page_title: Karl May
section_title: Radebeul
hierarchical_section_title: Karl May / Karl May institutions / Museums / Radebeul
caption_attribution_description: English: Karl May Museum in Radebeul (Dresden, Germany)
context_page_description: Karl Friedrich May was a German author. He is best known for his travel novels set on one hand in the American Old West with Winnetou and Old Shatterhand as main protagonists and on the other hand in the Orient and Middle East with Kara Ben Nemsi and Hadschi Halef Omar. May also wrote novels set in Latin America and Germany, poetry, a play, and composed music; he was a proficient player of several musical instruments. Many of his works were adapted for film, stage, audio dramas and comics. Later in his career, May turned to philosophical and spiritual genres. He is one of the best-selling German writers of all time, with about 200,000,000 copies worldwide.
context_section_description: The Karl May Museum is in the Villa Shatterhand in Radebeul and contains artifacts from May's life as well as from life on the American frontier and Native American life of that era.  It was founded in 1928 by May's widow and an eccentric Austrian named Ernst Tobis.  When the Nazis took over Germany, they appropriated the museum and the image of May, and were especially focused on swastikas that appeared in some of the Native American artwork.  Hitler Youth were encouraged to visit the museum and hear stories from Tobis. After World War II, the original museum was in East Germany and a replica was built in Bamberg in West Germany.  From 1956 to 1984, the museum in Radebul was called the "Indianer Museum", because May's books were suppressed by the East German government; its original name was restored in 1986.  Around 2010, controversy arose over scalps, some of them from Native Americans, that were in the museum's collection.
caption: Villa Bärenfett
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