On April 12, 1910, before the magistrate's court in Berlin-Charlottenburg: The defamation suit brought by Karl May, creator of Winnetou and Old Shatterhand, against editor Rudolf Lebius is being heard ...

Lex Barker's cause of deathLex Barker became world famous as "Old Shatterhand" The Karl May films were the highlight of Lex Barker's acting career. The "Winnetou" movies are an absolute cult, about ...

March 30 marks 100 years since the death of German writer Karl May, whose popular novels about an American West (and other exotic locales) he only visited much later in life entertained many in ...

Ten thousand Germans were in their places in Bad Segeberg’s outdoor amphitheater last week to see Old Shatterhand make his grand appearance.Shatterhand slithered down a sheer rock wall and, armed only ...

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.

The sauerkraut oater goes Mel Brooks in "Manitou's Shoe," a determinedly silly but frequently very funny spoof of the Winnetou & Old Shatterhand German Westerns of the '60s. Directed, co-written and ...