Karl May publishing house
In the Karl-May-Verlag in 1913 in Radebeul was founded, books are mainly from and to Karl May published. Starting with the series “ Karl May's Collected Works ” in green and gold covers, through reprints of the first editions, to bibliographies , biographies and other secondary literature on the author and his work.
history
On July 1, 1913, Klara May (widow, universal heir and estate administrator), Friedrich Ernst Fehsenfeld (May's previous main publisher) and the jurist Euchar Albrecht Schmid (as managing director) founded the "Verlag der Karl May Foundation Fehsenfeld & Co." in Radebeul , which from 1915 was called "Karl-May-Verlag" (KMV). The publishing house was Schmid's villa . They succeeded in settling all legal disputes over some novels and in acquiring the rights to works published by other publishers (e.g. Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft (youth stories) and Verlag H. G. Münchmeyer , Dresden (delivery novels )). These volumes were integrated into the ones already published by Fr. E. Fehsenfeld, Freiburg i. Br. 33-volume series "Karl May's collected travel stories" incorporated. This series was renamed “Karl May's Collected Works” (from volume 91 with the addition “and letters”) and some of the volumes were given new titles.
In some cases, the publisher intervened considerably in the text structures. In particular, the Kolportage novels from the Münchmeyer publishing house have been significantly revised, and Münchmeyer is said to have intervened heavily in May's texts in accordance with the publishing practice of the time. In the course of the progressive publication of more and more volumes of the collected works , the compilation of those volumes was repeatedly changed that are thematic collections of individually published stories. For this reason, volumes with identical titles and numbers from different decades contain partly different stories. The edits were made by Euchar Albrecht Schmid, permanent employees of the publishing house and outside Karl May supporters. Franz Kandolf , Rudolf Beissel and Max Finke were particularly influential . The KMV, under the aegis of Roland Schmid, responded to the criticism of these arrangements, which had been publicly expressed several times (including by Arno Schmidt ) by reworking volumes 28–33 of the collected works , which were primarily suggested and carried out by Hans Wollschläger .
Other goals of the KMV included May's rehabilitation against literary studies and criticism, as well as promoting the Karl May Foundation .
The Karl-May-Verlag published the Karl May yearbooks from 1920 to 1933, which had been edited by Friedrich Barthel since 1918 .
Since Fehsenfeld's contractual retirement in 1921 and the separation from the Karl May Foundation (as Klara May's heir) in 1960, when parts of the estate were transferred to the publisher, the KMV has been in the hands of the Schmid family. Due to the relationship between the authorities in the Soviet occupation zone and the GDR and Karl May, the KMV moved to Bamberg in 1959 , but has also been represented in Radebeul again since 1996. Volumes in "classic" design appeared in Bamberg before 1959. Publishing names were "Ustad Verlag", "Bayrische Verlagsanstalt". The series ran under "Karl-May-Bücherei", copyright notice "Joachim Schmid Verlag". "Ustad-Verlag" or "Karl-May-Bücherei" was noted on the spine of the book. The thousands of the total edition were counted on. With the expiry of the copyright protection period in 1963, the KMV lost its monopoly position. A forced commercialization of May followed. The name Karl May is a registered trademark of the "Karl May Verwaltungs- und Vertriebs-GmbH" of the KMV.
After Lothar Schmid retired from management in 2007 for reasons of age, the publishing house is now run by the grandson of the publisher's founder, Bernhard Schmid . KMV is one of the few successful monothematic publishers in the world.
Karl May's Collected Works (and Letters)
All works were edited before they were published, although the sometimes considerable scope of the editing and rewriting (especially for volumes 50 to 68) has led to criticism.
| tape | title | Work cycle | year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Through the dessert | Orient cycle | 1913 |
| 02 | Through wild Kurdistan | ||
| 03 | From Baghdad to Stambul | ||
| 04 | In the gorges of the Balkans | ||
| 05 | Through the land of the Skipetars | ||
| 06 | The Schut | ||
| 07 | Winnetou I | Winnetou trilogy | |
| 08 | Winnetou II | ||
| 09 | Winnetou III | ||
| 10 | Sands of perdition (formerly oranges and dates ) | Anthology: Orient, u. a. Marian calendar stories | |
| 11 | At the Pacific Ocean | Anthology: South Seas, East Asia | |
| 12 | On the Rio de la Plata | South America Dilogy ("El Sendador") | |
| 13 | In the Cordilleras | ||
| 14th | Old Surehand I. | Surehand Trilogy (main story) | |
| 15th | Old Surehand II (formerly: Vol. 19 Old Surehand III ) | ||
| 16 | Manhunter (In the Land of Mahdi I) | Mahdi trilogy | |
| 17th | The Mahdi (In the Land of the Mahdi II) | ||
| 18th | In Sudan (In the Land of Mahdi III) | ||
| 19th | Captain Kaiman (formerly: Vol. 15 Old Surehand II ) | formerly Surehand trilogy , now anthology of various Wild West stories | |
| 20th | The rock castle (formerly: Satan and Iscariot I ) | Satan and Iscariot Trilogy | |
| 21st | Kruger-Bei (formerly: Satan and Iscariot II ) | ||
| 22nd | Satan and Iscariot (formerly: Satan and Iscariot III ) | ||
| 23 | On foreign paths | Anthology: u. a. Marian calendar stories | |
| 24 | "Christmas!" | ||
| 25th | On the afterlife | ||
| 26th | The lion of the blood revenge ( In the realm of the Silver Lion I ) | In the realm of the silver lion | |
| 27 | By the ruins of Babylon ( In the Kingdom of the Silver Lion II ) | ||
| 28 | In the kingdom of the silver lion ( In the kingdom of the silver lion III ) | ||
| 29 | The Petrified Prayer ( In The Realm of the Silver Lion IV ) | ||
| 30th | And peace on earth | ||
| 31 | Ardistan (Ardistan and Dschinnistan I) | Ardistan and Jinnistan | |
| 32 | The Mir of Jinnistan (Ardistan and Jinnistan II) | ||
| 33 | Winnetou's heirs (Winnetou IV) | Connection to the Winnetou trilogy | |
| 34 | "I" | Autobiography & Biographical Texts | 1917 |
| 35 | Among vultures | contains The Bear Hunter's Son and The Spirit of the Llano Estacado | 1914 |
| 36 | The treasure in Silbersee | 1913 | |
| 37 | The oilprince | 1915 | |
| 38 | Half-breed ( the black mustang ) | also contains the stories from The Rose of Kaïrwan | 1917 |
| 39 | The legacy of the Inca | 1913 | |
| 40 | The crimson Methuselah | 1914 | |
| 41 | The slave caravan | 1915 | |
| 42 | Old Dessauer | Stories about Prince Leopold I of Anhalt-Dessau | 1921 |
| 43 | Made of dark fir | Erzgebirge village stories | |
| 44 | The forest black | ||
| 45 | Scepter and hammer | Continuation or double novel (without surtitles) | 1926 |
| 46 | The jewel island | ||
| 47 | Professor Vitzliputzli | Humoresques | 1927 |
| 48 | The magic water | Anthology: u. a. Marian calendar stories | |
| 49 | Light heights | Heavenly Thoughts (Poems and Sayings), Babel and Bible (Drama) | 1956 |
| 50 | In Mecca (by Franz Kandolf ) | Continuation of On the Hereafter | 1923 |
| 51 | Rodriganda Castle | Forest rose | 1924 |
| 52 | The pyramid of the sun god (formerly: From the Rhine to the Mapimi ) | ||
| 53 | Benito Juarez | ||
| 54 | Trapper Vulture's Beak | 1925 | |
| 55 | The dying emperor | ||
| 56 | The way to Waterloo | The Uhlan's love | 1930 |
| 57 | The secret of the marabout | ||
| 58 | The Ortry Spy | ||
| 59 | The Lords of Greifenklau | ||
| 60 | Allah il Allah! | Orient-Roman, edited episodes from German hearts - German heroes | 1931 |
| 61 | The dervish | German hearts - German heroes (main storyline) | 1933 |
| 62 | In the valley of death | 1934 | |
| 63 | Sable hunter and cossack | 1934 | |
| 64 | The bush ghost | Parts of The Prodigal Son | 1935 |
| 65 | The stranger from India | 1939 | |
| 66 | The whip miller | Parts from The Way to Happiness (novel about King Ludwig II of Bavaria ) | 1958 |
| 67 | The silver farmer | 1959 | |
| 68 | The root sep | 1960 | |
| 69 | Knights and rebels | Episodes from The Two Quitzow's Last Rides | |
| 70 | The ranger | Karl May's adaptation of the novel Le Coureur de Bois by Gabriel Ferry | 1959 |
| 71 | Old Firehand | Edited volumes: early work | 1967 |
| 72 | Shaft and hut | 1968 | |
| 73 | The hawk | Part of the road to happiness | 1967 |
| 74 | The lost Son | Parts of The Prodigal Son | 1985 |
| 75 | Slaves of shame | 1993 | |
| 76 | The hermit | 1994 | |
| 77 | The duke's children | Part made from forest roses | 1995 |
| 78 | The Miramare Enigma | Parts from The Way to Happiness and German Hearts - German Heroes | 1996 |
| 79 | Old Shatterhand in the home | Anthology: u. a. Fragments and illustration texts | 1997 |
| 80 | Caught at sea | Adventure novel and two Wild West stories (show development of the Winnetou character) | 1998 |
| 81 | Abdahn Effendi | Anthology: late work | 2000 |
| 82 | In distant zones | Travel diary and contributions to May's world trips | 1999 |
| 83 | On the torture stake | Trial and defense documents | 2001 |
| 84 | The Bowie Father | Anthology: early work | 2003 |
| 85 | Of wives and men of honor | Trial and defense documents | 2004 |
| 86 | My grateful readers | 2005 | |
| 87 | The book of love | 2006 | |
| 88 | Deadly Dust | two stories from the Wild West - original versions of parts of Winnetou III (vol. 88), Winnetou II and episode from German hearts - German heroes (vol. 89) | 2008 |
| 89 | In the far west | 2011 | |
| 90 | Conspiracy in Vienna | Parts from The Way to Happiness and The Prodigal Son , humoresques, fragments | 2014 |
| 91 | Correspondence with Friedrich Ernst Fehsenfeld I | 2007 | |
| 92 | Correspondence with Friedrich Ernst Fehsenfeld II | 2008 | |
| 93 | Correspondence with Sascha Schneider | 2009 | |
| 94 | Correspondence with Joseph Kürschner | 2013 |
The series also contains numerous unnumbered special volumes that contain either anthologies , factual texts on May or foreign texts. Worth mentioning is the large volume Karl May and the music , which contains May's compositions (including serious sounds ).
Other authors of the publisher
- Robert Kraft
- John Retcliffe
- Werner Legère
- Jörg Kastner
- Thomas Jeier
- Heinz Grill
- Marie Versini
- Jacqueline Montemurri
literature
- Berhard Schmid and Jürgen Seul (eds.): 100 years of Karl May publishing house. Publishing work for Karl May and his work (1913-2013) . Karl-May-Verlag Bamberg / Radebeul 2013, ISBN 978-3-7802-0276-5
- Lothar and Bernhard Schmid (eds.): The cut diamond . Karl-May-Verlag Bamberg / Radebeul 2003, ISBN 3-7802-0160-7
Web links
Remarks
- ^ Jürgen Wehnert: The Karl May publishing house . In: Gert Ueding (Ed.): Karl-May-Handbuch . 2nd expanded and revised edition. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2001, ISBN 3-8260-1813-3 . P. 554 ff.
- ↑ Wilhelm Kosch u. a. (Ed.): German Literature Lexicon . The 20th century. Vol. 1: Aab farmer . De Gruyter Verlag, Berlin 2000. ISBN 3-908255-01-5 . P. 649
- ^ René Wagner: Karl May Foundation (Radebeul) . In: Ueding, Karl-May-Handbuch , p. 549 ff.
- ^ Jürgen Wehnert: The Karl May publishing house . In: Ueding, Karl-May-Handbuch , p. 554 ff.
- ↑ First published in the year mentioned by Karl May Verlag within the Gesammelte Werke.