A German publisher has pulled two books about a beloved fictional character after receiving accusations of racism and cultural appropriation. Before the decision, the books were supposed to be ...

The film “Forget Winnetou!” uses the novels of Karl May, who published his first book about a character named Winnetou in 1870, to explore the German idealization of Indigenous peoples. “I make pretty ...

Generations of young Germans have been fans of Indian Winnetou and his German friend Old Shatterhand - even Adolf Hitler. Now that the Karl May story has been refilmed, DW's Susanne Spröer gets to the ...

The two Winnetou novels reissued by the Ravensburger publishing house created a controversy before being withdrawn from sale, which created a new controversy. CAPTURE D’ECRAN NDR Trying to extinguish ...

Winnetou, Old Shatterhand, Nscho-Tschi: Here is an introduction to the main characters in Karl May's "Winnetou" novels. German television is releasing an updated version of the classic Wild West film.

When Winnetou was reborn for the cinema, a miracle had to happen. So the Great Spirit formed the Apache chief from a Frenchman of the Breton tribe. Even if it wasn't entirely politically correct. This ...

The other day I found Jürgen Michaelis, a short, 50-year-old, beefy-handed man with a broad smile, standing by himself inside a teepee not much bigger than a phone booth behind a house in this suburb ...

You've probably never heard of Pierre Brice. But, in Germany, he was a household name. Brice was a French actor who played an Apache chief in German Westerns. He died this weekend at 86. The headline ...

Ravensburger has pulled books depicting Winnetou, a fictional Apache character, over accusations that the story reinforces racist and colonial stereotypes of Native Americans. A German publisher has ...