A uf this message have Karl May fans waited decades: “Winnetou” to be remade! Three films are planned to begin shooting in the summer. The first cast of characters has already been set: “Tatort” -Kommissar Wotan Wilke Möhring to play Old Shatterhand. Probably more important is for fans but by whom Winnetou himself to be embodied. Here Pierre Brice has left very big moccasins.
Michael Petzel, director of the Karl-May-archive in Göttingen, recommends a “young, unknown face”. Under no circumstances should the filmmakers the temptation to succumb to build on the legendary films of the 60s. Petzel therefore it would also find that no good if the 86 year old Brice would return again in the role of Winnetou’s father Intshu tshuna: “This is totally unthinkable No, we have to create something totally new that leave the old forgotten!”
“Then Winnetou has completed its task”
It is in this year exactly half a century ago that “Winnetou 3″ was released in theaters, the film in which the Apaches enter into the eternal hunting grounds at the end. You prefer Manitou what was there crying, as the US military doctor the cruel sentence said. “I can not remove the bullet it is too close to the heart.” And now? “It’s in God’s hands!” In a flashback Old Shatterhand aka Lex Barker looked again pass by all the highlights of the long friendship between men in. Iltschi, the faithful black horse whinnied, sad goodbye from a distance came the ringing bells of Santa Fe, and Winnetou said another of his famous phrases in the 3rd person: “Then Winnetou has completed its task”
This event is fictional, the then Youth of the Federal Republic have shocked as two years before the death of John F. Kennedy. The producer Horst Wendlandt (1922-2002) received death threats, and Rik Battaglia, the Italian actor of the villain Rollins, who had fired the fatal bullet, since then never received an autograph request from Germany.
self-presentation in the style of Madonna
Today, everything is hard to imagine. Little boys do not play “Winnetou and Old Shatterhand”, but have very different heroes: The “Star Wars” characters, Spiderman, Captain America … Read is “Winnetou” certainly not: Too langspurig! Karl May (1842-1912) was able to describe long as he could reconstruct an entire criminal action based vice knickter grass easily four or five pages. Crime is also rather little sex and do not’s by today’s standards. Unless one assumes the two blood brothers a homoerotic relationship.
However, the material and its author have in the 21st century still has potential. So Karl May from today’s point of view as a thoroughly modern figure: the small axis pretended to have really experienced his adventures in the Wild West and the Orient as Old Shatterhand and Kara ben Nemsi. For a long time, therefore, set it down as a liar. Today we would say rather that he invented one of the first a media I: self-presentation in the style of Madonna
“reconciliation of the East with the West”
. Many other aspects also provide starting points: It was the stated goal of the biggest best-selling author in Wilhelmine Germany, to build a bridge between cultures and religions. “I wish that humanity learn to love,” he said in one of his last interviews. “Above all, I was striving for reconciliation of the East with the West.”
Hardcore Karl May fans may have concerns because of all the commercial broadcaster RTL of the great folk writer takes. You are reminded: As in 1962 with “The Treasure of Silver Lake”, the first Karl May adventure was filmed, had neither producer Wendlandt still lead actor Pierre Brice even the faintest idea of Karl May Nonetheless, the film was a huge success. Three million Viewers exchanged in the next few months for two hours, the narrowness of their everyday life in the Adenauer era against the vastness of the West.
The students, who at that time the “Bravo” -Starschnitt of Winnetou hung, the later generation of ’68 were by the way. In this respect, one can only wonder what will happen this time.
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