Figures from Karl May's works
The work of the German writer Karl May is one of the most extensive and well-known collections of adventure novels in the world. This article introduces the most important characters from Karl May's works .
Travel stories, youth stories about North America and late work
North America
main characters
Old Shatterhand
Winnetou
Important companions
Bloody Fox
Bloody Fox (Bloody Fox) is a minor character from the stories The Spirit of Llano Estacado and Old Surehand . He is a young white man who, as a child, was the only survivor of a bandit attack on his tour group. He has lost all memory of it except for the snapped up name Fox, who, in connection with his wound, gave him his name. He was adopted by the German resettler Helmers, who runs a farm on the edge of the Llano Estacado . Bloody Fox's life's work is to fight the band of robbers of the Llano, the so-called vultures , who lead travelers astray, let them languish and rob them. For this purpose he strolls through the desert in the costume of a white bison skin and kills people recognized as vultures with headshots in order to gradually eradicate the whole gang. His appearance led to mystifications among the bandits and the Indians, including superstition in a ghost that appears in several places at the same time. In the middle of the desert he discovered a fertile oasis that is unknown to the rest of the desert and which he uses as a base for his forays.
Dick Hammerdull & Pitt Holbers
Also called the wrong toasts because they always stand back to back in combat. Dick Hammerdull is described as short and fat; Pit Holbers as long and thin. However, this difference in height is compensated for by their horses so that their heads are at the same height when riding. They almost always appear together and, especially with regard to their entertainment, are well coordinated with one another. B. Hammerdull's constant question: "..., isn't it, Pitt Holbers, old Coon?" To which the old raccoon replies: "If you think, dear Dick, that ..., you seem to have hit the right thing." (Pitt Holbers usually only speaks when Dick asks him something and then only to agree with him.) Sometimes Dick replies again in this form: "Whether to be or not to be, it doesn't matter, if only it is."
The upside-down toasts first appeared in the story Auf der See gefangen (1878/79) and later made a major appearance in Old Surehand II (1895, contains the main story of Auf der See gefangen ; published by Karl May Verlag (KMV) under published under the title Captain Kaiman ) and Old Surehand III (1896), as well as the short stories Old Cursing-Dry (Fehsenfeld and KMV God lets not scoff (in On Stranger Paths , 1897) and KMV from 1951 Der Flucher ) and Mutterliebe (1897 / 98, in the KMV The Sons of Upsaroka ). In the novel Winnetou's heirs , they were only written into the novel by the original person Max Pappermann in a later adaptation by Karl May Verlag.
Dicker Jemmy & Langer Davy
The thickness Jemmy (Jakob Pfefferkorn) is a small, fat West man always together with the Langen Davy occurs. He comes from Germany and often fights apparently serious but actually teasing verbal battles in Saxon dialect with the hobble Frank . The Long Davy (David Kroner) is American ( Yankee ). The two appear in Der Sohn des Bärenjäger (1887), Der Geist des Llano estakado (1888, both since 1890 in The Heroes of the West ) and Der Schatz im Silbersee (1890/91).
Hobble Frank
Hobble Frank (Heliogabalus Morpheus Edeward Franke) is a small, skinny, limping Westman who comes from Moritzburg in Saxony, where he was a forest assistant. There he lives (when he is not in the United States) in his villa Bärenfett and writes for the youth magazine Der gute Kamerad (an allusion to a magazine that Karl May wrote for). Hobble-Frank was also used by Karl May as a pseudonym for the publication of texts: u. a. "Villa Bärenfett" (1889), The contortionist (1890).
Hobble Frank got his nickname (English to hobble 'hobble') since an Oglala Indian shot him in the foot ( The Bear Hunter's Son , first part of the book Unter Vultures in the KMV ). He is Aunt Droll's cousin . He often denies apparently serious, but actually teasing, verbal battles in Saxon dialect with the fat Jemmy or Aunt Droll ; sometimes funny misunderstandings of classic quotes or terms happen to him (“Elise” instead of “ Elysium ”). The hobble Frank appears in several youth stories and became an extremely popular character. Karl May uses him to convey information to his (young) readers on various occasions. The Hobble Frank is one of the few main characters who do not always slavishly follow the instructions of the superheroes Old Shatterhand , Winnetou and Old Firehand and who sometimes get their own way. This aspect was partially lost in the processing of the KMV.
Tales with Hobble Frank: The Bear Hunter's Son (1887), The Spirit of Llano Estakado (1888, both in The Heroes of the West since 1890 ), The Treasure in Silbersee (1890/91), The Oelprinz (1893/94, book editions from 1905 ad T. Der Ölprinz ), The black Mustang (1896/97).
Old Firehand
Old Firehand bears this name because he is one of the best marksmen. In the story of the same name (1875, the revised version In the Far West (1879) was later revised again as the second part of the travel story Winnetou II (1893)), he is described as a giant who has already "the summer of life behind him" . He was the chief forester in Germany. He emigrated to the USA with his (first) wife and left his son with a wealthy family in the east to make his fortune in the west. His wife died during the crossing.
He is a friend of Winnetou. In the second part of Winnetou he gets to know Old Shatterhand. Old Firehand, like Old Shatterhand and Winnetou, is a perfectionist, but who is rash when it comes to his tragic past, which is rarely the case. The novel tells that Old Firehand, like Winnetou, fell in love with Ribanna , the daughter of chief Tah-scha-tunga of the Assineboins, and married her. They had a son together, Harry. (In the original version of the story it is a daughter, Ellen.) Ribanna and another daughter are murdered.
The Old Firehand, which appears in the youth narrative Der Schatz im Silbersee (1890/91), has a comparable body shape, but is described as only about 40 years old and is called Winter (without mentioning a first name).
Despite the same name, the two characters cannot be completely reconciled due to the originally different readership of the two works.
As part of the Collected Works , Old Firehand appears in two other volumes:
- Joe Burkers, das Einaug (in Halbblut , 1916, no longer included since 1997), a compilation from The Both Shatters (1882) and Ein Oelbrand (1882/83). The anonymous first-person narrator or Old Shatterhand was rewritten to Old Firehand.
- In the Valley of Death (1934), an adaptation of the gossip novel German Hearts - German Heroes (1885–1887).
In the Karl May film Winnetou and his friend Old Firehand (1966) he is played by the Canadian actor Rod Cameron , who does not come close to the role model of Karl May. In the film, his private name is Jason Waade , which goes back to the main character of the original American script, which had no relation to Karl May. Actually, Old Firehand should have played the leading role in the film version of The Treasure in Silbersee . However, the producers thought it would be better to introduce Old Shatterhand as the main character first, and let the story simply rewrite (and change much more of the plot).
Old Surehand & Apanatschka
Old Surehand's real name is Leo Bender . He plays the leading role in the travel stories Old Surehand I and III (published 1894 to 1896) and also appears at the end of Volume II . His name is supposed to mean that he can hit any target with his rifle bullet. In the book he is described as a real giant of shape with long brown hair, whose muscles and tendons are in complete harmony with one another.
Apanatschka ( Christian name : Fred Bender ) is the brother of Old Surehand, but lives as the chief of the Comanches as the adopted child of his aunt Tokbela .
They only get to know each other in the course of the novel; their relationship is not revealed until the third volume by Old Shatterhand . The reader only learns about the prehistory gradually: The Bender family was separated decades ago by tragic events. Both father was a "pale face", the mother is a baptized Indian woman whose Christian name is Emily Bender , but disguised as a male Indian, calls herself Kolma Puschi (also Putschi, "dark eye") and is looking for her two missing sons. While Old Surehand still remembers the events and is looking for mother, aunt and brother, Apanatschka is later surprised by the revelations. Only Old Shatterhand recognizes the connections after more than thirty years and brings the family back together.
In Winnetou IV both brothers are mentioned once: Old Surehand and Apanatschka are rich horse breeder and both have married a Mescalero Apache. Her sons are called Young Surehand and Young Apanatschka .
In the Karl May film Old Surehand Part 1 , Old Surehand is played by Hollywood actor Stewart Granger . The film plot is only very freely based on Karl May and has nothing to do with the book. In the film, Old Surehand is said to be privately called Johnny Garden . The other two Old Surehand novels were never made into a film.
Sam Hawkens
Sam Hawkens is the companion and first Wild West teacher of the first-person narrator, who is given the name Old Shatterhand in his presence , and accompanies him on his first, but also on later adventures ( Old Firehand (1875), Der Oelprinz (1877, not identical to the youth narrative), In the far west (1879), Winnetou I (1893), Winnetou II (1893), Der Oelprinz (1893/94, book versions since 1905 as Der Ölprinz )).
Hawkens is a short, humorous man, yet brave and loyal. He was once scalped by the Indians and therefore wears a wig, which occasionally gives rise to cheerful situations. His rifle Liddy , which is more like a beating than a rifle, his mule Mary and his constant saying “ if I'm not mistaken, hihihihi ” are his distinguishing marks. He mostly describes Old Shatterhand as a greenhorn , but he has to be rescued from tricky situations again and again and often ensures that plans go wrong. In Winnetou I, thanks to his plan, in cooperation with the Kiowas, he succeeds in outsmarting the Apaches.
In the youth story Der Oelprinz , Sam Hawkens is portrayed as a German whose real name is Samuel Falke ; in Old Firehand , Hawkens is not unfamiliar with the German language, but his origins are not discussed. In the book version of Der Oelprinz , 1897, the German origin was specified and Sam Hawkens now came from Saxony.
Sam and the secondary characters Dick Stone and Will Parker form the so-called "clover" in the Wild West of Karl May. Both often tease him about the fact that his "student" Old Shatterhand surpasses his teacher in many ways.
In the KMV adaptations of the Kolportageromans Deutsche Herzen - Deutsche Helden ( In the valley of death , Zobeljäger and Kosak (both 1934)) Sam Hawkens takes on the role of the western man Sam Barth .
In the Karl May films of the 1960s, Sam Hawkens was portrayed by the German actor Ralf Wolter .
Aunt Droll
Aunt Droll (Sebastian Melchior Pampel) is a detective and western man from Altenburg ( Langenleuba-Niederhain ). He's the cousin of Hobble Frank . He got his name because of his long womanly robe and his fistulous, high-pitched voice. He made his first appearance in the youth story Der Schatz im Silbersee (1890/91), in which he met his cousin Hobble Frank for the first time after childhood. He becomes wealthy by participating in the profits in the silver mine. The so-called Tante Droll also appears in the youth stories Der Oelprinz (1893/94) and The Black Mustang (1896/97).
Adversary
Cornel Brinkley
Mutilation of "Colonel", Colonel - "The Red Brinkley". Leader of tramps (bandits) in the novel "The treasure in the silver lake". Got the auricles cut off by an Indian out of revenge. He dies with the rest of the tramps on the Indian torture stake.
In the film adaptation of the novel , he is portrayed by the German-speaking Herbert Lom .
Harry Melton
The Mormon Harry Melton , the title character Satan in the novel Satan and Ischariot I – III , meets Old Shatterhand in the “Meson de Madrid” of Guaymas in Mexico , where he recruits Germans to work for the owner of the Hacienda del Arroyo, Timoteo Pruchillo Contracts are written in such a way that they are tied to the Hacienda del Arroyo. Later he leaves the hacienda by his allies, the Yuma , attacked and burned down, so that he, the property together with the associated mercury - mine can buy Almaden alto cheap by the previous owner. The recruited workers and their relatives are taken to Almaden alto, where they have to mine mercury for him in captivity. Old Shatterhand manages to free them again and to take Harry Melton prisoner. Melton is extradited to the Yuma chief "Cunning Snake", but is able to escape. As Hudson's clerk, he sneaks into attorney Fred Murphy's office to cover up his nephew Jonathan's frauds regarding old Hunter's fortune. On the run from Old Shatterhand, Winnetou and Emery Bothwell , he is murdered by his brother Thomas while fighting over the only horse.
Thomas Melton
Thomas Melton , the brother of Harry Melton , father of Jonathan Melton and title character Iscariot in the novel Satan and Iscariot I – III , evaded Old Shatterhand prosecution years ago for card games and murder by fleeing to Tunisia . There he lives under the false name Kalaf Ben Urik as a captain of the army, his superior and patron is Krüger-Bei. During the suppression of an uprising of Uled Ayar- Bedouin runs it to blackmail these over and attracts Kruger case in a trap to a ransom. In the course of this turmoil he also murders the millionaire's son Small Hunter, whose place is then taken by his son Jonathan in order to get his legacy. Kara Ben Nemsi takes both Meltons prisoner, but they break free and flee to New Orleans . Later, while fleeing from his pursuers Winnetou, Old Shatterhand and Emery Bothwell, he murders his own brother Harry so that he can continue to flee with his horse. After being captured again, he wants to buy himself free by betraying his son. When he can no longer see a way out, he kills himself.
Jonathan Melton
Jonathan Melton , the son of Thomas Melton and nephew of Harry Melton , looks very similar to the millionaire heir Small Hunter. He sneaks the trust of Small Hunter, travels with him to the Orient and meets his father in Tunis , who lives there under the name Kalaf Ben Urik . Thomas Melton murders Small Hunter, and Jonathan takes his place to become his millionaire inheritance in America . In New Orleans he meets Judith Silberstein, who - attracted by his wealth - flees with him from Old Shatterhand, Winnetou and Emery Bothwell, who have been on his heels since Tunis. After his capture, he learns of his father's death, which leaves him completely cold. He dies in prison while serving his sentence.
Old Wabble
Old Wabble alias Fred Cutter is a character from the travel stories Old Surehand I (1894, in which May integrated his first appearance in the story The First Elk (1893)) and Old Surehand III (1897). He is over 90 years old, used to be a cowboy and is nicknamed the king of cowboys and “Indian killer”. He is a trained trapper , rider and marksman ( western man ). At first he is a companion of Old Shatterhand and Winnetou. However, since there were repeated differences of opinion between him and Old Shatterhand, for example about the worldview and dealing with Indians, as well as competitions, he finally joined the crook Daniel Etters alias the General and made himself the enemy of Old Shatterhand and Winnetou. First, Cutter and Etters steal their rifles, later Old Wabble carried out several unsuccessful attempts at murder on Old Shatterhand and captured him with the help of a gang of tramps . Shortly before he dies after an act of violence, he reconciles with Old Shatterhand. He never believed in God, but he still prays with Old Shatterhand as his death approaches.
Old Wabble is a character that shows the change from a comrade to an opponent of the main heroes.
In the Old Surehand Karl May films with Stewart Granger , Old Wabble is a dumb, clumsy, middle-aged companion (" Sidekick ") of the same. He considers himself a western man , but depends on his partner's guidance and protection. In the films he is portrayed by the Yugoslav actor Milan Srdoč , who was given the English name Paddy Fox by the producers . In his private life, Old Wabble is said to be called Jeremy Sanders in the film Old Surehand Part 1 .
Santer
Santer (first name: none in the book; Frederick in the film) is the murderer of Intschu tschuna and Nscho-tschi. In the volume Winnetou I (1893) it only appears in the 6th chapter (in the KMV version: 19th chapter), in the 1963 film Winnetou 1st part by Harald Reinl , in which it is played by Mario Adorf , on Beginning, where he practically takes over the starting part of the fictional character Rattler and also murders Klekih-petra. In the novel trilogy he dies in the 3rd volume , in the film it dies at the end of the 1st part. In the second band Santer has also made an appearance. In Winnetou IV (1910) the reader learns that Santer has two sons still alive who are ashamed of their father's deeds and secretly seek to protect Old Shatterhand / Karl May and his wife on their trip to America.
Tangua
Tangua is the chief of the Kiowas . It appears in the Winnetou volumes I, III (both 1893) and IV (1910). He is hostile to the Apaches . His tribe, spurred on by white traders, tried to steal horses from the Apaches, but failed, so he accepted Sam Hawkens' offer to lure the Apaches into a trap. After this was successful, but Winnetou and his father were freed by Old Shatterhand, he wanted to kill the remaining Apache prisoners immediately, but was taken hostage by Old Shatterhand and his friends. His offer not to kill the prisoners if Old Shatterhand wins a knife fight against Blitzmesser is accepted by the latter. After the fight is won, the prisoners are not killed, but he simply wants to starve them, but this does not happen because shortly afterwards the Apaches brought by Winnetou and his father overpower and capture everyone. For a ransom they are released by the Apaches.
During the captivity of the whites around Old Shatterhand with the Apaches, Tangua intrigues against them and twisted the facts. After Old Shatterhand convicted him of several lies and intrigues to the detriment of the Apaches and was permanently paralyzed by them in a duel, he is finally cast out by the Apaches, which intensifies his hostility to the Apaches. After Santer had killed Nscho-chi and Intschu-chuna, he temporarily gave shelter. After Winnetou was killed, Tangua's men succeed in arresting Old Shatterhand, who escapes. His beloved son Pida, however, is not hostile to Old Shatterhand.
In Winnetou IV , Tangua is again introduced as one of the most unforgiving enemies of Old Shatterhand. In the end, Tangua and Old Shatterhand become friends. However, he behaves honorably here.
In the film Winnetou Part 1 , Tangua is portrayed by the Yugoslav actor Tomislav Erak .
Tokvi Kava (Black Mustang)
Tokvi Kava is a chief of the Naiini- Komantschen who wants to raid a railway camp with his “half-blooded” grandson Ik Senanda, the son of his daughter and a white man. The name means "The Black Mustang", after which the youth story is named. Winnetou and Old Shatterhand, together with "Timpes" heirs, Hobble-Frank and Aunt Droll, prevent the attack.
Other key figures
Ellen
In the original version of the Old Firehand tale, which was later incorporated into "Winnetou II", Ellen is the daughter of Old Firehand and Ribannas. The first-person narrator gets to know her and falls in love with her. Due to the rather superficial change from the figure of the adult Ellen to a youthful Harry , which May himself made, some dialogues read rather strange from today's perspective.
Intschu Tschuna
Intschu tschuna is the chief of the Mescalero Apache and father of Winnetou and Nscho-tschi .
Intschu tschuna (Good Sun) is portrayed by Karl May as an older, more serious and stricter counterpart to Winnetou. He appears as the original owner of the silver rifle that became known as the Winnetou rifle.
In the novel Winnetou I (1893) he contests an unequal duel with the captured Old Shatterhand, the outcome of which should be seen as a divine judgment. Despite a better starting position, he loses to a ruse by Old Shatterhand, who is then considered a free man.
Intschu tschuna, like his daughter Nscho-tschi, is murdered by the bandit Santer when he tries to get gold from a hiding place that is supposed to be used for his daughter's education.
In Karl May's case, Intschu tschuna only appears in the novel Winnetou I. He is only mentioned briefly in other stories. Karl May wrote nothing about Intschu tschuna's earlier life or the origin of the silver rifle. This gap is closed by the team of authors Jutta Laroche / Reinhard Marheinecke , who write stories in the spirit and style of Karl May, in the novel "Winnetous Childhood". Intschu tschuna received the silver box as a gift from a Spanish count as thanks for his help in the fight against predatory Mexicans.
In the film adaptation of Winnetou 1st part Intschu tschuna is portrayed by the Yugoslav actor Mavid Popović .
Klekih-petra
Klekih-petra was a 1848er who emigrated from Germany and lives with the Apaches as a wise father . He accompanies Winnetou and Intschu tschuna in Winnetou vol. 1 (1892) to the surveyor's camp to mediate. He is shot by Rattler when he throws himself in front of Winnetou, and asks young Charley (= Old Shatterhand) with his last words to take care of Winnetou. Klekih-petra's death is the main cause of the subsequent attacks by the Apaches.
In the film Winnetou Part 1 , Klekih-petra is portrayed by the Yugoslav actor Hrvoje Svob.
Kolma Puschi
Kolma Puschi (= dark eye / black eye ), actually Tehua (= sun ) or Emily Bender , is a baptized Moqui Indian , the wife of the merchant Bender , the mother of Apanatschka and Old Surehand (actually Fred and Leo Bender ), the older sister by Tokbela and Ikwehtsi'pa - a central figure in the Surehand trilogy and in Winnetou IV .
In the Surehand trilogy, she went with her siblings to the East in order to “acquire the knowledge and manners of the pale faces”, where she married the businessman E. Bender and rejected the advances made by his stepbrother Daniel Etters . This (together with Lothaire Thibaut ) then wrongly brought her, her husband and her brother to the penitentiary, where her husband died. She and her brother were released. On the way to a gold placer, both were ambushed by Etters and Thibaut . Etters murdered Ikwehtsi'pa , Kolma Puschi was tied to his grave and left to her fate. Chief Tusahga Saritsch saved her, desired her to be a wife, but renounced her when she defeated him in a duel. When Kolma Puschi returned to the East, her children and sister had disappeared. She went west to track down Thibaut and Etters . There she is only known as a male Indian who knows how to wield his weapons, under the name of Kolma Puschi , as a "puzzling personality", as an "Indian whom no one knew better, who did not belong to any people and who proudly met everyone rejected ”. The similarity with Winnetou is astonishing : like him, Kolma Puschi has long, dark hair "tied in a forelock from which it [...] fell down over the back to the ground"; she is older than Winnetou ,
- “But you can still see today that it must have been beautiful once. His facial features were serious and severe [...] How could the hard, relentless streak surrounding his full lips be brought into harmony with the wonderful, mild shine of his eyes [...]? "
All this is the prehistory of the trilogy. This begins 30 years after the events described above. When Old Shatterhand meets her or him - because he has to think of her as a man - for the first time, in the third volume of the trilogy, he / she is sitting in the wilderness, singing with a high male baritone or a very low female alto. He / she frees Old Shatterhand , Winnetou and their companions from the hands of Old Wabble . Old Shatterhand recognizes in her the mother Apanatschkas and Old Surehands and brings the family back together. Your revenge against Thibaut is done by Shahko Matto's duel with him, the one against Etters by his fall from the rock.
In Winnetou IV she is called the Kolma Putschi throughout . She is a friend of Kakho-oto . It has changed a lot since the earlier events:
- “Her previously so elastic form had bent. Her shiny gray hair was wrapped around her uncovered head in thin braids. Her very aged face was made up of many small, tiny, tightly packed lines. And yet it was beautiful, this face. It possessed that beauty speaking from within, which is called age beauty. It tends to be the product of much suffering and thinking. "
Kolma Putschi is a spiritually and spiritually gifted woman who is in correspondence with Karl Mays / Old Shatterhand's wife Herzle . Along with their sons and grandsons ( Young Apanatschka and Young Surehand ) she adores the monument Winnetou at Mount Winnetou is to be built. However, Herzle and Old Shatterhand succeed in convincing them of the falseness of the monument project with the help of Sascha Schneider's Winnetou picture and with a reading from Winnetou's will.
Katharina Maier has dedicated an impressive chapter to her / him in her book Nscho-chi and her sisters .
Nscho-chi
Nscho-chi ('Beautiful day') is the daughter of the Apache chief Intschu chuna and sister of Winnetou.
In the novel Winnetou I (1893) she takes care of the captured Old Shatterhand and falls in love with him. Her father wants to give her an apprenticeship in St. Louis at her request . On the way to a hidden source of gold at “Nugget-Tsil”, Nscho-chi and her father are murdered by the bandit Santer.
In the film adaptation of Winnetou Part 1 , Nscho-chi is portrayed by the French actress Marie Versini . Here, too, she is killed by Santer, played by Mario Adorf . In the film Winnetou and his friend Old Firehand (1966) , which is not based on any book by Karl May, she plays again.
In the animated series WinneToons , adventures with Winnetou, Old Shatterhand and Nscho-chi are told from the time between the blood brotherhood of Winnetou and Old Shatterhand up to the events at Nugget-Tsil with Santer (these are also not based on any book).
Marie Versini is so closely linked to the role of Nscho-chi that she named her autobiography I Was Winnetou's Sister (Karl-May-Verlag, Bamberg - ISBN 3-7802-0164-X ).
Ribanna
Although Ribanna , a chief daughter of the Assineboins tribe , is only mentioned in one story and its revisions, her character is downright legendary. She is the only woman Winnetou has ever shown interest in. However, she marries Old Firehand , has two children with him and is murdered by a rejected suitor. It is mentioned in Old Firehand (1875), In the Far West (1879) and Winnetou II (1893).
In the film Winnetou Part 2 , Ribanna is portrayed by the German actress Karin Dor , who was married to the director of the film, Harald Reinl , at the time . In the film Winnetou and Ribanna fall in love, but she marries the son of the commandant of Fort Niobrara, played by Mario Girotti (= Terence Hill ), in order to seal the peace between Indians and whites.
Animals
Hatatitla
Hatatitla is the Indian name of the black horse of Old Shatterhand , which was given to him by Winnetou, meaning lightning . Hatatitla has a brother, Iltschi (Wind), who is ridden by Winnetou.
Ilchi
Iltschi is a horse owned by Winnetou. He is a black horse , just like his brother Hatatitla , whom Winnetou gives to his blood brother, the first-person narrator Old Shatterhand .
In the actual Winnetou trilogy, the heroes' horses are not named by name. However, since these were known to readers from the other novels, the Karl May Verlag made sure to explicitly name the black horses as Iltschi and Hatatitla. As a result, Iltschi was shot after Winnetou's death, Winnetou was placed on him and buried. According to Karl May, Iltschi and Hatatitla should be translated as wind and lightning .
Swallow
Swallow is the name of the horse given to Old Shatterhand in the novel Winnetou II (1892, previous versions Old Firehand (1875) and In the Far West (1879)). It gets its name because of its speed. In the story Die Both Shatters (1881), Swallow is ridden by an anonymous first-person narrator.
Orient and Sitara
main characters
Hajji Halef Omar
Kara Ben Nemsi
Important companions
Ben Nile
Ben Nil is a loyal and brave companion of the first-person narrator in Egypt and Sudan. The figure was apparently one of Karl May's favorite characters - he even mentions the young companion on various postcards that he himself sent to Germany in 1899 after his trip to the Orient. He wrote in it that Ben Nil was sitting next to him on the divan and would be helping to sign the card. In fact, there is a signature in Arabic script on these cards.
Reïs Effendina
The Reïs Effendina (captain of our lord, actually Achmed Abd el Insaf , Achmed, servant of justice ) is a central figure in the travel story Im Lande des Mahdi I-III (1896), which is a trilogy about the struggle of the "good" against slave traders Represents Nile. He is a neatly dressed, distinguished Egyptian officer who reports directly to the viceroy and who has extensive powers in the fight against organized crime. In this context, he mainly persecutes and sets up slave trade rings, whose relatives he quickly tried and executed after their capture. He meets the hero of the trilogy, Kara Ben Nemsi Effendi, and allies with him against evil . His engagement against human kidnapping and trafficking earns him the respect of Kara Ben Nemsi. But in the course of the story there are more and more differences of opinion between the two, among other things about the punishment of the prisoners, who Kara Ben Nemsi likes to spare, but who always wants to kill Reïs Effendina immediately ("Woe to him who hurts"), what he also occasionally interspersed. After he finally sees Kara Ben Nemsi no longer as his partner but as his subordinate, despite his self-sacrificing service to their common cause, and envies him for his authority over his subordinates and for his successes, a rift breaks out between the two.
Selim
Selim is a minor character in the Mahdi trilogy . He is a long, thin Bedouin and is initially a servant of the Turkish Murad Nassyr, but after his criminal plans became known, he later joins Kara Ben Nemsi, whose companion he is on the way south. He likes to talk about his alleged courage, but himself regularly avoids dangers. He puts Kara Ben Nemsi and his plans in danger several times through clumsiness.
Sir David Lindsay
also: Lord David Lindsay . In search of adventure, the quirky Englishman accompanies the hero Kara Ben Nemsi in the first three volumes of the Orient cycle (1892) and appears again in the last. Lindsay's great passion is initially the search for Assyrian stone sculptures in the form of winged bulls, which in Karl May's sometimes questionable English he calls fowling bulls . Later he wants to go on the same trips as his friend Kara Ben Nemsi.
“The Lord is said to be a gray-clad guy - with blue glasses, with a long, red nose and with a very wide mouth.” (Quote from: Der Schut ) He had “a long, narrow face, from his lower half of a reddish mustache dripped down; the wide mouth, which now had an opening as large as that of the Gotthard tunnel; the long nose, threefold enlarged by the Aleppo owl , and above it a completely shaved, white, shining head, on the apex of which only a single pigtail remained ”. (Quote from: From Baghdad to Stambul )
Despite his quirky nature, he is a courageous and clever man who is a loyal - and generous - companion to Kara Ben Nemsi. In the volume Im Reiche des Silber Löwen III (1902) he is brought on a ship by Kara Ben Nemsi and disappears from the novels forever. His further fate is unknown.
Karl May describes in Joys and Sorrows of a Well-Read Man (1896) how he receives a letter from Lindsay in Radebeul and mentions that he found coal fields and gold in Australia.
In the KMV - adaptations of the Kolportageromans German hearts - German heroes (1885-1887) Derwisch (1933), In the valley of death and sable hunter and Cossack (both 1934) he takes on the role of Lord Eaglenest .
In Karl May films he appears in Die Sklavenkarawane (1958) and The Lion of Babylon (1959) (both played by Theo Lingen ), in Der Schut (1964), Durchs Wilde Kurdistan (1965) and In the Reiche des Silberern Löwen (1965) (played by Dieter Borsche ) and in the television series Kara Ben Nemsi (1973 and 1975) (played by Ferdy Mayne ). In the 7-part radio play Through the Desert (WDR 1964), the role of Heinz von Cleve is spoken. In the films made in the 1960s, Lindsay is accompanied by a servant, Archie ( Chris Howland ), who is in constant feud with Hajji Halef Omar ( Ralf Wolter ).
Adversary
Mübarek
The Mübarek appears in volumes 4–6 . He is a member of the criminal organization around the Schut . In Ostromdscha, a small town in the Balkans, he initially pretends to be a holy Mübarek who inspires awe among the population with his "clattering bones". He is identical to a poor man named Busra who pretends to be dependent on donations from the population and who walks on crutches. He changes from one role to the other without being recognized. He simulates the supposed rattle of bones as a mubarek with the crutches under his wide robe. In the further course of the plot he tries several times to kill Kara Ben Nemsi .
The Austrian actor Friedrich von Ledebur plays the role of Mübarek in the film Der Schut (1964) and the German actor Hans Epskamp in the television series Kara Ben Nemsi Effendi (1973 and 1975) .
Murad Nassyr
Murad Nassyr is a central figure in the Mahdi trilogy . He is a fat Turk and a villain in the retinue of the slave hunter Ibn Asl. In Cairo he meets Kara Ben Nemsi and, through hospitality, sneaks into his trust. Under false pretenses, he persuades him to travel inland up the Nile, but confronts him in Korosko with his real intention to use Kara Ben Nemsi as an assistant in the slave trade for a high reward. When he outraged refuses, he declares himself to be his enemy and hunts him down several times. His servant Selim finally sticks to Kara Ben Nemsi.
Schut
The Schut alias Kara Nirwan is the head of a criminal gang in the Balkans, which extends its activities to North Africa. His pseudonym is derived from his yellowish complexion (Serbo-Croatian žut "yellow"). He has his seat in the "Kara Nirwan Khan" (in the KMV editions from 1948/49 Kara Nirwan Han ). It only appears in volume 6 ( Der Schut , 1892), but is already mentioned in volumes 4 ( In the gorges of the Balkans ) and 5 ( Through the land of the Skipetaren , both 1892). He is pursued by Kara Ben Nemsi and tries to kill him. He himself dies in an accident at the end of the story while being chased.
In the film Der Schut (1964) the Italian actor Rik Battaglia plays and in the television series Kara Ben Nemsi Eduardo Fajardo plays the role of Schut.
Other key figures
Kruger-Bei
In the story Der Krumir (1882) Kara Ben Nemsi meets Krüger-Bei, the "original leader of the Tunisian body troops [...] [he] came as the son of a brewer from the> sand can of the Holy Roman Empire of the German nation. <[…] [The] denied fatherland swore revenge for him. […] [It] let a full five tireless gods of revenge attack him, and their names were nominative, genitive, dative, accusative and syntax. ”Kara Ben Nemsi reports on another meeting in Der Schut (1892). Later in Satan and Iscariot II (1897), Kara Ben Nemsi, Winnetou and Sir Emery Bothwell seek out Krüger-Bei in search of the villain Thomas Melton to serve under him. This figure is based on the historical personality Johann Gottlieb Krüger , who May also had in the colportage novel German Hearts - German Heroes (1885–1888).
Marah Durimeh
The Catholic Kurdish Marah Durimeh occupies a special position in the Karl May universe. In the travel story Durchs Wilde Kurdistan (1892) she is the Ruh 'i kulyan ' The Spirit of the Cave '. Kara Ben Nemsi comes into contact with her for the first time when he saves the life of her great-granddaughter Shakara, who has poisoned herself with belladonna (see Chapter 3 In the fortress ; edited by Karl May Verlag: A happy cure ) .
“'Save her', came a voice from the background of the room, 'you shall have wealth and be God's darling!' [...] She was certainly a hundred years old, but her eyes had a youthful glow; her features were strangely beautiful and soft, and heavy white braids hung from her head almost to the floor. "
Later, the spirit of the cave can end the enmity between two warring parties because it is respected as a kind of saint from all sides (see Chapter 7 The Spirit of the Cave ; in the KMV version: Chapter 20 Marah Durimeh ).
“'What did you talk to her?' - 'This is a secret and will remain a secret. Chodih, this woman is actually a Melika (Queen), and what she said to us has put our hearts at peace. ' [...] "
Marah Durimeh gives Kara Ben Nemsi an amulet containing several hundred pound notes, and later helps him in From Baghdad to Stambul (1892) when he and Halef are attacked by the plague.
In the travel story In the Kingdom of the Silver Lion II (1898), she is freed by Kara Ben Nemsi from the power of the Dawuhdijeh Kurds, whom she captured as a supposed sorceress on behalf of the Pasha of Suleimania.
In May's only drama Babel and Bible - Arabian Fantasia in Two Acts (1906), Marah Durimeh is invited to play chess with human figures by Abu Kital, the Sheik of An'allah. It works towards his change from violent to noble man.
In the late work Ardistan und Dschinnistan (1909) she is finally the sultana of Sitara .
It is also mentioned in the travel stories Im Reiche des silbernen Löwen Vols. 3 and 4 (1902 and 1903), Und Friede auf Erden (1904) and in Winnetou IV (1910; in the Karl-May-Verlag: Winnetous Erben ), where she is described as Marimeh , the queen of the almost forgotten country of Jinnistan (cf. Ardistan and Jinnistan ).
“'Far away from here there is a country called Jinnistan. It is only known to us, the red men, but not to the whites. ' [...] 'It was many thousands of years ago that America was still connected to Asia. There was a bridge from there to here in the far north. This bridge is now torn and disintegrated into individual islands. At that time, thousands of years ago, tall, wonderful people, physically and mentally shaped like giants, came over this bridge to our ancestors and brought greetings from their ruler, Queen Marimeh. '"
Later in the conversation, explaining young eagle Old Shatterhand as the Winnetou communities (an association whose members wear a zwölfstrahligen star on the chest and promise to watch each other) has been created and that he is a law of the Guardian Angels of the land Dschinnistan justified . The law of the guardian angels is also mentioned in the autobiography My Life and Striving (1910; in the Collected Works : in Volume 34 Me ) in the fairy tale of Sitara .
Mohammed Emin
Mohammed Emin is the sheikh of the Haddedihn tribe. In gratitude for the scouting mission that Kara Ben Nemsi carried out for him, he gave him the Rappen Rih . His son is called Ahmad el Ghandur . Hajji Halef Omar and his wife Hanneh also belong to the Haddedihn tribe (later). Mohammed Emin appears in the first three volumes of the Orient cycle (1892) and dies there in the volume From Baghdad to Stambul in the fight against the Bebbeh Kurds when he and his son assist the Persian refugee Hassan Arjir Mirza . In the appendix of the last volume his grave is visited.
In the film Through Wildest Kurdistan is Mohammed Emin of the American actor Charles Fawcett and in the television series Kara Ben Nemsi (1973) by Richard Lauffen played. In the 7-part radio play Through the Desert (WDR 1964) the role of Kurt Lieck is spoken.
Animals
Dojan
Dojan is a Tazi or Slogi ( Sloughi ), a greyhound (in the film a German Shepherd Dog ) that Kara Ben Nemsi was given as a present in the book Durchs Wilde Kurdistan (1892).
- It was one of those precious yellow-gray and extraordinarily large and strong greyhounds that are called Slogi in India, Persia and Turkestan as far as Siberia. This rare breed is called Tazi among the Kurds. They overtake the most fleeting gazelle; they often catch up with the wild donkey and the windy Tschiggetai and are not afraid of any panthers or bears. (Karl May: Through wild Kurdistan. P. 127.)
Dojan is shot dead and torn by wild dogs in the tape From Baghdad to Stambul (1892) while defending his master against predatory Bedouins.
The name means the falcon in Kurdish after Karl May .
Rih
Kara Ben Nemsi receives the legendary black rih (= wind) as a gift from the Sheikh of the Haddedihn, Mohammed Emin . Rih is an Asiles Arab thoroughbred who is very unusual because of its black color. The vast majority of Arabs are gray, less often foxes or browns. Kara Ben Nemsi wins the affection and trust of Rih by spending a night with him and speaking "... the hundredth sura, which is about the fast-moving horses, into his nostrils ...". When Kara Ben Nemsi puts her hand between the horse Rih's ears and shouts “Rih!”, Rih mobilizes his last reserves of strength and becomes extremely fast. Rih has a son, Assil Ben Rih , who is ridden by Haji Halef Omar's son, Kara Ben Halef . Rih is killed in the last volume of the so-called Orient cycle , Der Schut (1892).
Other continents and national figures
main characters
Charley
The first-person narrator of many travel stories, who is often called Charley (the name only exists as a salutation), is identified by the common first name i. d. Usually equated with Old Shatterhand or Kara Ben Nemsi. Winnetou's nickname for Old Shatterhand, Schar-lih (and similar spellings) is derived from Charley .
Karl May (Sappho)
May had repeatedly claimed that everything that could be read in his travel stories he had experienced himself and that he was Old Shatterhand or Kara Ben Nemsi. In Joys and Sorrows of a Well-Read One (1897) May describes a “representative”, albeit fictional, day in his life as a writer. This consolidates his identity with his first-person narrators. The text has been illustrated with photos showing May in civilian clothes, as Old Shatterhand and as Kara Ben Nemsi.
Already with the publication of Krüger Bei (1894), Old Shatterhand, Kara Ben Nemsi and the writer Karl May were to be equated within a travel story. However, the editor Heinrich Keiter had the chapter In der Heimath , which describes the adventures of the fictional character Dr. Karl May contained in Germany, deleted and May had not used the text again for in the book edition ( Satan and Ischariot II , 1897). The fictional May holds a doctorate (the writer was not entitled to do so), is valued by a linguistics professor for his language skills, composed pieces of music that are mistaken for Mozart's works and supports the Vogel family. However, the otherwise omnipotent figure also has human weaknesses: While the mess that Dr. May causes amusement in the professor's house, his relationship with Martha Vogel is dramatic in nature. Dr. May is jealous, overwhelmed with his feelings for her and he hurts Martha, who loves him (the fictional May is not yet with Emma ).
The identification of a novel finally took place in 1897 in "Christmas!" . It describes an episode from Old Shatterhand's high school days (the author himself was not allowed to go to high school). The young May is nicknamed Sappho , which was given to him because of his poems based on the ancient Greek poetess . His works include an award-winning 32-stanza Christmas poem and a Christmas motet . It describes a journey by Sapphos and his school friend Carpio through the Ore Mountains to Bohemia , where they support a Hiller family financially and mentally. Years later, when May became famous as Old Shatterhand in North America, Carpio continued to address him as Sappho.
In and peace on earth ! (1904) the travel route of the fictional May largely follows that of the real May on his trip to the Orient in 1899/1900 and the former talks to the other characters about the latter's books. By meeting Sir John Raffley, May is also equated with the first-person narrator of the Southeast Asia stories ( Am Stillen Ocean , 1894). The story Shamah (1907/08), in which May is accompanied by his future wife Klara and which was illustrated with images of May, can also be traced back to this trip to the Orient . The last appearance of the fictional May takes place in Winnetou IV (1910). Letters addressed to May urge Old Shatterhand to come to America to seek the correct memory of Winnetou and to deal with his old enemies. May sets off together with Klara, first follows the route of the real May on his trip to America in 1908 and then travels via Winnetou's grave to Mount Winnetou, where there are encounters with characters from various North American narratives. In these texts, however, the fictional May is no longer the action hero of earlier stories, but accompanies the events increasingly on a spiritual and spiritual level.
After press attacks, May distanced himself from equating his characters and wanted them to be understood as purely symbolic. The first-person narrators of his works are therefore the manifested human question .
Important companions
Emery Bothwell
He is an Englishman and a member of the Travelers Club in London, who first proves to be a loyal companion and good marksman in Die Gum (in Orangen und Datteln , 1893) and later in Satan and Ischariot II and III (both 1897). An even earlier adventure is mentioned in Winnetou II (1893).
Frick Turnerstick
A somewhat quirky captain of his merchant ship The Wind , who is characterized above all by enormous physical strength and huge hands. He has an artificial right eye and a "pince-nez that keeps falling from the tiny snub nose". Captain Frick Turnerstrick comes in the travel stories Der Ehri , Der Kiang-lu , Der Brodnik (all three short stories in Am Stillen Ocean (1894), within this volume they are summarized in the KMV since 1953 under the title In the Sign of the Dragon ), Christ or Muhammed (in Orangen und Datteln , 1893), Am Rio de la Plata and In den Cordilleren (both 1894). He has a Frisian helmsman named Hans Larsen who is in no way inferior to him in terms of size and strength.
Another captain named Heimdall Turnerstick plays in the novel Kong-Kheou, the word of honor (1888/89, book version and d. T. The blue-red Methuselah ). In the KMV processing it was reworked to Frick Turnerstick . Despite many parallels, the two namesakes are not identical.
Klara May (Herzle)
May's second wife Klara May visits Jerusalem and the surrounding area as well as Hebron with her husband in Shamah (1907/08) . There she observes the activities of the children Shamah and Thar. Some photographs of the real Klara illustrate this travel story. (At the time of the plot, May 1900 , May was actually still married to Emma Pollmer and Klara was not yet widowed.) Later, in Winnetou IV (1910) , she accompanies her husband - i.e. Old Shatterhand - on a journey to the west to the they were invited to see the Winnetou monument. She visits u. a. Nscho-chi's grave and befriends Kolma Puschi and Kakho-Oto. She exercises a calming influence on Santer's son Zebulon L. Enters, who then becomes her secret protector and saves her from death. After the original memorial, which misrepresented Winnetou and distorted, is destroyed, photographs of Klara are projected onto a waterfall to show the real Winnetou. In this late work she is almost consistently referred to by the nickname Herzle .
Adversary
Geronimo Sabuco (El Sendador)
Geronimo Sabuco , called "El Sendador" , is the negative main character in Karl May's two great travel stories , Am Rio de la Plata and In den Cordilleren , set in South America . He is praised by Mauricio Monteso, the first-person narrator, as a famous and reliable guide to the Andes .
Sabuco turns out to be an unscrupulous villain who uses and incites Indian tribes for his evil deeds. He also turns out to be a robber and a murderer. Nevertheless, the narrator dares his own life to rescue him from a threatening situation on a rock face.
Despite the imminent death, Sabuco is unrepentant. Only when his son is also saved from distress does he regret his deeds and oblige him to return the stolen treasures to the owners or their heirs.
Other key figures
Emma May (Emmeh)
May's first wife Emma May is presented as Mrs. Old Shatterhands or Kara Ben Nemsis in Joys and Sorrows of a Well-Read (1897), in which an "exemplary", albeit fictional, day in the writer's life is depicted.
In the travel stories, Emma, in contrast to her second wife, Klara May , does not appear as an acting figure, but is only represented in Die "Umm ed Jamahl" (1898), Im Reiche des silbernen Löwen I-II (1898) and Am Jenseits ( 1899) mentioned in conversations with Halef, who calls her Emmeh and compares her to his Hanneh. It is also mentioned in Et in terra pax (1901). After the divorce (1903) Emma was replaced by Dschanneh (= soul) in later editions of the silver lion novel .
While May used her maiden name Emma Pollmer during his early work as a pseudonym and hardly veiled for characters ( Emma Vollmer in scepter and hammer ), he sat down after the divorce and the like. a. in Frau Pollmer, a psychological study (1907) critically examines it.
Martha Vogel
Martha Vogel is the daughter of the cellist Vogel and the sister of Franz Vogel. Through old grandmother Jäger she is old Hunter's niece.
The first-person narrator Doctor Karl May met her as a young girl when he was visiting her parents for a violin prelude by her brother Franz, and raved about her very peculiar beauty, her long and thick, dark Germanic hair, the raven black, Almond-shaped Damascus eyes with long, heavy and equally dark eyelashes, their small hands and feet and their pearl teeth. She recognizes the opportunity her brother is offered with the musical education and accompanies him to town, where she works in the household of his music teacher. Later she takes a job as a puncturer in the publishing house where May works as an editor , and falls in love with May, who notices the plastic emergence of her "youthful forms" during this activity. On his return from a trip abroad, he realizes that she has developed physically and that she has since been trained by the Kapellmeister to become a singer . Under the pseudonym Janka Szilagyi , she celebrated a great triumph at a concert May attended with Konrad Werner. When May still can't decide, she accepts Konrad Werner's proposal of marriage. She and her brother move with him to America after their wedding .
The marriage was unhappy and after her husband went bankrupt, she separated from him and performed as a singer with her brother Franz under the name Pajaro . After the death of old Hunter and his son Small, the siblings inherit a fortune in the millions, with which they finance an institute for the support of poor, talented children.
The suggested love story between the first-person narrator Karl May and the puncturer Martha Vogel (which Heinrich Keiter deleted without replacement) is interpreted by Hans-Dieter Steinmetz as an autobiographical reflection. The role model for the fictional character is Marie Thekla Vogel, whose relationship to the writer Karl May could not be clearly clarified.
In the original of the cover image "Satan and Isharioth" by Sascha Schneider , Adelheid Caspari-Wychlacz and Hansotto Hatzig discovered a woman's head on the angel's chest, which Hatzig thought was a picture of Marta Vogel .
- "The big shielding hat is most likely to be seen, but the small woman's face is hardly recognizable underneath, framed by an abundance of blond curls."
Youth stories about other continents
The blue-red Methuselah / Kong-Kheou, the word of honor
Fritz Degenfeld (Blue-Red Methuselah)
The blue-red Methuselah is the nickname of Fritz Degenfeld , an eternal student who, in the novel of the same name (1892), travels to China with his companions in search of the missing uncle of the young Richard Stein . On the trip he is accompanied by Captain Heimdall Turnerstick and Mijnherr Willem van Aardappelenbosch . The novel should already be filmed several times, but all attempts have failed.
Heimdall Turnerstick
Early works and colportage novels
Humoresque and historical stories
Leopold I of Anhalt-Dessau (The Old Dessauer)
- Further historical figures are listed in the article Karl May's historical stories .
Forest rose
Karl Sternau
The German doctor Sternau is the hero in some of the volumes of the colportage novel Waldröschen or Die Rächerjagd around the earth. Great revelatory novel about the secrets of human society by Captain Ramon Diaz de la Escosura , published in 109 installments from December 1882 to August 1884. Capitain Ramon Diaz de la Escosura was one of the many pseudonyms under which Karl May wrote.
Sternau, illegitimate son of the Duke of Olsunna, served as envoy of the American President Abraham Lincoln and secret courier of Chancellor Bismarck with the Mexican rebels under Benito Juárez . He is nicknamed "Prince of the Rock".
Various motifs from the novels were used in the West German Karl May films of the 1960s in the films The Treasure of the Aztecs (1965), directed by Robert Siodmak and The Pyramid of the Sun God (1965), directed by Robert Siodmak. In each of these films Lex Barker played the lead role of Dr. Sternau.
Further parts of the mammoth novel were implemented in the DEFA two-part series Präriejäger in Mexico in 1988 .
The Uhlan's love
The Königsau family
In the novel Die Liebe des Ulanen (1883–1885), the adventures of the noble Königsau family (edited by KMV Greifenklau ) are told over three generations: Grandfather Hugo, son Gebhardt and grandson Richard are involved in all sorts of Franco-German adventures Marriages involved. Your opponent is Albin Richemonte.
Other important figures in the reception
Removed original figures
Lord Castlepool
He is a competitive Scottish lord, has traveled all continents and is now crossing the Wild West. He has a lot of money and in the youth story Der Schatz im Silbersee (1890/91) offers Humply-Bill and Gunstick-Uncle 50 dollars for each adventure. He is a very capable man and, despite certain peculiarities, not the joke he is portrayed as in the films.
In Karl May film adaptations of the 1960s, Lord Castlepool is played by the German actor Eddi Arent in the films The Treasure in the Silbersee (1962), Winnetou Part 2 (1964) and Winnetou and Shatterhand in the Valley of the Dead (1968).
Added figures
Apanatschi
Apanatschi is based on the name “ Apanatschka ”, a completely fictitious film character from the Karl May film “ Winnetou and the half-blood Apanatschi ”, in which she was played by Uschi Glas .
Archie
Archie is Sir David Lindsay's servant in the 1960s Karl May films , played by Chris Howland . He has a huge travel bag from which he (like the magical nanny Mary Poppins ) can pull out a wide variety of devices, including a whole tethered balloon. The character does not appear in the novels, it was only invented for the films.
Rollins
Rollins is Winnetou's killer in the Karl May films and is played by the Italian actor Rik Battaglia . He appears in Winnetou Part 3 and is killed by the Apaches after Winnetou is murdered .
literature
- Bernhard Kosciuszko: The great Karl May figure lexicon . 3rd improved and supplemented edition, Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-244-X (up to 2nd edition under the title Grosses Karl-May-Figurlexikon ).
- Katharina Maier: Nscho-Tschi and her sisters . Karl-May-Verlag, Bamberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7802-0193-5 .
- Anja Tschakert: The Karl May Animal Lexicon . Special issue of the Karl May Society No. 145. Hansa Verlag, Husum 2012, ISBN 978-3-941629-04-2 .
- Malte Ristau : Explore the world, experience adventure, prove yourself. Karl Mays Lords, contemporary role models and their context , in: M-KMG No. 199/2019, pp. 16–30.
Remarks
- ↑ Karl May: Satan and I Iscariot . Verlag Friedrich Ernst Fehsenfeld, Freiburg i. Br. 1897. p. 24. ( online version )
- ↑ Hartmut Kühne: [Article on] Satan and Ischariot I – III . In: Gert Ueding (Ed.): Karl-May-Handbuch. 2nd Edition. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2001, ISBN 3-8260-1813-3 , pp. 216–222.
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Timoteo_Pruchillo
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Almaden_alto
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Listige_Schlange
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Fred_Murphy
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Hunter
- ↑ H. Kühne: Satan and Ischariot I – III . 2001, pp. 216-222.
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Krüger-Bei
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Uled_Ayar
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Small_Hunter
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Judith_Silberstein
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Metan-akva
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Timpes_Erben
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Kaufmann_Bender
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Tokbela
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Ikwehtsi%27pa
- ↑ Karl May : Old Surehand III. In: Karl Mays Werke , p. 57245 (see KMW-IV.20, p. 527).
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Daniel_Etters
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Lothaire_Thibaut
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Tusahga_Saritsch
- ↑ Karl May: Old Surehand III. In: Karl Mays Werke , p. 56806 (see KMW-IV.20, p. 182).
- ↑ Karl May: Old Surehand III. In: Karl Mays Werke , p. 56806 (see KMW-IV.20, p. 182).
- ↑ Karl May: Old Surehand III. In: Karl Mays Werke , p. 56804 f. (see KMW-IV.20, p. 180).
- ↑ Karl May: Old Surehand III. In: Karl Mays Werke , p. 56805 (see KMW-IV.20, p. 181).
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Schahko_Matto
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Kakho-oto
- ^ Karl May: Winnetou IV. In: Karl Mays Werke , p. 68715 (cf. KMW-V.7, p. 494).
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Young_Apanatschka
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Young_Surehand
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Mount_Winnetou
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Winnetou_III_(Schneider)
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Winnetous_Testament_(Karl_May)
- ↑ Katharina Maier: Nscho-chi and her sisters. Female figures in the work of Karl May , Bamberg / Radebeul: Karl-May-Verlag 2012, pp. 129–147.
- ↑ Today the Apache word for lightning would be rendered as hada-tithla . The US Congress candidate , Mary Kim Titla , has an abbreviated version of this name as a family name.
- ↑ May, Karl: Oranges and Dates . Published by Friedrich Ernst Fehsenfeld, Freiburg i. Br., 1893. p. 222.
- ↑ Kosciuszko, Figurlexikon , p. 253.
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Mauricio_Monteso
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Sohn_des_Sendador
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Strumpfwohler_Vogel
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Franz_Vogel
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Großmutter_Jäger
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Hunter
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Konrad_Werner
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Small_Hunter
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Marie_Thekla_Vogel
- ↑ http://www.karl-may-wiki.de/index.php/Satan_und_Isharioth_(Schneider)
- ↑ Hansotto Hatzig: The woman's head in the angel's chest. In: Mitteilungen der Karl-May-Gesellschaft No. 91/1992, p. 36. ( online version )
Web links
- Large Karl May dictionary of figures (complete directory; Internet edition of the 2nd edition of the book of the same name)
- Karl May Wiki with more detailed entries on the individual characters in the novel