Winnetou

In works such as Winnetou (pencil, 920×745 mm, 1950; see 1988 exh. cat., p. 10) he explored microstructures and sought to expose repressed impulses in defiance of bourgeois hypocrisy.

O SÉCULO PRODIGIOSO 2009

Interestingly, I suspect that an early contact with Winnetou and Old Shatterhand is also the reason why I could never enjoy Hollywood westerns.

Who Goes There?, The Thing, and Beyond 2010

Besides, the filmic versions of Winnetou, the noble Apache chief, and Old Shatterhand, his brave frontiersman best friend, have overlaid the original novels too much for me.

Who Goes There?, The Thing, and Beyond 2010

Hell, I was going to marry Old Shatterhand, while my best friend was going to marry Winnetou.

Who Goes There?, The Thing, and Beyond 2010

Winnetou and his German blood brother, Old Shatterhand

Winnetou and his German blood brother, Old Shatterhand | clusterflock 2009

Winnetou and his German blood brother, Old Shatterhand | clusterflock etc.

Winnetou and his German blood brother, Old Shatterhand | clusterflock 2009

And as a kid he never read Winnetou 3 because Winnetou dies, and book 6 of the Kara ben Nemsi cycle because the MC's favourite horse dies.

Hey, don't be a girlie-man! Douglas Hoffman 2005

There is no moral ambiguity in the Winnetou novels; their characters have no complexity or mature emotion.

Self-Portrait of a Revolutionary Kinzer, Stephen 1992

When the Sandinista leader Tomás Borge was a boy in provincial Nicaragua, he formed, he tells us, an intimate bond with a brave and saintly Apache Indian named Winnetou.

Self-Portrait of a Revolutionary Kinzer, Stephen 1992

The Winnetou books, written by the German novelist Karl May, had millions of young readers around the world during the first half of this century.

Self-Portrait of a Revolutionary Kinzer, Stephen 1992