Karl May's Collected Works

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Karl May's Collected Works, listing from 1930

This list shows the works of Karl May as published by Karl May Verlag since 1913 in the series Karl May's Collected Works (from Volume 91 also Karl May's Collected Works and Letters ).

Many of these volumes were compiled long after his death . Some of the texts did not even come from Karl May himself, or they were reassembled from scattered fragments. In the case of anthologies, the contents of the edited volumes were occasionally changed by the publisher (the stories and articles contained therein were exchanged). The travel stories, which have largely been reprinted unchanged, have also been revised. Karl May's ancient writing style has been modernized, long descriptions of landscapes and the like. shortened, some violent scenes omitted or revised, and the chapter division has been adapted to today's reading habits (instead of the four or five usually prescribed by May, now more than ten chapters).

Through the dessert

Vol. 1 1913 Orient cycle Original title: through desert and harem

Kara Ben Nemsi and his Arab servant and friend Hajji Halef Omar discover a dead man on the Schott Jerid in the Tunisian desert . This find becomes the starting point of a long adventure. While pursuing the murderers, their companion Sadek is shot and the criminals escape. In Egypt, Kara ben Nemsi frees the abducted Montenegrin Senitza from a harem . Then the two companions are attacked by pirates on the Red Sea and visit the holy city of Mecca . Halef meets the lovely Hanneh and marries her. In the port city of Muscat, Kara Ben Nemsi meets Sir David Lindsay, with whom he drives up the Tigris. At the Haddedihn he receives the noble Arabian stallion Rih as a thank you for a very successful customer ride and meets Halef again. In order to free Sheikh Mohammed Emin's captive son, they accompany him to the Kurdish mountains. There they come to the area of ​​the devil worshipers ( Yazidis ), by whom they are invited to take part in their great religious festival.

In this volume the name Kara Ben Nemsi is mentioned for the first time (which May translates as "Karl, son of the Germans").

  1. A death ride
  2. In court
  3. In the harem
  4. A kidnapping
  5. Abu-Seif
  6. Free again
  7. In Mecca
  8. On the Tigris
  9. On customers
  10. The victory
  11. With the devil worshipers
  12. The big festival

Through wild Kurdistan

Vol. 2 1913 Orient cycle Subtitle: travel story by Karl May

Kara ben Nemsi supports the Yazidis in their fight against the army of the governor of Mosul, which they want to attack during the festival. He receives the faithful greyhound Dojan as a gift from a Kurd. Then the liberation of Sheikh Mohammed Emin's son succeeds. However, the companions can no longer return the direct route and get caught up in the clashes of hostile Kurdish tribes. Only after peace has been made can the journey home continue.

  1. The sacrificial death of the saint
  2. Dojan
  3. In the fortress
  4. From the fortress
  5. Among blood avengers
  6. Bear and man hunting
  7. The spirit of the cave

From Baghdad to Stambul

Vol. 3 1913 Orient cycle Subtitle: travel story by Karl May

The companions assist a Persian nobleman in an attack by hostile Kurds. Sheikh Mohammed Emin is killed and his son separates from the group in order to get revenge on the murderers. They accompany the Persian group to Baghdad , where Kara ben Nemsi and Halef are stricken with a serious illness. After their recovery, they travel to Damascus and meet the criminal Abrahim Mamur, whom they know from Egypt, but cannot prevent him from robbing their host. You are pursuing the criminal. After he escaped at the ruins of Baalbek , they follow him to Istanbul , where he is killed by their Tunisian friend Omar ben Sadek. They learn that the brother of the man who killed Omar's father is planning a crime in Edirne . They can prevent this, but the criminal escapes.

  1. Among thieves
  2. An attack
  3. Fallen in battle
  4. In Baghdad
  5. The death caravan
  6. In Damascus
  7. In Stambul
  8. In Edreneh

In the gorges of the Balkans

Vol. 4 1913 Orient cycle Subtitle: travel story by Karl May

From Edirne, Kara Ben Nemsi follows the criminal into the gorges of the Balkans with Halef, the Montenegrin Osko and Omar Ben Sadek . Again and again they have arguments with the widely ramified gang of criminal. Adventure with smugglers and Halef's grotesque experience in a dovecote are at the center of the action. In Ostromja they meet the holy Mübarek.

  1. Schimin the blacksmith
  2. Among paschers
  3. In danger
  4. Old acquaintance
  5. In the dovecote
  6. A vampire
  7. In the Konak of Dabila
  8. A saint

Through the land of the Skipetars

Vol. 5 1913 Orient cycle Subtitle: travel story by Karl May

After St. Mübarek has been exposed as a member of the criminal gang, Kara Ben Nemsi and his companions then pursue the criminals through Albania (= land of the Skipetars ). In doing so, they unexpectedly meet the two dreaded Aladschy, fall into a trap in the ravine hut and experience a dramatic and funny episode in the old mother's tower.

  1. Exposed
  2. The two Alajy
  3. A Hekim
  4. In the Schluchthütte
  5. The miridite
  6. In the old mother's tower
  7. In water shortage

The Schut

Vol. 6 1913 Orient cycle Subtitle: travel story by Karl May

After adventures in the Devil's Gorge and at the Jewel Cave, Kara Ben Nemsi and his companions meet the dreaded Schut, the head of the widespread criminal gang. He is killed in a wild chase. The other criminals can also be rendered harmless.

  1. Halef in danger
  2. A bear hunt
  3. In the Devil's Gorge
  4. In the jewel cave
  5. An attack
  6. Under the earth
  7. At the traitor column

Appendix: Mein Rih (story from 1892)

Several years later Kara ben Nemsi and Sir David Lindsay visit their friend Halef with the Haddedihn. They also visit the grave of the killed Sheikh Mohammed Emin in Kurdistan. There they meet their former enemies. Kara ben Nemsi's horse Rih is killed in a bloody battle.

Winnetou I

Winnetou I, cover picture
Vol. 7 1913 Winnetou trilogy Subtitle: travel story by Karl May

The young first-person narrator comes to the Wild West for the first time as a surveyor and is given the war name Old Shatterhand because of his punch. When one of the protective forces shoots the surveyor Klekih-petra, the white teacher of the Apaches, a dispute breaks out between them and the whites, who allied themselves with the Kiowas .

Old Shatterhand wins the young chief's son Winnetou as a blood brother. His sister Nscho-chi falls in love with Old Shatterhand and wants to attend a white school in St. Louis . When they want to get gold for the trip, she and her father Intschu-chuna are shot by the criminal Santer. Old Shatterhand and Winnetou, the new chief of the Apaches, pursue Santer, who fled to the Kiowas.

  1. introduction
  2. A greenhorn
  3. Klekih-petra
  4. Winnetou in shackles
  5. Fought for life twice
  6. "Beautiful day"
  7. Sam's release

Winnetou, who in the first stories written by Karl May was an older savage who scalped his enemies, was idealized more and more until he finally became a symbol of the “noble savage”.

Winnetou II

Vol. 8 1913 Winnetou trilogy Subtitle: travel story by Karl May

After separating from Winnetou, who continues to pursue the murderer Santer, Old Shatterhand initially works as a private detective and succeeds in rescuing a kidnapped banker's son with the help of the experienced western man Old Death ( The Scout ). Later he met the famous Westman Old Firehand, in whose favor Winnetou once renounced his great love Ribanna . Winnetou, Shatterhand, Firehand and Sam Hawkens bring down the white chief Parranoh, also a former admirer of Ribanna who later murdered the beloved. When Winnetou and Shatterhand find Santer's trail, they are overwhelmed and captured by him. However, they use a trick to get Santer to release her again. But this escapes them again.

  1. As detectives
  2. The Kuklux
  3. Across the border
  4. Through the Mapimi
  5. Old Firehand
  6. In the "fortress"
  7. The Pedlar

Winnetou III

Cover picture by Sascha Schneider for Winnetou III, 1904
Vol. 9 1913 Winnetou trilogy Subtitle: travel story by Karl May

In Winnetou III, Old Shatterhand has various arguments with bandits and Indians. Winnetou falls into the hands of the Comanches together with some companions. Old Shatterhand manages to free them, however. Then he and Winnetou follow a group of whites and Ogallalah Indians who abducted the German settlers from Helldorf-Settlement. Winnetou is shot dead during the liberation operation. Shatterhand rides to Inschu-chuna's tomb to read Winnetou's will. Santer takes it from him to finally find the Apache gold, but dies in an explosion - a fuse built by Winnetou that only Old Shatterhand could have noticed.

  1. At the great western railway
  2. The stakemen
  3. Among the Comanches
  4. In California
  5. The Railtroublers
  6. Helldorf settlement
  7. At the Hancockberg
  8. The Apache Testament
  9. epilogue

Sands of perdition

Vol. 10 1913 Anthology Original title: Oranges and Dates

This book contains smaller adventures of the first-person narrator Kara Ben Nemsi in North Africa with changing companions. He fights with members of a robbery caravan that are making the Sahara unsafe. His worst adversaries are slave traders and predatory desert tribes.

  1. The gum
  2. Christ or Muhammad
  3. The Krumir
  4. A ghasuah
  5. Nûr es Semâ - heavenly light
  6. Christ's blood and righteousness
  7. Mater dolorosa
  8. The cursed one

The current edition contains the following stories:

  1. The gum
  2. Christ or Mohammed
  3. The Krumir
  4. The "sands of perdition" ( Er Raml el Helahk , originally in 23 "On foreign paths")
  5. The Baggara Raid ( A Ghasuah )

The discontinued stories can now be found in Volume 48 "The Magic Water".

At the Pacific Ocean

Book cover, ca.1914
Vol. 11 1913 Anthology

In the five travel stories, the first-person narrator Charley experiences numerous adventures in exotic locations. His companions include the captain Frick Turnerstick and the quirky Englishman Sir John Raffley.

The first three play in the South Seas , China and Siberia . Then the route leads to Ceylon and the Indian Ocean .

  1. The Ehri
  2. The Kiang-lu
  3. The Brodnik (1880)
  4. The girl-robber
  5. At the Tiger Bridge

In the current edition of KM-Verlag the three stories "Der Ehri", "Der Kiang-lu" and "Der Brodnik" have been combined into one under the title In the sign of the dragon , the stories "The Girl-Robber" and "An the Tiger Bridge ”under The Pirates of the Indian Sea .

On the Rio de la Plata

Cover picture by Sascha Schneider
Vol. 12 1913 South America dilogy

The South American adventure begins for the narrator in Uruguay . In this country torn by revolutions, his resemblance to a local partisan brought him first tangles. A secret draws him inland, where he meets the revolutionary Lopez Jordan .

  1. In Montevideo
  2. With the Bola men
  3. Brother jaguar
  4. In the lion's den
  5. The Pampero

In the Cordilleras

Vol. 13 1913 South America Dilogy

Charley is reflected in several South American countries such as Uruguay , Argentina and Bolivia with revolutionaries, bandits and Indians around to thwart the plotters of the mysterious Sendadors. He is accompanied by his old friend Turnerstick. In the Gran Chaco , the heroes find themselves in an uncomfortable position. Later they come across the mysterious Viejo Desierto.

  1. In the Gran Chaco
  2. The old Desierto
  3. At the Laguna de Carapa
  4. On the Isleta del Circulo
  5. God's judgment

Old Surehand I.

Old-Surehand cover picture by Sascha Schneider, 1904
Vol. 14 1913 Surehand trilogy

With the help of Old Wabble, Old Shatterhand can free the Westman Old Surehand from the hands of enemy Indians. Then he succeeds, with the help of Winnetou and his Apache warriors, to save his friend Bloody Fox (the hero from the youth story The Spirit of Llano Estacado ) from an attack by the enemy Komantschen. Fateful encounters take place in a Komantschendorf and in the Llano Estacado .

There are several other characters from the youth story (published in Volume 35).

  1. Old Wabble
  2. At the 'blue water'
  3. Winnetous messenger
  4. The oasis
  5. Iron heart
  6. By the 'hundred trees'
  7. In the cactus trap
  8. The general
  9. A surprise

Old Surehand II

Vol. 15 1913 Surehand trilogy earlier: 19 Old Surehand III

The original volume, Old Surehand II, was all but a collection of Wild West stories. The first-person narrator, Old Shatterhand, stops at the Mother Thick's inn while looking for Old Surehand in Jefferson City, where essentially only stories are told (adaptations of earlier stories by Karl May). The volume was therefore removed from the trilogy and published as volume 19 ( Captain Kaiman ) without the framework story .

The original third volume - supplemented by parts of the framework from Volume II - became Old Surehand II : Old Shatterhand and Winnetou move with their companions into the rocky mountains. You pursue a gang of criminals and finally meet the mysterious westerner Old Surehand. His true identity is now revealed: He is the half-breed Leo Bender, whose brother Fred, as Apanatschka, is a chief of the Comanche .

  1. With mother Thick
  2. On the tree of the lance
  3. An unexpected meeting
  4. At Harbors Farm
  5. The mysterious one
  6. Reversed roles
  7. A cyclops fight
  8. In Bärental
  9. Old Wabbles death
  10. At the 'devil's head'

Manhunter

Vol. 16 1913 Mahdi trilogy Original title: In the land of the Mahdi I

The starting point of the Orient Trilogy is Cairo . She describes the problem of the slave trade. Kara Ben Nemsi and his servants Ben Nil and Selim, together with Reis Effendina, pursue a slave trader as far as the Nubian Desert . A large part of the action takes place in or near Siut ( Middle Egypt ).

  1. A chajjal
  2. The Reïs Effendina
  3. In Siut
  4. Under the earth
  5. In the desert
  6. The slaves

The Mahdi

Muhammad al-Mahdi
Vol. 17 1913 Mahdi trilogy Original title: In the land of Mahdi II

Kara Ben Nemsi and his loyal companion, the freed slave Ben Nil, fight against slave hunters in Sudan . He meets the Mahdi , who later sparked an uprising against the English.

Muhammad Ahmad , the leader of the Mahdi uprising, called himself the Mahdi . He became famous through the conquest of Khartoum on January 26th, 1885. The British Major General Charles George Gordon was killed.

  1. The Mahdi
  2. Captured
  3. At the swamp of fever
  4. At the "father of five hundred"
  5. The Seribah Aliab

In Sudan

Vol. 18 1913 Mahdi trilogy Original title: In the land of Mahdi III

In Sudan, the persecution of the slave traders ends, against whose cruelty the rice Effendina can show no mercy.

After an episode in wild Kurdistan with Hajji Halef Omar, the last slave hunt in Inner Africa ends. The first-person narrator frees a slave caravan in Sudan with the help of Ben Nils and learns about a large settlement of the slave hunters. He conquered El Michbaja. Among the liberated is the Kurd Ssali Ben Aqil, whom Kara Ben Nemsi accompanies to Palestine , from where he also returns home.

  1. Hung up
  2. Just retribution

Karl May wrote two new chapters for the book edition of the Mahdi trilogy:

  1. Do good to those who hate you!
  2. The last slave hunt

Captain Cayman

Vol. 19 1913 formerly Surehand trilogy earlier: 15 Old Surehand II

The second volume of the Old Surehand trilogy was only an embarrassing solution to bridge a creative crisis of the author. The plot started in Volume I is actually only continued in Volume III. Therefore Volume III was renamed II and the original Volume II was renamed Captain Kaimann and redesigned a lot. The frame story was removed and it now contained the following narrations:

  1. Captain Cayman
  2. The Canada Bill
  3. The talking leather
  4. The stake man

The story about the dangerous pirate Captain Kaiman is a revised version of May's early crime novel Schloß Wildauen / Auf See gefangen , in which Winnetou also plays.

The other stories depict adventurous episodes from the lives of tried and tested western men. The young Abraham Lincoln also appears in the story of the Canada Bill .

Since 1999 the volume has almost returned to the original text composition of Old Surehand II: In a restaurant in Jefferson City, the guests tell each other stories that Old Shatterhand listens to. The story contained in the original volume, The King's Treasure , was resumed; The short story Der Pfahlmann is now being published in Volume 38 - in its original version and under the original title A Poet in Volume 84.

The rock castle

Vol. 20 1913 Satan and Iscariot Trilogy earlier: Satan and Iscariot I

The rock castle in the mountains of the Mexican Sonoran Desert holds a secret that is said to be ruin for a trek of German emigrants. Old Shatterhand takes on together with Winnetou the fight against the criminal Harry Melton and his brother Thomas.

The unscrupulous Mormon Harry Melton uses the contract to purchase land for the Mormons for personal gain.

  1. In the Sonora
  2. A trick of the devil
  3. Winnetou
  4. retribution
  5. The player
  6. Towards the danger

Kruger Bei

Vol. 21 1913 Satan and Iscariot Trilogy earlier: Satan and Iscariot II

Old Shatterhand and Winnetou free the German emigrants who are forced to do slave labor in the rock castle. But the villain Melton escapes.

When Winnetou visits Old Shatterhand in Dresden , he learns that Harry Melton (the Satan ) and his brother, the traitor Thomas Melton (the Iscariot ), have relocated their activities to the Orient in order to steal a million dollar fortune. Old Shatterhand travels to Africa with Winnetou to thwart the Meltons' plan. However, these can escape again.

  1. Under the earth
  2. Yuma Tsil
  3. A millionaire
  4. In Tunis
  5. At the Jebel Magraham
  6. In vain hunt

Satan and Iscariot

Vol. 22 1913 Satan and Iscariot Trilogy earlier: Satan and Iscariot III

The persecution of the Melton brothers ends in the Wild West with the death of the two criminals.

  1. Again in the west
  2. In the death hall
  3. A fratricide
  4. In the pueblo
  5. On the white rock
  6. Saved millions
  7. Enough

On foreign paths

Vol. 23 1913 Anthology -
Book edition from 1897
  1. The talisman (set in Lapland, original title Saiwa tjalem )
  2. The Kafferngrab (takes place in South Africa, original title Der Boer van het Roer )
  3. Blood revenge (Kara Ben Nemsi in the Orient)
  4. The Kutb (Kara Ben Nemsi in the Orient)
  5. The Merchant of Serdescht (Kara Ben Nemsi in the Orient, original title Der Kys Kaptschiji )
  6. Maria or Fatima (Kara Ben Nemsi in the Orient)
  7. The curse (adventure of Old Shatterhand and Winnetou, originally title God does not allow himself to be scoffed at )
  8. A Blizzard (Adventure of Old Shatterhand and Winnetou)

Travel stories by the first-person narrator from different parts of the world. Faithful friends, especially Hajji Halef Omar and Winnetou, are at his side.

The original third story, Er Raml el Helahk , was renamed and moved to volume 10, "Sands of Peril" , as the new title story.

"Christmas!"

Vol. 24 1913 - -

As a high school student, the first-person narrator, known as Sappho , goes on a hike in the Bohemian - Saxon border area with his school friend Carpio during the Christmas holidays . You help the poor Hiller family who want to emigrate to America. Years later he meets the Hillers and Carpio in America as Old Shatterhand. With Winnetou's help, he can protect them from bandits and enemy Indians. But in the end you have to spend the winter in the snowy mountains. When they celebrate Christmas under the Christmas tree there, Carpio dies.

  1. introduction
  2. The prayer-man
  3. Old Jumble
  4. "Sti-i-poka"
  5. In the snow

On the afterlife

Vol. 25 1913 - -

On the trip to Mecca, Kara Ben Nemsi and Haji Halef Omar, his wife Hanneh and his son Kara Ben Halef encounter the villain Ghani.

The plot is not finished because Karl May failed to write the sequel, which was repeatedly announced. On the beyond marks the transition to May's late work.

  1. A kijahma
  2. El Kanz el A'da
  3. El Mizan
  4. El Ashdar

Since 1951 the volume has been divided into 11 chapters:

  1. To Mecca
  2. The blind Münedschi
  3. The Persian
  4. Sheik Tawil
  5. The treasure of the limbs
  6. The ghost
  7. The scales of justice
  8. negotiations
  9. Arms
  10. Near death
  11. The hour of death
  12. "The desert judges between us!"

The lion of blood revenge

Vol. 26 1913 In the realm of the silver lion earlier: In the realm of the silver lion I

Until 1945 the volume was published under the original name Im Reiche des Silber Löwen I and with the content specified by Karl May:

After Winnetou's death, the first-person narrator (Old Shatterhand in the Wild West, Kara ben Nemsi in the Orient) is on his way to visit Winnetou's Apatschen tribe. He learns that the Persian nobleman Jafar was captured by a group of Comantschen under the chief To-kei-chun on his journey to San Francisco. He can free him and his companion and is presented with a valuable Persian dagger.

Kara ben Nemsi is now planning a trip to Persia. Before that he visits his old companion Hajji Halef Omar, who has now become Sheikh of Haddedihn, a group of the Shammar Bedouins in the Arabian desert. Fights broke out with the Sherarat tribe, who were feuding with the Shammar over a blood revenge. After Kara ben Nemsi has killed two lions, which repeatedly caused great damage to the Sheararat, a reconciliation takes place.

Now Kara ben Nemsi and Halef begin the journey to Persia. First they go to Baghdad on a raft on the Tigris. On the Tigris they come into conflict with three Persians, members of a secret society of criminal smugglers. In Baghdad they go to an old friend.

  1. Jafar
  2. At Makik Natun
  3. The lion of blood revenge
  4. On the Tigris
  5. In Baghdad

After 1945 the name of the volume was changed, the two episodes in chapters 1 - 3 were detached from their context and - together with an episode from In the Empire of the Silver Lion II (The Riddle) and other smaller stories - published as single stories:

  1. To-kei-chun
  2. resurrection
  3. Sky light
  4. Es Ssabbi, the cursed one
  5. The lion of blood revenge
  6. A mystery

The plot in chapters 4 and 5 had been combined with that of the second volume in "By the ruins of Babylon".

Since 1999, this volume has again contained the original plot of "In the Kingdom of the Silver Lion I" including the episodes "To-kei-chun" and "The lion of blood revenge". The remaining stories are now published in Volume 48, The Magic Water .

By the ruins of Babylon

Draft of the cover picture by Sascha Schneider for Im Reiche des Silbernen Löwen II
Vol. 27 1913 In the realm of the silver lion earlier: In the realm of the silver lion II

Kara Ben Nemsi and Hajji Halef Omar visit the ruins around the Tower of Babel from Baghdad . There they encounter the Persian smugglers again. You explore the puzzles of the death caravan and with the help of Turkish troops you can smash the part of the criminal secret society that is active here. Then there is a surprising reunion with the wise Marah Durimeh.

  1. At the Tower of Babel
  2. In court
  3. Osman Pasha
  4. Back in the tower
  5. Happy homecoming
  6. A mystery

In 1945 the volume was renamed In the Ruins of Babylon and the plot was expanded to include that of the last two chapters of the previous volume. Subplots (in the chapter A Riddle ) had been separated into the volume "The lion of blood revenge".

Since 2000 this volume has again contained the original content of "In the Reiche of the Silver Lion II".

In the realm of the silver lion

Old Persian flag
Vol. 28 1913 In the realm of the silver lion earlier: In the realm of the silver lion III

The first-person narrator Kara Ben Nemsi and Hajji Halef Omar visit the port city of Basra on their journey to the realm of the silver lion (= Persia ). There they meet Lord Lindsay, from whom they have to part again after a few hours. You ride through the Kurdish mountains to Persia. There they are robbed and become life-threatening. They are looked after by members of the Jamikun tribe. Halef can only be saved by bringing his wife and son to him. The friends support the Ustad, the religious leader of the Jamikun, when this utopian community is threatened by various groups because of its different way of life.

The volume begins like one of Karl May's normal travel stories. But the plot becomes more and more unrealistic from the second chapter, and the conversations are increasingly dominated by philosophical and religious topics. That is why this volume is counted among the author's symbolic late work.

  1. IN FIEBERLAND
  2. AT DEATH
  3. THE HIGH HOUSE

The petrified prayer

Vol. 29 1913 In the realm of the silver lion earlier: In the realm of the silver lion IV

Events from the previous volume reveal their deeper meaning; In a long night conversation, the Ustad (the master of the Jamikun) and Kara Ben Nemsi contemplate. It is Karl May's own personality that wrestles with himself in this late work.

In the end there is a decisive argument with the Sillan, the members of the Persian criminal gang. The Sillan are destroyed by a gigantic landslide, as a result of which the wonderful ancient alabaster statue "The Petrified Prayer" is visible again for everyone.

  1. IN THE CELL
  2. UNDER THE RUINS
  3. THE END OF THE SHADOWS
  4. TO THE ALABASTER TENT

And peace on earth

Cover picture by Sascha Schneider
Vol. 30 1913 first in 1901 as Et in terra pax

The book was created under the impression of Karl May's trip to the Orient in 1899 and 1900. It is the revised and expanded version of the story Et in terra pax (published in 1901 in the China book by Joseph Kürschner ). The new version was included in the collected travel stories in 1904 . The book has been edited several times by Karl May Verlag.

The first-person narrator travels from Cairo to China and has little in common with Kara Ben Nemsi. His servant Sejjid Omar professes Christian virtues. He also meets Sir John Raffley again, the once quirky Englishman who has found human virtues. Again and again the tour group encounters the zealous missionary Waller, who fails with his attempts at conversion. After a serious illness, Waller can finally be converted to charity.

Ardistan

Vol. 31 1913 Ardistan and Jinnistan Ardistan and Jinnistan I
Cover image by Sascha Schneider

May's most important late work takes Kara Ben Nemsi and Hadschi Halef Omar to the star Sitara. On behalf of Marah Durimeh you travel through the fictional country of Ardistan to assist the Mir of Jinnistan, whose country the ruler of Ardistan wants to invade.

The parable-like action takes place in the inner world and includes the entire development of mankind.

The Mir of Jinnistan

Vol. 32 1913 Ardistan and Jinnistan Ardistan and Jinnistan II

Kara Ben Nemsi and Hajji Halef Omar get the violent Mir (= ruler) of Ardistan to refrain from his war plans against the Mir of Jinnistan and stand by him when he is supposed to be killed by rebels. After the purification of Mir in the city of the dead, the decision in the fight against the rebels will be made in the foothills of Djinnistan. Now the way is free to the realm of the noble men.

Winnetou's heirs

Vol. 33 1913 Connection to the Winnetou trilogy originally Winnetou IV

The book first appeared in 1910, seventeen years after the original Winnetou trilogy was completed, and was a sort of end to Old Shatterhand's North American adventures. Karl May's last travel story reflects the impressions of his trip to America in 1908.

The 60-year-old Old Shatterhand receives letters in his Villa Shatterhand in Radebeul , inviting him to the upcoming construction of a Winnetou monument. Thereupon old Shatterhand travels to the Wild West again with his wife to attend a meeting of all the important Indians. He meets old friends, but also old enemies. He also meets the two sons of the murderer Santer, who regret their father's misdeeds and die when the huge Winnetou statue collapses. Old Shatterhand is happy about the collapse, because the statue does not reflect the inner values ​​of Winnetou.

"I"

Vol. 34 1917 Autobiography & Biographical Texts

Compilation of texts on the life and work of Karl May.

The biography (“ My Life and Striving ”) tells of a childhood in poverty, of transgressions and punishments, of the rise to success and finally of hostility in old age. It begins with the following words: “ I was born in the lowest, deepest Ardistan. "

  1. My confession (Karl May)
  2. My life and pursuit (Karl May)
  3. Up into the realm of noble people (Karl May)
  4. Karl May in Vienna (Adolf Gelber / Wilhelm Nhil / Paul Wilhelm / Robert Müller)
  5. Karl May's death and estate ( Dr. EA Schmid )
  6. Shape and Idea (Dr. EA Schmid)
  7. Justice for Karl May! ( Ludwig Gurlitt )
  8. Karl May, criminal law and literature ( Claus Roxin )

The following texts are no longer included in the current edition:

  • Mirror images (Ludwig Aub / Ludwig Klages / Richard Engel)
  • Human and human ( Karl Hans Strobl )
  • The older editions (before 1958) published here from the early work "Geographical Sermons" can now be found in Volume 72 "Shaft and Hut"

Among vultures

Vol. 35 1914 Youth stories

Karl May's youth stories are published in this and the following six volumes - from 1887 he wrote for the youth magazine Der Gute Kamerad . These stories contain a particularly large number of comical scenes and humorous conversations. In addition, Karl May does not appear here as a first-person narrator ( Old Shatterhand is also reported in the third person in the Wild West stories.). They could only be published by KM-Verlag after the copyrights had been acquired.

In the story The Bear Hunter's Son , Old Shatterhand and Winnetou help Martin Baumann to free his father from the hands of the Sioux .

  1. On the trail
  2. The hobble frank
  3. In the log house
  4. Old Shatterhand
  5. Winnetou
  6. With the Shoshone
  7. The gray bear
  8. Frank and Bob's adventures
  9. The nameless one
  10. Rock vulture
  11. In dire need
  12. At the 'hell mouth'

In The Spirit of the Llano Estacado , the gang of vultures misleads travelers in the desert in order to rob them. Bloody-Fox, as a child victim of the gang - because of his disguise "The Spirit", persecutes and kills some of its members again and again and tries to stand by the victims. With the help of Old Shatterhand, Winnetou and other Westmen it is then possible to neutralize the gang.

  1. Bloody Fox
  2. The shot in the forehead
  3. Desert vulture
  4. Iron heart
  5. A spy
  6. Witching hour
  7. suspicion
  8. The 'Singing Valley'
  9. The mask falls

The treasure in Silbersee

Vol. 36 1913 Youth narration

Old Shatterhand, Winnetou, Old Firehand and other Westerners prevent the notorious Red Cornel Brinkley from snatching the fabulous treasure in the Silver Lake.

  1. The black panther
  2. The tramps
  3. Night fighting
  4. Escaped retribution
  5. Indian masterpiece
  6. A tough ride in the dark
  7. In the battle for Butler's farm
  8. A drama on the prairie
  9. Cunning and counter-cunning
  10. At the eagle-tail.
  11. In a tight spot
  12. To death and life
  13. Nobility Old Shatterhands
  14. Trapped and freed
  15. An Indian battle
  16. At the silver lake

The oilprince

Vol. 37 1915 Youth narration

Old Shatterhand and Winnetou help a group of emigrants that gets caught between the fronts of two Indian tribes and becomes the plaything of the oil prince Grinley, who sells oil wells that don't even exist. However, Winnetou and Old Shatterhand track down the hoax.

  1. The bets
  2. Thwarted plans
  3. Departure for Tucson
  4. The raid
  5. Forner's Rancho
  6. An enigmatic monster
  7. In the pueblo
  8. The Liberation
  9. Scouts
  10. At the petroleum lake
  11. In the hands of the Nijoras
  12. The chief of the Navajos
  13. The fateful document
  14. Overheard
  15. On the winter water
  16. The punishment

Half-blood

Edition from 1916
Vol. 38 1917 Anthology

Stories from various creative periods, the most extensive of which is the youth story Halbblut .

Original content:

  1. Half-Blood - original title The Black Mustang (Old Shatterhand and Winnetou put an end to the intrigue of a treacherous half-blood against the backdrop of railroad construction.)
  2. Joe Burkers, das Einaug (Here the Karl-May-Verlag had merged two first- person stories - The Both Shatters and Ein Oelbrand - into one story and replaced Old Shatterhand with Old Firehand. Now the two stories are separated in volume 71 and 80 respectively released.)
  3. The Gitano (One of May's first first-person stories to be set in Spain. The protagonist is not yet identical with the later first-person hero. This story can now be found in volume 48.)
  4. On the banks of the Dwina (Early crime and fate story, published by Karl May under the title Nach Sibirien ; now in volume 48)
  5. From Mursuk to Kairwan (1893 edited and expanded version of the story The Rose of Sokna published in 1878 )
  6. Der Kaperkapitän (published by May in 1882 under the title Robert Surcouf , tells the adventures of the historic Napoleonic corsair Surcouf .)

Content after the redesign in 1997:

  1. Half-breed ( the black mustang )
  2. The privateer captain
  3. The stake man (previously in Volume 19 "Captain Caiman")
  4. From Mursuk to Kaïrwan

Tales 2-4 formed the three sections of the book The Rose of Kaïrwan published in 1893

The legacy of the Inca

Vol. 39 1913 Youth narration

South America adventure with the hero father Jaguar alias Karl Hammer and Haukarapora, the last descendant of the Incas , who is supposed to rebuild the old Inca empire through a war, but decides in favor of peace.

The legacy of the Inca is the destination of the ride that Father Jaguar and his companions set out on in Buenos Aires . You follow the criminal bullfighter Antonio Perillo, who has come into possession of the secret, as far as the Andes .

  1. The Espada
  2. Corrida de toros
  3. The 'Father Jaguar'
  4. A new acquaintance
  5. A pamparite
  6. The last of the Incas
  7. A night release
  8. Don Parmesan's leeches
  9. On the warpath
  10. Father Jaguar's story
  11. With the Cambas
  12. The crocodiles prey
  13. The bullfighter's secret
  14. A jungle fight
  15. Doctor Morgenstern on target
  16. The guests of the Señor Sereno
  17. Unexpected encounters
  18. The legacy of the Inca

The crimson Methuselah

Vol. 40 1914 Youth narration earlier: Kong-Kheou, the word of honor

Humorous portrayed adventures of a group of bizarre characters who are looking for a German oil prince and a Chinese family as well as a treasure in China .

The leader of the expedition is the eternal student Degenfeld, who is called the blue-red Methuselah because of his advanced age for a student and his schnapps nose .

  1. Kong-kheou, the word of honor
  2. "Tsching, Tsching, Tschin!"
  3. An endurance run in the litter
  4. Mijnheer Willem van Aardappelenbosch
  5. On the 'Schui-heu' to Canton
  6. A necromancy
  7. Among pirates
  8. In need and danger
  9. The end of the robbery junk
  10. Inland
  11. The robbery of the gods
  12. The temple visit and its consequences
  13. Under lock and key
  14. By water and by land to Hu-nan
  15. The treasure diggers and the hoei-hoei
  16. Under the protection of the beggar king
  17. "What is the German Fatherland?"
  18. Kong-kheou, the word of honor

The slave caravan

Vol. 41 1915 Youth narration

Orient adventure without Kara Ben Nemsi. The two learned brothers Emil and Joseph Schwarz are accompanied by the ornithologist Professor Pfotenhauer. It is important to fight the slave trade in Sudan. The researchers come across the worst of all slave robbers, the so-called father of death.

  1. The 'father of four eyes'
  2. A Djelaba
  3. At the 'spring of the lion'
  4. Abu el Mot
  5. Jurisdiction on the Nile
  6. Black plans
  7. Escaped slavery
  8. A new companion
  9. The story of the elephant hunter
  10. In slave shackles
  11. Allies
  12. The persecution of the slave trader
  13. Cannon thunder
  14. At the hippopotamus mayeh
  15. Dangerous adventures
  16. Against the decision
  17. The Suras Gorge
  18. retribution

Old Dessauer

Leopold I , the old Dessauer
Vol. 42 1921 Historical stories
  1. The scissors grinder
  2. A Prince-Marshal as a baker
  3. The plum thief
  4. Prince and Leiermann
  5. Three field marshals
  6. Pandur and Grenadier
  7. soul Reaper

These humoresques are entwined with the historical figure of Leopold I , a Prince of Anhalt-Dessau , who was a Prussian field marshal and a friend of Friedrich Wilhelm I , known to the people as the old Dessauer. May reports of him as a peculiar ruffian, but also as a kind and just country father.

Further Dessauer humoresques (including a little piece of the old Dessauer ) are contained in volume 84 The Bowie-Pater .

Made of dark fir

Vol. 43 1921 Erzgebirge village stories
  1. Sunshine
  2. The child's reputation
  3. The border master
  4. The devil's farmer
  5. The bonapart shoemaker
  6. The poison heiner
  7. The money marten
  8. The rose of Ernstthal
  9. The Samiel

These Erzgebirge village stories date (with the exception of Sunshine ) from May's earliest creative period.

The forest black

Vol. 44 1921 Erzgebirge village stories
  1. The Dukatenhof
  2. The Lord God Angel
  3. The forest black
  4. The money man

In this second volume of Erzgebirge village stories, Karl May describes the people and circumstances of his closer home. These stories (with the exception of Das Geldmännle ) are also from the earliest creative days.

Scepter and hammer

Vol. 45 1926

Two early novels by Karl May that revolve around the two fictional states of Norland and Süderland. The defective and z. Templates, some of which were incomplete, were heavily edited by KM-Verlag before they were published.

The Norlanders have to deal with invaders from the South. It is also necessary to unravel various child swaps in order to find the rightful heir to the throne of Norland. The novel begins in the forests of the north and leads to Egypt . The plot tells of adventures in the desert and in the Mediterranean and of the rise of a Nile barque leader to the Sultan's Grand Admiral .

  1. The gypsy
  2. Overheard
  3. The brothers of Jesus
  4. In the house of the mad
  5. On the border
  6. The beginning of the fight
  7. Chess moves
  8. Almah
  9. The great prince
  10. Years ago
  11. Paroli
  12. a review
  13. From rice to kapudan pasha
  14. The black captain
  15. The night before
  16. Fight and victory

The jewel island

Vol. 46 1926

Ten years after the events of scepter and hammer to get the relatives of a missing person through his diary news of the destruction of an Indian prince's court and the treasure of the Maharajah , who was saved to a deserted island gem.

  1. The 'great count'
  2. A clean shamrock
  3. Gerd's masterpiece
  4. A strange find
  5. The Diary of the Missing: Part One
  6. The Diary of the Missing: Part Two
  7. The Tiger'
  8. The Texasfred
  9. In the wigwams of the Komantschen
  10. In San Francisco
  11. The Maharaja's treasure
  12. At Helbigsdorf Castle
  13. A count's arsonist
  14. Lilga's death
  15. God's mills

Professor Vitzliputzli

Vol. 47 1927

Collection of humoresques and historical stories from home. The first two stories come from the part of Karl May's manuscript for Satan and Ischariot , which has been deleted by the editor of the Deutsches Hausschatzes ; the unedited manuscript version can be found in volume 79, "Old Shatterhand in the homeland".

  1. Professor Vitzliputzli (story of an absent-minded professor who devoted himself entirely to researching the American indigenous peoples)
  2. When two hearts part
  3. The lucky gray (story about Field Marshal Blücher)
  4. The war chest
  5. At the Ernstthaler Stammtisch
  6. The woolly devil
  7. The fisherman's Jacob and the water barrel
  8. The wrong excellencies
  9. The two night watchmen
  10. The bewitched goat
  11. The reluctant heirs
  12. Pankraz the Matchmaker
  13. How the city councilor Epperlein was bailed out

The magic water

Vol. 48 1927

Collection of stories that are set in different locations and come from different creative periods.

Original content:

  1. The magic water (story about the historical, mysterious Count of Saint-Germain , who made a name for himself as an adventurer and alchemist )
  2. Phi-Phob, the guardian spirit
  3. At the "Singing Water"
  4. Black eye
  5. The hamaïl
  6. The Sons of Upsaroka (This tale, earlier titled Mother's Love , is an adventure starring Old Shatterhand and Winnetou.)
  7. The Kurdish Cross
  8. Schefaka's secret
  9. A Christmas party in Damascus
  10. Old Shatterhand a. D. (original title joys and sorrows of a much-read , chat about the needs of the star author May.)
  11. The magic carpet (This oriental fairy tale, which was not published during May's lifetime, describes in an allegorical way the creation of his novel Und Friede auf Erden .)
  12. Abdahn Effendi
  13. Merhameh
  14. Shamah (In this story, the first-person narrator, who is very similar to the real Karl May, deals with religious conflicts in the Orient .)

The stories from the old work (nos. 9 and 11-14) were moved to volume 81 “Abdahn Effendi”; "Old Shatterhand a. D. ”(No. 10) was inserted under its original title in volume 79“ Old Shatterhand in the homeland ”.

Since 2000 the volume has included:

  1. The magic water
  2. Phi-Phob, the guardian spirit
  3. At the "Singing Water"
  4. Black eye
  5. The hamaïl
  6. The sons of Upsaroka
  7. The Kurdish Cross
  8. Schefaka's secret
  9. The Gitano (previously Volume 38, "Half Blood")
  10. On the banks of the Dvina ( To Siberia , so far vol. 38)
  11. Heavenly light ( Nûr es Semâ - heavenly light , originally vol. 10, later vol. 26, "The lion of blood revenge")
  12. Es Ssabbi - The Cursed ( The Cursed , originally Vol. 10, later Vol. 26)
  13. Among the Bakhtiyars ( The "Umm ed Jamahl" , so far only heavily edited in vol. 27 "At the ruins of Babylon")
  14. Resurrection ( Christ is risen!, At times Vol. 34 "" I "", later Vol. 26)

Light heights

Vol. 49 1956 Heavenly Thoughts, Babel and the Bible

Collection of non-belletristic texts. In addition to the poems published in 1901 under the title Heavenly Thoughts, the drama Babel and the Bible , and the letters on art , materials from the estate are collected here, such as drafts for dramas, early poetry and diary entries from Karl May's trip to the Orient.

Original content:

  1. Heavenly Thoughts
  2. Babel and Bible
  3. The poet on his work (on Babel and the Bible)
  4. Paths to the summit (fragments)
  5. Contemplation and reflection ( letters about art )
  6. Awakening Day (Early Poems)
  7. From Allah to Apollo (travel diary 1900)
  8. Warning and consolation (sayings)
  9. Light and shadow (poems)

In 1998 this volume was revised. Many texts were transferred to the old work volume 81 "Abdahn Effendi", the travel diary in the world travel volume 82 "In distant zones", and all the poems of heavenly thoughts are now included.

  1. Heavenly Thoughts
  2. Babel and Bible
  3. The poet about his work
  4. The book's soul (poem)
  5. Christmas Eve (poem in several variations)

In Mecca

Vol. 50 1923 Continuation of On the Hereafter by Franz Kandolf

This novel was written by Franz Kandolf , an employee of Karl May Verlag, and continues the plot from Volume 25. In the style of May's adventurous travel stories, it tells how Kara Ben Nemsi and Hajji Halef Omar still get to Mecca and settle accounts with the villainous Ghani.

Rodriganda Castle

Vol. 51 1924 Forest rose

This and the four following volumes contain an adaptation of Karl May's first great colportage novel, Das Waldröschen, from the 1920s . This first Münchmeyer novel is characterized by a very exciting and dramatic plot, but the text has considerable literary flaws - probably because of the time pressure in which it was written. It therefore had to be fundamentally revised before publication. The plot is now told, differently than in the original text, as chronologically as possible. For the understanding of the main plot unimportant story lines have been removed (now partially published in Volume 77 The Duke's Children ). B. unnecessarily excessive dialogues have been shortened. Two newly written episodes even changed the plot given by May a little.

The novel is mostly set in Mexico , Germany and Spain against a historical background: In Mexico the civil war between the legitimate President Juarez and the French occupation army is raging , in Germany the conflict between Prussia and France emerges after the 1866 war .

It tells the story of the Count Rodriganda, who - one in Spain, the other in Mexico - are unsuspectingly surrounded by cunning villains. The German doctor Karl Sternau intervenes in the event.

  1. Persecuted by the Komantschen
  2. The Hacienda del Eriña
  3. The Mixteka's treasure
  4. At the pond of the crocodiles
  5. The black stag
  6. Pablo Cortejo
  7. A villainous act
  8. The wrong heir
  9. Doctor Sternau
  10. Gasparino Cortejo
  11. What the beggar tells
  12. A failed attack
  13. Alfred de Lautreville
  14. New loops
  15. 'Pohon Upas!'
  16. The Gypsies
  17. In prison
  18. At the lighthouse of Mont St. Michel

The pyramid of the sun god

Vol. 52 1924 Forest rose earlier: From the Rhine to the Mapimi

This book is directly linked to Rodriganda Castle . At first it takes place in Germany. The main scene is then the wild Mapimí , a desert in northeast Mexico. At the center of the dramatic plot is an old, mysterious pyramid.

  1. The old Rodenstein
  2. Christmas at home
  3. In the wake of the pirate
  4. From Vera Cruz to Mexico
  5. The 'Lord of the Rock'
  6. Juarez
  7. The Captain of the Lancers
  8. A double duel
  9. A court of honor
  10. robbery
  11. In the pyramid
  12. On the chase
  13. Bear heart and buffalo forehead
  14. Scouts
  15. The superiority escaped
  16. Lost
  17. The 'panther of the south'

Benito Juarez

President Benito Juarez
Vol. 53 1924 Forest rose

Two historical antagonists shape the events of this volume: Benito Juárez , the President and new founder of Mexico, and Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, the brother of the Emperor of Austria .

The heroes from Karl May's fantasy world are closely interwoven with these historical figures.

  1. In Harar
  2. Sold as a slave
  3. Captain Wagner
  4. The cheated sultan
  5. The island in the ocean
  6. The 'Black Gerard'
  7. The rifle butt
  8. Throne in danger
  9. Matava-se returns
  10. Rapier and Tomahawk
  11. After the Indian battle
  12. At the gate of death
  13. The capture of the hacienda
  14. Bad news
  15. The decree of October 3rd
  16. A forceful kick
  17. The conquest of Chihuahuas
  18. The hidden letter

Trapper Vulture's Beak

Vol. 54 1925 Forest rose

May describes his title hero, a humourous fellow, humorous. Trapper Vulture Beak is one of the Union's most famous scouts and trappers. His real name is William Saunders. He got the trapper name from the Indians because of his extraordinarily big nose.

Further adventures remain to be found in the context of the fate of the Rodrigandas and the struggles of President Benito Juárez .

  1. A strange lord
  2. See you again on the Rio Grande
  3. The mark of the Mixtekas
  4. The hunter grandeprise
  5. Doctor Hilario
  6. Outwitted
  7. A bet
  8. The bourgeois lieutenant
  9. Political broadcasters
  10. Two demands
  11. "His Majesty the King!"
  12. Face to Face
  13. The secret of the Black Forest clock
  14. The harmless poacher
  15. Mask joke in Mainz
  16. Tricks on the railroad
  17. How Vulture's Beak came to Bismarck

The dying emperor

Édouard Manet : Execution of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico
Vol. 55 1925 Forest rose

This book describes the downfall of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico , who, through no fault of his own, has to endure the bitter consequences of his policies.

In the end, all the threads of the story that were tied in Rodriganda Castle also loosen . The criminals are either dead or imprisoned for the rest of their lives; the heroes of the novel enjoy the fruits of their victory.

  1. From Barcelona to Vera Cruz
  2. In disguise
  3. The empty coffin
  4. A terrible experience
  5. A trapper prank
  6. In the monastery della Barbara
  7. French arbitrariness
  8. Pirnero on target
  9. In search
  10. Escaped the dungeon
  11. In Zacatecas
  12. The fateful decision
  13. A failed attack
  14. At the 'Devil's Spring'
  15. The Siege of Queretaro
  16. Directed
  17. The nineteenth of June
  18. Finale

The way to Waterloo

Vol. 56 1930 The Uhlan's love was originally Marshal forward hot

The four-volume KM-Verlag version of the Kolportager novel Die Liebe des Ulanen about the fate of the Prussian family von Greifenklau (in the original version Königsau), about Franco-German Handel, but also many love ties from 1814 to 1871 The novel set mainly in Central Europe is North Africa. The protagonists also include historical figures such as Napoleon I and Marshal Blücher .

This first volume is about the experiences of the Prussian lieutenant Hugo von Greifenklau in the French enemy territory during the Napoleonic period. By marrying a French nobleman, he makes dangerous enemies.

  1. The captain of the Imperial Guard
  2. The Richemonte family
  3. Pharaoh and Biribi
  4. A princely suitor
  5. Two dark men of honor
  6. An unsuccessful attempt
  7. With old Blucher
  8. Margot's kidnapping
  9. "Marshal Forward"
  10. The return of the exile
  11. The stolen war chest
  12. Robbers in the Argonne Forest
  13. Napoleon Bonaparte
  14. The raid
  15. Thanks to an emperor
  16. Napoleon's last love
  17. A strange house search
  18. The escape
  19. The devil of gold
  20. After the battle of Waterloo
  21. Blucher’s last joy

The secret of the marabout

Vol. 57 1930 The Uhlan's love

In Algeria and later in Paris, dark events affect the fortunes of the Greifenklau family. Gebhard, Hugo's son, disappears without a trace while trying to restore prosperity to the impoverished family. Twenty years later, his son Richard spied on French enemies of Germany and hopes to clear up his father's fate in the process.

  1. The voice of the heart
  2. The eye of the French
  3. Panther roar
  4. In the duo of Beni Aïssa
  5. The dying marabout
  6. The Heritage
  7. A reunion in the Sahara
  8. The Emperor's favorite
  9. Devilish schemes
  10. A wolf in sheep's clothing
  11. Criminals among themselves
  12. A bolt from the blue
  13. The shepherd's daughter
  14. In search of the war chest
  15. A German scout
  16. A shipwreck on the Moselle
  17. The new tutor
  18. Strange ways
  19. The tower ghost
  20. Abu Hassan. the Wizard

The Ortry Spy

Vol. 58 1930 The Uhlan's love

The action shuttles back and forth between France and Germany . Several scenes take place in the extensive underground vaults and secret passages of Ortry Castle . The darkness of the past slowly lights up.

  1. I went there for myself in the forest
  2. Check the king!
  3. The tightrope walker
  4. In the darkest of Paris
  5. The general's granddaughter
  6. An important find
  7. Lockpick and crowbar
  8. Playful, Father Heimlich!
  9. In Tharandt's "Holy Halls"
  10. Hieronymus Aurelius Schneffke
  11. The old nerd
  12. Tangled threads
  13. In the Thionville tavern
  14. The shadows of the past
  15. On an underground track
  16. An act from hell
  17. Satan helps his own
  18. You lay a countermine
  19. In the powder mill
  20. The secret of the pastel picture
  21. A courtship with obstacles

The Lords of Greifenklau

Vol. 59 1930 The Uhlan's love

In this last volume of the novel about the Greifenklau family, the action takes place against the backdrop of the Franco-Prussian War in Paris , Algiers and finally at the gates of Sedan . In the end, all the branching threads of the tetralogy dissolve. The families separated by crimes and intrigues are reunited, and half a dozen Franco-German couples are about to get married.

  1. Revelations
  2. On secret routes
  3. Oh dear, a mistake!
  4. A visit to the Jehenna
  5. Trapped
  6. Blind zeal
  7. Thwarted plans
  8. Found again
  9. In the "center of the underworld"
  10. The past comes alive
  11. An hour of ultimate happiness
  12. father and son
  13. In Algiers
  14. The dandelion
  15. The "forest assistants"
  16. The collapse
  17. A hussar stroke
  18. Rallion's end
  19. Sergeant Pudding
  20. In the workshop of history
  21. The final settlement

Allah il Allah!

Vol. 60 1931 German hearts - German heroes

The Karl-May-Verlag tried to close a gap in the plot of volume 1 ( Through the desert ).

It tells the dangerous journey of Kara Ben Nemsi and Hajji Halef Omar through the desert from Tunisia via Tripoli to Egypt. For this, the publisher used a part of the colportage novel German Hearts, German Heroes , which is set in the Orient and which did not seem necessary for the process and understanding of the main plot (told in the three following volumes) ( The Queen of the Desert ). This was inserted into a newly written framework story and heavily edited. In addition to the necessary changes in the course of action, some of the people involved have also been renamed or added. The protagonist Oskar Steinbach became the first-person narrator Kara Ben Nemsi and his servant and protector Hajji Halef Omar was included in the plot and the dialogues. An English traveler to Egypt was renamed Sir David Lindsay.

  1. Kruger-Bei
  2. The khanum of Beni Sallah
  3. The Sheik of Beni Abbas
  4. A fist fight and a shooting competition
  5. In the "bed of stones"
  6. The fight for the oasis
  7. Sheik Tarik has proven itself
  8. The grave at the lake el Chiyam

The dervish

Vol. 61 1933 German hearts - German heroes

The main plot of the novel German Hearts, German Heroes was also worked on in depth by KM-Verlag. Some of the characters were renamed: The Apache chief is now called Winnetou, Old Firehand, Sam Hawkens, Will Parker, Dick Stone and the quirky English Lord Sir David Lindsay appear as heroic western men.

The now three-volume novel describes the fate of the German Adlerhorst family, whose members were scattered and enslaved around the world by the intrigues of criminals. The first band initially plays in Istanbul and Tunis, where some abducted women can be released from their captivity in the harem. In North America, too, members and friends of the Adlerhorst family fall into the clutches of unscrupulous criminals.

In the valley of death

Vol. 62 1934 German hearts - German heroes

The second part of this three-volume novel takes place in the Wild West, where many dangerous adventures have to be undertaken in search of the missing. In the valley of death, a place of horror, the threads of fate of those mentioned in the first volume finally come together.

Sable hunter and cossack

Vol. 63 1934 German hearts - German heroes

The trail of the not yet caught criminals and that of the last missing member of the Adlerhorst family lead to Russia . The long search ends among exiles in Siberia . There are still many exciting and sometimes humorous adventures to endure until the good end.

The bush ghost

Vol. 64 1935 The prodigal son

In this and the following volume, storylines from the five-volume colportage novel The Prodigal Son have been reworked into independent stories.

A gang of smugglers on the border to Bohemia ruthlessly exploits the social plight of the Saxon rural population until the detective Franz Arndt begins a breathtaking hunt for the bush ghost and his cronies. The plot was essentially taken from Volume 2 Die Slaven der Arbeit .

The stranger from India

Vol. 65 1939 The prodigal son

The stranger from India is a mysterious figure who appears one day in the old capital. He becomes the adversary of the sinister captain, who has been charged with numerous crimes. Little by little, events far back cleared up in favor of an innocent convict. The plot was essentially taken from volumes 1 The Slaves of Poverty and 5 The Slaves of Honor .

Further parts of the entire novel were published in volumes 74 to 76.

The whip miller

Vol. 66 1958 The way to luck

The many storylines of Karl May's colortage novel Der Weg zum Glück were edited by Karl May Verlag in such a way that each completed novel or short story emerged, which was then published in six different volumes. The action mostly takes place in the Bavarian mountains. In addition to the odd root sep, the fairytale king Ludwig II also appears.

The subjects of the story published here (published in this and the following volume) are love and hate, hunting a poacher and rescue from mountain distress. King Ludwig ensures that the poor but talented dairymaid Murenleni receives a sound vocal training. The tyrannical whip miller is shown his limits. In the end, he even has to fear that his crimes long ago will be exposed.

The silver farmer

Vol. 67 1959 The way to luck

The whip miller's dark past casts its shadow on the haughty silver farmer, the accomplice of his crimes. The Wurzelsepp and its allies are responsible for clarifying the questions and atoning for crimes.

The root sep

Vol. 68 1960 The way to luck

Here chapters 8 and 9 of the novel have been reworked into two independent stories.

  1. The money man - a smuggler's story on the Bohemian border
  2. The Samiel - an unscrupulous robber finds his master in the clever Sepp

Knights and rebels

Vol. 69 1960 The two Quitzow's last trips
  1. Suteminn, the lonely one
  2. The falcon master
  3. wild Water

The Karl May Verlag edited Karl May's first novel The Two Quitzow's Last Journeys here and divided it into three completed stories.

These take place in the Middle Ages and tell of the pacification of the Mark Brandenburg by Burggraf Friedrich von Nürnberg . His great adversary is the seedy robber baron Dietrich von Quitzow .

The ranger

Vol. 70 1959 Le Coureur de Bois
Cover of an early German edition of “Le Coureur de Bois” with a watercolor by Wilhelm Schäfer

In 1879 Karl May Gabriel Ferrys edited the novel Le Coureur de Bois, which played among rangers, Komantschen and Apatschen "for the youth". The storylines and episodes contained therein then served as templates for many of the novels and travel stories he wrote later. Figures that have become famous appear here in their original form. The Komantsche Falkenseye is a model for Winnetou.

  1. introduction
  2. The bonanza
  3. The last mediana
  4. The island in the Rio Gilo
  5. The warehouse
  6. In the gold thale
  7. Hawk Eye
  8. A savanna dish
  9. The siege
  10. Tracking
  11. Enough

Old Firehand

Vol. 71 1967 early texts

This volume contains various early texts by Karl May in the rough version, in which he introduces the characters for the first time. They formed the nucleus for the travel stories that were later written. Figures like Winnetou, Old Firehand or Sam Hawkens appear in their original form. In the story Inn-nu-wo, the Indian chief, Winnetou is still called Inn-nu-wuh and is a Sioux chief.

  1. Inn-nu-wo, the Indian chief
  2. Old Firehand
  3. The rose of Kahira
  4. A desert robbery
  5. The Both Shatters
  6. The gum
  7. Aqua benedetta
  8. A self-made man
  9. The Afrikaander
  10. The revenge of Ehri
  11. Ibn el 'amm
  12. Slave vengeance
  13. Maghreb-el-aqsa
  14. The two Kulledschi

Most of the stories come from the magazine Frohe Stunden .

Shaft and hut

Vol. 72 1968 Anthology

This anthology with essays and stories from Karl May's early days contains the following texts:

Title page of the magazine from 1876, published by H. G. Münchmeyer
  1. The conscience
  2. Wanda
  3. The carnival jesters
  4. Universe - earth - human
  5. Treasures and treasure diggers
  6. With steam around the globe
  7. Defense of a misunderstood
  8. Pray and work!
  9. The heroes of steam
  10. A royal proletarian
  11. Man's will is his heaven
  12. Honesty is the best
  13. Remember death!
  14. About friendship
  15. Autumn thoughts
  16. House and family speeches 1
  17. House and family speeches 2
  18. A light donor
  19. With the steam horse
  20. A well-known one now
  21. The Suez Canal
  22. Geographic sermons

These are mostly early works that have appeared in magazines that May himself edited ( Der Beobachter an der Elbe , Schacht und Hütte and Deutsches Familienblatt ).

Earlier editions still contained the stories Fundgrube "Father Abraham" (actually by August Peters ) and Ein Fang , which were temporarily assigned to May . The text Love according to its story , an excerpt from The Book of Love , was also removed after its inclusion in the Collected Works ( Volume 87 ).

The hawk

Vol. 73 1967 The way to luck

In this volume, too, an episode taken from the colportage novel The Way to Happiness is published as a single narrative. Circling menacingly like a hawk over Steinegg Castle, the avaricious Baron Alberg lurks over the legacy of his stepdaughter, the young lady of the castle Hilda. But also in this Bavarian story the Wurzelsepp and King Ludwig II appear and turn everything for the better.

The lost Son

Vol. 74 1985 The prodigal son

Editing of a storyline from Karl May's eponymous colportage novel (mainly taken from Die Slaven des Goldes ):

A lieutenant devoted to the game, on whose conscience weighs an old guilt, becomes more and more entangled in a web of crimes. Detective Franz Arndt, well known to the reader from "Buschgespenst", takes on the matter and successfully tries to rehabilitate innocent people. The lieutenant (here The Prodigal Son ) ends up committing suicide, and the innocently persecuted family is generously compensated.

Slaves of shame

Vol. 75 1993 The prodigal son

This volume contains part of the colportage novel The Prodigal Son (essentially taken from the second and third chapters of The Slaves of Shame and the first of The Slaves of Gold ).

In this crime story, which takes place in the Kingdom of Saxony, May also describes the social misery that prevailed there around 1870, in particular the exploitation of poor and naive young girls and women.

The hermit

Vol. 76 1994 The prodigal son

This volume contains further parts of the colportage novel The Prodigal Son . The novel is set in the 1860s and shows Karl May as an observer and critic of the social grievances of his time.

1. The Hermit

With the help of a wanted criminal and the wealthy “hermit”, heir-stalkers want to gain possession of the Barony of Helfenstein. This can be prevented, and a poor musician becomes the heir to a great fortune (essentially taken from the third chapter of The Slaves of Honor ).

2. Prisoners of need

It tells the episode about the writer Beyer and his daughter from Die Slaven der Arbeit . In the editing of the KM-Verlag there is a conciliatory end.

3. Appendix:

The Münchmeyer novels (Dr. EA Schmid , 1919)
The prodigal son ( Otto Eicke , 1936)

The duke's children

Vol. 77 1995 Forest rose

This is part of the colportage novel Das Waldröschen . A large part of the storylines that were not included in volumes 51-55 when the novel was edited in the 1920s have been combined into a further narrative. This reports at the beginning of the beginning of the feud between the Cortejo brothers and the Counts of Rodriganda. Later, the hero Karl Sternau is the focus of the adventure. The action takes place in Spain, France and Germany.

  1. Two German educators
  2. A 'conquest'
  3. The new governess
  4. The 'magic potion'
  5. Anita Valdez
  6. Rivals
  7. Meeting in Madrid
  8. A tragedy
  9. The girl from the Seine
  10. The wrong count
  11. Train accident on the Rhine
  12. Hunting adventure
  13. Doctor Karl Sternau
  14. Late repentance
  15. Revelations
  16. reconciliation
  17. Played out!

The Miramare Enigma

Vol. 78 1996 The way to happiness and German hearts - German heroes
Miramare Castle

This volume contains the stories:

  1. The Miramare Enigma
  2. In the vaults of Grafenreuth Castle

They have been removed from the original Kolporta novels and edited.

The cover story from The Path to Happiness tells of Wurzelsepp and the Bavarian fairy tale king Ludwig II. The traces of a gang of girl traffickers lead the heroes to Trieste on the Adriatic coast.

In the second part, the fate of the Adlerhorst family in Germany is told to the end as it was portrayed by Karl May in German Hearts - German Heroes - the end in "Zobeljäger und Kosak" is an invention of the editors of Karl May Verlag.

Old Shatterhand in the home

Villa bear fat
Vol. 79 1997 Biographical writings

This anthology contains a variety of essays and short narratives, such as:

  1. At home
  2. Open letters from a prisoner
  3. Behind the walls
  4. Ange et Diable
  5. Repertory C. May
  6. Goat or buck
  7. Otto Victor fragment
  8. A well-intentioned word
  9. Slaves of ambition
  10. A prairie fire
  11. 'Villa Bärenfett'
  12. Water rest on the march
  13. 'Buried spoon'
  14. Texas prairie fire
  15. The Somal Ostrich Riding
  16. For the first time on board
  17. The contortionist
  18. A seal hunt
  19. The death caravan
  20. The joys and sorrows of a well-read

Caught at sea

Vol. 80 1998 Anthology Early Winnetou Tales

In the title story, Prince Max von Schönberg-Wildauen is accused of murdering a Berlin jeweler. To escape prison, he flees to America, where he becomes a captain and a well-known pirate hunter. His fiancée's brother believes in the prince's innocence and sets out to find the real culprits. In America he finds support from famous western men and Winnetou. They chase the Black Captain across the prairie and eventually capture him on the high seas.

  1. Caught on the Sea (Was partly under the title Caught on the High Seas , novel from 1877/78)
  2. Winnetou (adaptation of the story of 1875 Inn-nu-wo, the Indian chief , 1878)
  3. An oil fire (youth story from 1882/83)
  4. Essay by Ekkehard Bartsch: "Karl Mays Winnetou - The development of a literary figure"

Abdahn Effendi

Vol. 81 2000 Anthology

The volume contains late oriental narratives, poetry, essays and other writings.

Abdahn Effendi is a smuggler on the Persian-Turkish border. There he runs his criminal business, supported by Turkish border guards, and harassed Ben Adl, the son of the deposed Persian border commander, and his wife, the daughter of the also deposed Turkish border commander. Kara Ben Nemsi and Halef solve the crimes and rehabilitate the former border commanders.

  1. Abdahn Effendi (travel story)
  2. Merhameh (travel story)
  3. Shamah (travel story)
  4. A Christmas party in Damascus (travel story, original title: With the lepers )
  5. The magic carpet ( parable for goats )
  6. A pilgrimage to the Orient (poems)
  7. Trip to Egypt (travel description)
  8. Parable of the Zeitun Bedouin
  9. Babel and the Bible (first version of the 2nd act and sketches)
  10. Paths to the summit - dramatic fragments
  11. To all of my dear well-wishers (birthday thanks)
  12. Letters about art
  13. My creed
  14. Theater (essay)
  15. Sûr le Rapprochement Franco-Allemand (article)
  16. Sitara, the land of the human soul (lecture)

In the stories (Nos. 1–4) May processed the impressions of his trip to the Orient in 1899/1900, during which he gained a completely new perspective. Then there is also the first version of the second act of his only completed play, Babel and Bibles , for which he struggled more than hardly any of his works. The letters on art and other essays complete the picture of May's later years.

In distant zones

Vol. 82 1999 Biographical writings

This volume about Karl May's world trips contains the following texts:

  1. Karl May's travels and their reality (preface, by Hans Wollschläger )
  2. Karl May and the early journey legends (by Amira Sarkiss )
  3. Karl May's Orientreise 1899/1900 (by Ekkehard Bartsch and Hans Wollschläger, with May's travel diary )
  4. Karl May in America (by Dr. Dieter Sudhoff , with traditions from May's lecture Three Human Issues )
  5. Detectives (afterword, by Lothar Schmid ).

The book was based on May's travel diaries, letters and postcards sent home, photographs and passages directly inspired by the trip.

On the torture stake

Vol. 83 2001 Biographical writings

This volume does not contain any fictional texts, but the following defensive and procedural documents:

  1. A trash publishing house (litigation in which Karl May settles accounts with his former publisher Heinrich Gotthold Münchmeyer)
  2. A trash publisher and its accomplices
  3. To the 4th criminal chamber of the Royal. District Court III in Berlin (pamphlet that should influence the court and press in the sense of May against Rudolf Lebius)

The Bowie Father

Vol. 84 2003 Anthology

The cover story is a chapter from the novel Die Juweleninsel , which was not included in volume 46 when it was edited by KM-Verlag. The Bowie father is a notorious Indian killer.

  1. The Bowie Father
  2. The oilprince
  3. A poet
  4. Risen from death
  5. Wild turkey hunting in Texas
  6. Jemmy's bear adventure
  7. Chief Firewater
  8. The first elk
  9. In the Mistake Canyon
  10. Tui Fanua
  11. An adventure in Ceylon
  12. A piece of old Dessau
  13. The Amsenhandler
  14. In the Seegerkasten
  15. The fateful New Year's Eve

Of wives and men of honor

Vol. 85 2004 Biographical writings

This collection of biographical and polemical writings from the years 1899 to 1910 contains the following texts:

  1. Mrs. Pollmer , a psychological study (accountability for the marriage to Emma Pollmer and its failure)
  2. Karl May and his opponents
  3. To the Dresdner Anzeiger
  4. Open letter to the chief editor of the "Kölnische Volkszeitung", Dr. phil. Hermann Cardauns
  5. From the May community camp
  6. The "rescue" of Mr. Cardauns
  7. Has Cardauns been rehabilitated?
  8. To the German press!
  9. Mr. Rudolf Lebius , his syphilis leaf and his Indian
  10. Trash and the hunger for fruit
  11. Trash and poison literature and Karl May, its relentless opponent (dispute with the colportage publisher Münchmeyer, written by Franz Langer)
  12. Aphorisms about Karl May
  13. For defense
  14. My confession
  15. Also "above the waters"
  16. Lebius, the "man of honor"
  17. Testimony for Klara May

My grateful readers

Vol. 86 2005 Biographical writings

This volume contains the text Karl May als Erzieher and The Truth about Karl May or The Opponents of Karl May in their own light by a grateful May reader . There is also a contribution by Christoph F. Lorenz: The truth about Karl May? or An author seeks his true readers . A large selection of letters from grateful readers is attached.

The brochure, published anonymously by May, contained 187 quotes from admirers, words of recommendation from German bishops and 27 press votes.

The book of love

Vol. 87 2006 Early work

The book of love was published in 1876 and can be considered Karl May's first work. It consisted of three departments:

  1. untitled (possibly completely by Karl May)
  2. Human venereal diseases and their cure. With special consideration of syphilis, its development and consequences (presumably by another author)
  3. Love according to its story. Presentation of the influence of love and its negations on the development of human society (partly by Karl May)

This book was banned in the Kingdom of Prussia and Austria-Hungary .

Deadly Dust

Vol. 88 2008 Winnetou trilogy

The volume contains the two older stories that Karl May included in the volume Winnetou III in 1893 after the necessary revision .

The story Deadly Dust ( Deadly Dust ) - published in 1880 - is about the hunt for criminals who rob and kill the prospectors.

  1. At the great western railway
  2. The stakemen
  3. Among the Comanches
  4. In California

In the story In the Wild West of North America - published in 1882/83 - Winnetou's death is described for the first time. In connection with this, the poem Ave Maria appears - also for the first time - and marks the origin of the Old Shatterhand legend.

  1. The Railtroublers
  2. Helldorf settlement
  3. On Hancock Mountain

In the far west

Winnetou and Ribanna; first Winnetou illustration from 1879.
Vol. 89 2011 Winnetou Trilogy & German Hearts - German Heroes

With the title story In the Far West, this volume continues the publication of the stories begun in the previous volume, Deadly Dust , which May later revised and included in the Winnetou trilogy. This text was the basis for the second half of Winnetou II and is itself one of the oldest book publications in May. In the Far West (1879) is an adaptation of the story Old Firehand (1875) for the youth. The main difference is that Old Firehand's daughter Ellen , with whom the narrator falls in love, has been replaced by a son named Harry and the love affair has been eliminated. For the main features of the content (relationships of the characters, fire in an oil valley, railroad robbery, attack on Old Firehands fortress) see here .

The second part of the volume is the text The Prince of Pale Faces . This is an excerpt from the novel German Hearts - German Heroes (1885–1888), which had already been published heavily edited in the Collected Works in In the Valley of Death (Chapters 1–6). In contrast to the version presented here, the original figures in volume 62 were converted by the publisher into those familiar from the travel stories (Winnetou, Old Firehand, Sam Hawkens and others), the main hero Oskar Steinbach was eliminated and further text changes made.

Both texts are concluded with afterwords by Christoph F. Lorenz on the history of the work.

Conspiracy in Vienna

Vol. 90 2014 The road to happiness, the prodigal son, early work
  1. Conspiracy in Vienna
  2. From the chalice of destiny
  3. The doppelganger
  4. The Laubtaler
  5. In the water baths
  6. The Ducat's Nest
  7. Torn (fragment)
  8. The prodigal son (fragment)
  9. In the eggs (fragment)
10. The Lord God Angel (fragment)

The title story Conspiracy in Vienna is the tenth chapter ( heart cramps ) of the colportage novel The Path to Happiness and takes place between the volumes Der Peitschenmüller / Der Silberbauer (apart from the end) and Das Rätsel von Miramare . In Vienna , the former lovers Murenleni and Krikelanton meet again, both of whom have since become celebrated singers, but whose lifestyle has developed in opposite directions. There is also a reunion with Fex, who for the recognition of his noble lineage processed . Both Fex and Leni are victims of a crime that Wurzelsepp tries to solve together with a new hero, Count von Senftenberg. The end then leads to the girl trafficking episode in Trieste . The transitions between the episodes of the Kolportage novel previously published as part of the Collected Works are not seamless, as the Vienna episode was, according to the publisher's own statements, hardly edited: For example, the happy ending between Murenleni and Krikelanton at the end of the Silberbauer volume did not come from May , which rather describes its final break in the Vienna episode, and the transition to the Trieste episode suffers from the deletion of Paula Kellermann in Das Rätsel von Miramare by the publisher .

The texts Aus dem Kelch des Schicksals and Der Doppelgänger contain episodes from the colportage novel Der verlorne Sohn (chapter A Magdalen dealer or God's criminal court ), which were rewritten by Franz Kandolf and appeared in magazines in the 1930s. In From the Chalice of Fate , the bookbinder Wilhelm Heilmann, who was innocent in prison, was accused of a new crime on the day of his release and was taken into custody. While May left his further fate open, Kandolf added the explanation of the old and the new crime to the episode. The captain of a smuggler's gang is in Der doppelganger on the run and throws a German-American who looks like him off a rock in order to assume his identity. Both episodes are later edited by the publisher - partly with recourse to Kandolf's versions - also in volume 74 The Prodigal Son (Chapters 1–3 and 18–20).

In Fret dollars , in the water column , the ducats Nest and the fragment in the eggs is Humoresken . The first and third stories are revisions that May made to the earlier versions Ausgeräuchert ( Professor Vitzliputzli , 5th story) and Im Seegerkasten ( Der Bowie-Pater , 14th story). Editions of the second and third stories by the publisher are available in the volume Professor Vitzliputzli (story 7 and 13). The two fragments The Prodigal Son and Der Herrgottsengel belong to the Erzgebirge village stories . While the first fragment has nothing to do with the similarly sounding Kolporta novel, the second is about the different beginning of the village story of the same name from the volume Der Waldschwarze . Also part of his early work is Zerrissen , a collection of sketches, some of which are related to the farce Die Pantoffelmühle .

The anthology is supplemented by comments by Christoph F. Lorenz on the circumstances in which the texts were created and the literary background.

Correspondence with Friedrich Ernst Fehsenfeld I

Vol. 91 2007 Correspondence

The volume contains the correspondence between Karl May, Felix Krais and Friedrich Ernst Fehsenfeld between 1891 and 1906.

The publisher Fehsenfeld was a co-founder of the Karl-May-Verlag. He approached Karl May in 1891 after reading a story by him. He recommended that he take the stories out of their fragmentation in the magazines, put them in books, and thus give them to the youth and the entire German people.

Correspondence with Friedrich Ernst Fehsenfeld II

Vol. 92 2008 Correspondence

The volume contains the correspondence between Karl May, Felix Krais and Friedrich Ernst Fehsenfeld between 1907 and 1912.

Correspondence with Sascha Schneider

Sascha Schneider (r.) With Karl May, 1904
Vol. 93 2009 Correspondence

This volume shows the friendship between Karl May and the artist Sascha Schneider (1870–1927). The letters date from the period 1903 to 1910. This is followed by the correspondence with Klara May after May's death until 1927. The appendix contains the foreword by Johannes Werner and a review by Paul Kühn about Sascha Schneider - title drawings for the works of Karl May from 1905. Illustrations of the title drawings and other Schneider works are interspersed.

Correspondence with Joseph Kürschner

Joseph furrier
Vol. 94 2013 Correspondence

The chronologically arranged letters of this volume can be assigned to three groups:

  • Correspondence with the publisher Joseph Kürschner from 1882 to 1897 regarding May's collaboration on Vom Fels zum Meer and Illustrirte Welt as well as on other projects (on this in the appendix, Kürschner's appeal: An Deutschlands Schriftstellerwelt , 1884)
  • Correspondence between Kürschner, the publisher Hermann Zieger and Hugo Fritzsche from 1901 about the anthology China. Descriptions from life and history, war and victory (1901), about May's travel story Et in terra pax , which makes up the majority of the fiction section of the China book, and about the illustrations created by Ferdinand Lindner for May's story (see appendix May's parable for Zieger , the prospectus for China and Kürschner's preface to the book edition, both 1901)

The volume begins with a comprehensive foreword by Hartmut Vollmer. The appendix also contains an obituary and reminder on the occasion of Kürschner's death in 1902.

Special books

The series of collected works (and letters) has been supplemented by special volumes since 1997. Their appearance corresponds to that of the green volumes, but can differ in color (blue instead of green) and size (large volumes). The volumes published so far can roughly be assigned to the following topics:

  • Biographies & Chronicles: Karl May Chronicle (5 vols. + Accompanying book, Dieter Sudhoff & Hans-Dieter Steinmetz ), Karl May and his time ( Gerhard Klußmeier & Hainer Plaul), Winnetou's blood brother ( Christian Heermann ), 365 days Karl May ( Hans-Dieter Steinmetz)
  • Aspects of life and work: In the kingdom of the red eagle (Anton Haider), Karl May on the Saxon paths (Christian Heermann), Karl May's path of peace (Holger Kuße), Karl May and music (with CD, Hartmut Kühne & Christoph F. Lorenz ), Nscho-tschi and her sisters (Katharina Maier), Old Shatterhand in court ( Jürgen Seul ), Between Heaven and Hell (Dieter Sudhoff / Christoph F. Lorenz)
  • Places in life and work: On Karl May's trail (Reinhard F. Gusky, Willi Olbrich, Roderich Haug & Falk Klinnert), On Winnetou's footsteps ( Thomas Jeier ), Karl May Atlas (Hans-Henning Gerlach), With Kara Ben Nemsi through the Orient (Karlheinz Eckardt)
  • Book editions & illustrations: Carl Lindeberg (Stefan Schmatz & Friedhelm Spürkel), The Cut Diamond ( Lothar Schmid & Bernhard Schmid), Karl May Bibliography 1913–1945 (Wolfgang Hermesmeier & Stefan Schmatz), Traumwelten - Pictures of Karl May's work (3rd Vol., Wolfgang Hermesmeier & Stefan Schmatz)
  • Thematic anthologies with May texts: At the source of the lion (hunt), For death or life (fight), Chronicle of a world runner (Hans Imgram, chronological arrangement of May texts), Durchs wilde Lukullistan (food & drink), a reading book , Fought for luck (love), My stallion Rih , The giant bullfrog (humor), Under full steam (railroad)
  • Foreign language editions: Vinnetv Tomus Tertius (Latin, Johannes Linnarz)
  • Film, stage and other adaptations: Figure worlds after Karl-May (Malte Ristau & Wolfgang Willmann), I was Winnetou's sister ( Marie Versini ), Karl May film picture stories (Michael Petzel), Karl May film book (Michael Petzel), Karl -May-Stars (Michael Petzel)
  • Prehistory & continuations: Fürst und Junker (3 vols., Friedrich Axmann , edited by Karl May, Prehistory to The Two Quitzow's Last Journeys ), Hajji Halef Omar ( Jörg Kastner , prequel to the Orient cycle ), Die Schatten des Schah-in-Schah ( Heinz Grill , alternative sequel to Im Reiche des silbernen Löwen I-II ), The Conspiracy of Shadows ( Otto Eicke , alternative sequel to Im Reiche des silbernen Löwen I-II )
  • Edited volumes on May-related topics: The blue snake (Karl May stories), Karl May in Hohenstein-Ernstthal 1921–1942 (Hans-Dieter Steinmetz, impact history, letters), Winnetou's red brothers (classic Indian stories )

The following are special volumes with May texts that have not already appeared in the main series:

In the realm of the red eagle

A letter from Karl May to Leopold Gheri
2006 Correspondence Subtitle: Karl May und Tirol by Anton Haider

This volume documents May's relations to Tyrol and contains

  • Correspondence with Countess Anna Jankovics from 1894 to 1907: a friendly relationship with a reader
  • Correspondence with Marie and Henriette Schrott from 1902 to 1913 a. a. regarding the separation of May's first wife Emma, ​​which took place in the Hotel Penegal of the Schrott family, and the aftermath of the divorce (with letters to and from Klara May)
  • Correspondence with the editor Leopold Gheri from 1902 to 1911, who campaigned for May during the press attacks and published May's letters about art in Der Kunstfreund (1906/07) (with letters to and from Klara May)

The relationships with the correspondence partners, them themselves and the marriage drama on the Mendel are examined in detail. In addition, the volume contains Gheri's (defense) writings on May, an exchange of letters (1928–1937) in which Gheri reports on his memories of May, as well as examples from his own poetic work.

Karl May and the music

1999 Serious Sounds & Legacies

This volume is dedicated to May's musical work as well as the importance of music in May's life and reception. The book comes with a CD with recordings of selected compositions and contributions from the reception.

Forget Me Not Manuscript
  • Compositions (with introduction and commentary by Hartmut Kühne):
  1. To the stars
  2. Ave Maria of the Gondoliers on the Traghetto della Salute
  3. Emergency tours
  4. Wanderlied (included on the enclosed CD)
  5. serenade
  6. warning
  7. serenade
  8. Christmas cantata
  9. Easter cantata ( score of the chorale)
  10. Our Father (without score)
  11. Serenade from "Die Pantoffelmühle" (included on the accompanying CD)
  12. Ave Maria , 1st version for male choir in E flat major
  13. Don't forget me (included on the enclosed CD)
  14. Ave Maria , 2nd version for mixed choir in B flat major (included on the accompanying CD)
  15. Now you go in peace (included on the accompanying CD)
  16. I asked to the stars (no score)
  17. Entrance choir from "Die Pantoffelmühle" (included on the enclosed CD)
  18. Aennchen's song from "Die Pantoffelmühle"
  19. The Jesuit from "The Slipper Mill"
  20. Blind and yet seeing (included on the enclosed CD)
  • "The Slipper Mill". Posse with song and dance in eight pictures (with an introduction by Christoph F. Lorenz)

More comments:

  • Karl May's musical life and pursuit (by Hartmut Kühne)
  • The Bards of Hakawati - Music for, for and to Karl May (by Christoph F. Lorenz)
  • Small Archeology of Karl May Music (by Michael Petzel)

See also

literature

  • Gert Ueding (Ed.): Karl May Handbook . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2001. ISBN 3-8260-1813-3 (detailed manual)

Web links

Wikisource: Karl May's Collected Works  - Sources and Full Texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lothar and Bernhard Schmid (eds.): The cut diamond. Karl-May-Verlag 2003, ISBN 3-7802-0160-7 , p. 445 f
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)