European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 13, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse Achung head in off at the pass by Bill Collins staff will or was a month after be Day. Lemon Hen Moil German villagers and Armp Opie were gelling their tint Good look at american told ten in a nonviolent let Ting. In a Little town near the City of Mayen to boys in leather shorts approached a Helm Ted go jeep Driver. The bolder on piped up in Hli Best English you Are Cowboy or Indian it was t Sass. The boys really wanted to know. To them and tent of thousands of other German Small Fry. He United state was the wild West where the busiest thoroughfare were Warpath and the gun fight waa common a lunch flan event Ashe business talk. The Man mostly responsible for this romantic notion of the new world was Kurt May a German author who died is years ago. To this Day he remains one of the Betread figures in German literature. May rhymes with shy wrote 70 novels All of them adventure storm Lor the younger set. His favorite subject and theone in which he gained hts Success Vas America s Western Frontier. Hli books have old More than in million copies in Ger Newny alone and have been translated into30 other languages. His most popular novel has sold u million in Ger Man and polish Adit Lons. And yet May never saw America until after a had written most of his westerns. 21 was t until Bis yarns about old Shat Terhand. His Sharp shooing Range rider and a Annelou the bravest of the braves had earned him Fame that he had enough Money to make the trip. This was perhaps the most notable but not the Only Paradox of i career. May s books Ore prime examples of idealistic writing calculated to inspire youth to courage loyalty and nil the other trolls of a real Western hero. Yah May himself started writing in Jill. Arrested for the first time at the age of 20, he spent eight of his net 13 years serving time mostly for pitty larceny. Literary cult Sci have repeatedly branded his prose style As but they can t argue with his Success. His fans have in eluded the liken of Thomas Mann Albert Einstein and Albert Schweitzer. And de spite my s preoccupation with Amerl Cim Kiwi Guys. Adolf Hitler is sold to kit p Finiw american Indian dialects As Well As three or four other i popularity grew 90 did his cant of heroes. On the heels of Shatle Rhand Andwan Newtou came old Burchand old fire Hund and Sam Hawkins Riding the Trull Sto Santa be Silver Creek Denver and a lot of place nobody but May had Ever heard of. But even the enduring reception Given him he the rending Public failed to end the personal confusion that marked his Early adulthood. May spent Money As fast a of made it. Neither of his two marriage seem to have been particularly Happy and Foi a time he tried his hand at spiritualism perhaps out of the frustration of finding himself so unlike the to tons of the West i had create it has or the turn of the Century when May finally did get to America and visited some of the places he had de 13 in a led no Rirl Longly year before without leaving i prison w la. Thl pilgrimage done. My returned loge Many to write a few More books and eventually Lou Tlle Cor hit declining Reinin u Villa at a Adducul. Near Dreiden in what i now Rebii Germany. He called the place old shatter Hond. He died in old Sha Terhand Villa in 1911old shot Erhand the Westerner and the reit of the mighty men of Maymind have gone Riding on. And while they ride May will not be forgotten. Dpi plate the horde of imported . Cow Boya i hooting ii up then Dayi on Wen German television Daybook Are it Llone of the big pit rerun Cowboy outfits Are one of the Moil Welcome a lilt Saint Nick can leave a German Ltd at Chr lit Maitle. And he a Moil aurely had lome thing to do with i he Knipl ration of die Mali group who showed up in India garb to Greet president Kennedy but month in Frankfurt. In Munich Therea cow boy club that marked in 30th annl Vdrury july 13 with a opening of a co"T"1" we in Mut cum id � 10-Heno there hardly a in German Loday thai Don l Hove n Hock of flu. Newtou and old hand paperback at report from behind die Iron , there a still a Karl May mum a Vuta by � c " a hand Villa and a bigger Onu. Including the Many item Transfer red Ibad Segeberg in Norl lie of the annual Karl i be indeed each year at Bra Lei of the German Cowboy Breed with All due pm theater in bad Sege Barf 1hamburg. The May and will run through i since the bid Sefi Hin 1952, about 800.0001 Stag. May Leet no u ba4 f Tell get at i pm Eldun. I and i a. My i Friday to i pm Ida a at t and i dub. J Domalag pc Hormuz 11 the play All Bawd of the Miu Eum of May and eaten food prepared ican Indian recipe and Indian War chant Coll Ltd of Hamburg mule Feit Val broke the attel110,000 paid adm Mont Thea Yea Lake
