• The Phantast or Life and Death of Dr. Karl May (2017)
• Much Ado About Old Shatterhand (2017)

See also

• Figures from Karl May's works

literature

To the whole

• Berndt Banach: Karl May to look at. His work on stage, in the cinema and on television , in: Roland Schmid (ed.): 75 years of publishing work for Karl May and his work 1913–1988 [Festschrift] , Bamberg: Karl-May-Verlag 1988, p. 161 ff .
• Rainer Buck: Karl May on canvas, stage and record , in: Karl May. The Winnetou author and the Christian faith. With a foreword by Jens Böttcher , Moers: Brendow 2012, p. 173 ff.
• Hansotto Hatzig: Dramatisierungen , in: Gert Ueding (Hrsg.): Karl-May-Handbuch. 3rd edition , Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2001, p. 523 ff.
• Detlef Romey: Winnetou actor from 1928–2017 , in: ders .: Winnetou, a peace monologue. Play for an actor. Edited by Schienke , Berlin: Verlag Neopubli 2017, pp. 7–12.
• Joachim Schmid: Karl May on the stage , in: Karl May Verlag (Hrsg.): 50 years of publishing work for Karl May and his work [Festschrift] , Bamberg: Karl May Verlag 1963, p. 48 f.
• Dieter Sudhoff , Hartmut Vollmer (eds.): Karl Mays "Winnetou". Studies on a Myth (Suhrkamp Taschenbuch materials) , Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 1989.

To open-air stages

Rathen rock stage

• Nicolas Finke: When Winnetou conquered Saxon Switzerland. Karl May in Rathen since 1984 (part 2): 1987–1994 . In: Karl May & Co. No. 136/2014.
• Ulrich Neumann: "Karl May game as valuable popular entertainment". 80 years ago: “Winnetou's heroic life and death” on the Rathen rock stage between Wild West romanticism and Nazi propaganda. Part 1: Karl May Games Rathen 1938. In: Karl May & Co. No. 152/2018.

Natural stage Blauer See Ratingen

• Nicolas Finke: In the wild west. On the history of the Karl May Games on the Blauer See natural stage in Ratingen -
  • Part 1: 1949/1950 . In: Karl May & Co. No. 117/2009.
  • Part 2: 1950 and 1961–1963 . In: Karl May & Co. No. 119, 2010.
  • Part 3: How Elspe and Pierre Brice came to the Blue Lake . In: Karl May & Co. No. 120/2010.
  • Part 4: The Ratingen branch of the Karl May Festival in Elspe in the 1980s and 1990s . In: Karl May & Co. No. 123/2011.

Kalkberg Stadium Bad Segeberg

• Nicolas Finke, Torsten Greis: 45 years of the Karl May Games in Bad Segeberg. Part 1 and 2. In: Karl May & Co. No. 66/1996 and No. 67/1997.
• Reinhard Marheinecke , Nicolas Finke, Torsten Greis, Regina Arentz: Karl May am Kalkberg. History and stories of the Karl-May-Spiele Bad Segeberg since 1952 , Bamberg / Radebeul: Karl-May-Verlag 1999.
• Reinhard Marheinecke, Nicolas Finke, Torsten Greis: Karl May am Kalkberg, new stories from the Karl May Games Bad Segeberg 1999–2001 , edited by Lothar and Bernhard Schmid, 2001. ISBN 978-3-7802-3009-6
• Reinhard Marheinecke, Nicolas Finke, Torsten Greis: Karl May am Kalkberg, new stories from the Karl May games Bad Segeberg 2001-2004 , edited by Lothar and Bernhard Schmid, 2004. ISBN 978-3-7802-3015-7
• Nicolas Finke: Orient & Balkan on the stage - example Bad Segeberg: A historical picture arch 1955–1978. In: Karl May & Co. No. 90/2002, pp. 40-42.
• Nicolas Finke, Reinhard Marheinecke: At the foot of the Kalkberg. The Bad Segeberger Karl May spectacle in the 80s. A retrospective . Verlag Reinhard Marheinecke Hamburg 2008.
• Peter Zastrow, Hans-Werner Baurycza: A city plays Indians. From the early years of the Karl May Festival in Bad Segeberg (Segeberger Blätter, Volume 2) , Duderstadt: EPV 2011.

Open-air stage of the Elspe Festival

• Jochen Bludau, Fred Aurich: Elspe - Germany's Wild West. Hohenloher, 1981.
• Klaus Bröking: 40 years of Elspe. Wild West made in Germany. Heel, Königswinter 2004. ISBN 3-89880-300-7
• Jutta Laroche: Jubilee mood in Elspe. The first Karl May Festival took place in the Sauerland 50 years ago. A review. In: Karl May & Co. No. 112/2008.

Rehberge open-air stage

• Hartmut Schmidt: Wild West in Berlin :
  • Part 1: About the Karl May Games on the Rehberge open-air stage in 1963/64 . In: Karl May & Co. No. 99/2005.
  • Part 2: About the Karl May Festivals in 1966 and 1968 in the Deutschlandhalle . In: Karl May & Co. No. 101/2005 (together with Nicolas Finke).

Greifensteine nature theater

• Karl May at the Greifenstein 1992 . In: Karl May Circular No. 48/1992.
• Alexandra Gubsch, Andrea Stiegler: Tilo Esche: Winnetou from the Greifenstein. In: Karl-May-Rundbrief No. 49/1992.
• Stefan Wagner: The Treasure in Silbersee - A performance on the natural stage Greifensteine ​​in Annaberg. In: Karl May & Co. No. 66/1996.

Stadtwaldbühne Bischofswerda

• Michael Kunz: The Great Bear's children on the way to Silver Lake. 25 years of the Gojko Mitić syndicate . A success-story. In: Karl May & Co. No. 149/2017.

Twisted

• Michael Kunz: Winnetou dies at the Silbersee. Farewell to the blood brothers in Twisteden. In: Karl May & Co. No. 126/2011.
• Michael Kunz: An oil prince named Santer. New Winnetou in Twisteden. In: Karl May & Co. No. 133/2013.
• Michael Kunz: The blood brothers rode again on the Lower Rhine. In: Karl May & Co. No. 150/2017.

Pluwig

• Gordon Piedesack: The spirit of Pluwig. In: Karl May & Co. No. 126/2011.
• Michael Kunz: Old Firehand in the quarry. The "valley of death" in Pluwig. In: Karl May & Co. No. 134/2013.
• Volker Krischel: Warm to the heart. Pluwig: Mayechter Old Surehand with short lengths. In: Karl May & Co. No. 150/2017.

Dasing

• Michael Kunz: "We want to tell positive stories". In conversation with Peter Görlach. In: Karl May & Co. No. 146/2016.
• Christine Hünseler, Michael Kunz: “Now more than ever !”. Matthias M. and Helmut Urban in conversation. In: Karl May & Co. No. 152/2018.

Castles

• Sigfried Baumann: Winnetou has arrived. Burgrieden: Staging of "The Oil Prince" is well worth seeing. In: Karl May & Co. No. 146/2016.
• Christine Hünseler: The three most famous men in the West. Continuation in Burgrieden: "Winnetou II - Ribanna". In: Karl May & Co. No. 150/2017.
• Nicolas Finke: With a little help from Eberhard & Johanna. Burgrieden: Successful “Unter Vulture” production despite film loans. In: Karl May & Co. No. 154/2018.

To individual performances

• Jan Dvořák: THE PHANTAST or the life and death of Dr. Karl May . in: Yearbook of the Karl May Society 2018, pp. 17–87.
• Hansotto Hatzig: Photos and names after seventy years. In: Communications from the Karl May Society No. 119/1999, pp. 10–15. ( Online version )
• Götz Loepelmann , Astrid Fischer-Windorf (arr.): The forest rose or the persecution around the world. (Stage version). A melodramatic sheet of pictures , Olms, 1977.
• Wesselin Radkov: The Winnetou Musical in Bulgaria . A dream comes true . In: Mitteilungen der Karl-May-Gesellschaft No. 129/2001 , p. 47 ff. ( Online version )
• Hartmut Schmidt: First Berlin Winnetou performance with Hans Otto . In: Karl-May-Haus Information No. 1/1989, pp. 9–13.
• Hartmut Schmidt: Winnetou in Berlin - an addition. In: Communications from the Karl May Society No. 119/1999, pp. 5–9. ( Online version )
• Hartmut Schmidt: "Winnetou was really beautiful and noble, his pale face is called Hans Otto ." Karl May dramatizations on Berlin stages and in Werder. In: Johannes Zeilinger (Ed.): Karl May in Berlin. Publishing House of the Nation 2007.
• Peter Siegel: The monograph of the human soul . In: Karl May & Co. No. 126/2011.
• Peter Wayand: The "I" in a thousand shapes . In: KMG-Nachrichten No. 191/2017.
• Carl Zuckmayer : Winnetou on stage . In: Karl May Yearbook 1931, p. 300 ff.

Web links

• Stages with first performances of May dramas (see the list in the Karl May Wiki)
• Entry in the Karl May Wiki about the May dramatizations
• Entry in the Karl May Wiki about the plays with Karl May as the protagonist
• http://www.staatsschauspiel-dresden.de/home/der_phantast/#
• http://peter-wayand.blogspot.de/2017/01/das-ich-in-tausend-gestalten-philipp.html

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Das_Waldröschen_oder_die_Verlung_rund_um_die_Erde._Ein_melodramatischer_Bilderbogen_von_Karl_May
2. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Die_Pantoffelmühle
3. ^ Posse from the old Dessauer
4. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Am_Silbersee_(Oper)
5. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Aktion-_und_Musik-Schauspiel_%22Winnetou%22
6. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Winnetou_(Sofia_2001)
7. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Die_Königin_der_Sonne
8. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Karl-May-Story
9. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Tono_Kaiser
10. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Hansotto_Hatzig
11. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Die_Pantoffelmühle
12. ↑ Hansotto Hatzig: Dramatisierungen ... , 2001, p. 523.
13. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Peter_Wayand
14. ↑ In: Roland Schmid (Ed.): 75 years of publishing work ... , 1988, pp. 162 and 165.
15. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Der_Schatz_im_Silbersee_(Rathen_1940)
16. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Der_Schatz_im_Silbersee_(Rathen_1940)
17. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Old_Shatterhand_und_Winnetou_am_Silbersee_(Wien_1946)
18. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Old_Shatterhand_und_Winnetou_am_Silbersee_(Linz-Urfahr_1947)
19. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Old_Shatterhand_(Ratingen_1949)
20. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Winnetou_und_sein_weißer_Bruder
21. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Das_Geheimnis_der_Bonanza_(Mülheim)
22. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Der_schwarze_Mustang_(Bad_Segeberg_1977)
23. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Durchs_wilde_Kurdistan_(Bad_Segeberg_1978)
24. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Old_Firehand_(Bad_Segeberg_1979)
25. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Der_Schatz_im_Silbersee_(Rathen_1984)
26. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Waldröschen#Mönchengladbach
27. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Winnetou_(Rathen_1987)
28. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Ein_Fall_für_Sam_Hawkens
29. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Winnetous_letzt_Fahrt
30. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Winnetou_(Rathen_1991)
31. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Der_Ölprinz_(Rathen_1991)
32. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Winnetou_II_(Rathen_1992)
33. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Old_Surehand_(Rathen_1995)
34. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Waldröschen_(Radebeul_1996)
35. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Der_Schatz_der_Azteken_(Weitensfeld_2000)
36. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Karl_May_in_90_M Minuten
37. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Die_Elbindianer_kommen !
38. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Winnetou_V_%E2%80%93_Eine_Karl-May-Expedition
39. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Winnetou360%C2%B0
40. ↑ http://www.pkgodzik.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Karl_May/Winnetou__ein_Friedensmonolog.pdf
41. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Winnetou_I_(Dramatisierungen)
42. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Winnetou_(Rathen_1938)
43. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Winnetou_(Berlin_1938)
44. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Winnetou_(Wien_1939)
45. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Winnetou_(Hamburg_1940)
46. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Karl-May-Spiele_(Werder_1940)
47. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Winnetou_(Steyr_1941)
48. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Winnetou_(Ratingen_1950)
49. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Winnetou_(Rathen_1987)
50. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Winnetou_I_(Rathen_2004)
51. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Winnetou_I_(Hohenstein-Ernstthal_2004)
52. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Winnetou_I_(Hohenstein-Ernstthal_2006)
53. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Karl-May-Festspiele_Leipzig
54. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Winnetou_(Linz_1928)
55. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Winnetou_(Dresden_1930)
56. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n} Mentioned in Hatzig: Dramatisierungen ... , 2001, p. 524.
57. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Winnetou_(Warnsdorf_1938)
58. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Winnetou_(Rathen_1939)
59. ↑ ^{a b c} http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/1947
60. ↑ ^{a b} Hatzig: Dramatisierungen ... , 2001, p. 525.
61. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Winnetou_(Hamburg_1952)
62. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Winnetou_(Bad_Segeberg_1953)
63. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Winnetou_(Nürnberg_1954)
64. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Winnetou_(Bad_Segeberg_1957)
65. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Winnetou_(Elspe_1958)
66. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Winnetou_(Elspe_1967)
67. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Winnetou_(Bad_Segeberg_1971)
68. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Elspe_Festival#Übersicht_der_Spielzeiten
69. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Der_Schatz_im_Silbersee#Dramatisierungen
70. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Kategorie:Winnetous
71. ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Winnetou-Darsteller_in_Filmen_und_auf_Bühnen
72. ↑ http://www.ln-online.de/Lokales/Segeberg/Die-Ahnengalerie-der-Kalkberg-Winnetous
73. ↑ Press release about the XIV. Winnetou (LN-Online from March 8, 2019)
74. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Aktion-_und_Musik-Schauspiel_%22Winnetou%22
75. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Winnetou_(Sofia_2001)
76. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/2005
77. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Kleiner_Häuptling_Winnetou_(Musical)
78. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Karl_May,_Raum_der_Wahrheit
79. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Winnetou_in_Hollywood
80. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Täume,_Tod_und_Filzpantoffeln
81. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Winnetou_und_der_halbe_Abt
82. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Karl_May_-_Winnetou_stirbt,_aber_lasst_sich_nichts_anmerken ...
83. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Ich_bin_nicht_Karl_May
84. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Winnetou_IV_(Comedy)
85. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Winnetou_(vdt)
86. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Der_Schatz_im_Silbersee_(Puppentheater)
87. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Ich_bin_Hakawati
88. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Ich_erfand_Karl_May
89. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Rosensieg:_Der_Tod_Old_Shatterhands
90. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Durchgeritten._Alles_von_Karl_May
91. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Manitu_Presst_ein_Auge_zu_(Theaterstück)
92. ↑ http://karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Der_Phantast_oder_Leben_und_Sterben_des_Dr._Karl_May
93. ↑ http://www.pkgodzik.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Karl_May/Viel_Laerm_um_Old_Shatterhand.pdf