I wanted to ask this since I was a boy. I'm especially interested in responses from all of you living in the USA.
I do suspect something, therefore I don't want to say anything about Karl May right now...

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/karlmay.htm

An a german author it seems... one of his characters is called Hadschi Alef Omar ibn Hadschi Abu Abbas ibn Hadschi Dawud al Gosarah... now there is a mouthful... [img]smile.gif[/img]

Yes, right JC.
The reason for my question is, that he wrote a lot of adventure novels, dealing with cowboys an indians. Did you ever hear the name Winnetou? Or Old Shatterhand?

I think I saw the movie Winnetau as a kid... long time ago... don't remember much of it.

Ah, memories [img]smile.gif[/img] I've read some of them ... let's see ... 25-26 years back. They made a couple of movies in 60's after his books too (starring Lex Barker as Old Shatterhand, i think).
I've read someplace that he wrote all of his books in prison and never saw the lands he was writting about.

Neuro

Well as far as I know he travelled a lot (except the times he's been in prison).

So far there's been some european answers. I'm really anxious to the answers coming from overseas...

[ 12-17-2002, 05:25 AM: Message edited by: Borvik ]

Yes (ignore my from germany location) I grew up in the US and I knew who he was and have read his books.

You did? I had no idea, that anybody else than germans do know him. Somehow I always had the feeling, if an american would begin reading these books, the next thing would be him/her ROFL. I can't explain why though.

[ 12-17-2002, 09:09 AM: Message edited by: Borvik ]

A German author of a lot of western books. The stories about Winnetou and old shatterhand were sold to Hollywood. I saw all those movies when i was younger.

Hollywood [img]graemlins/wow.gif[/img] Are you sure about that??? I saw the movies too - of course. But as far as I know they are all european productions. Coproduced by Germany, Italy and other european countries.