“Der Schatz im Silbersee” is a well-known German novel (mainly read by children and young adults) about American Indians, or rather what a German, namely Karl May, thought frontier life in the US was like at the time. He lived in the second part of the 19th century, so for him the stories were contemporary and he wrote as if he had been there, often making himself the protagonist of the stories. He was a proliferate writer, even today he is one of the most read German authors, and very popular movies have been made of his stories with regular reruns on German TV, particularly during Christmas and Easter holidays. The stories also spawned theatre festivals and a whole outdoor theatre where nothing but Karl May stories are staged in summer. The movies were mainly filmed in the Plitvice area of Croatia but the Mummelsee in the Northern Black Forest – wouldn’t that be a poster lake for anything called the Silver Lake?
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Interesting. I don’t think he’s known here.
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Although many of his works have been translated into English, I’ve never met an English speaking person who was familiar with any of his works but he has been an influence on many German speaking ones. Einstein, according to wikipedia was one, as was apparently Hitler. I spent years as a little girl imagining myself as Winnetou, the ficitious “noble savage” red Indian chief. Or, when the bigger neighbourhood boys played as well, I was very proud to be Winnetou’s little brother (a great honour that they let me play at all).
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That is silver lake
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