🪶 Winnetou – What Karl May Got Right and What He Got Completely Wrong
Winnetou is the most famous “Indian” in German-speaking countries – and he never existed. Karl May invented him between 1875 and 1909 in his study in Radebeul, Saxony, without ever having met an Apache or visited North America. Yet this fictional character shaped the image that generations of Germans, Austrians, and Swiss hold of indigenous…