Editing Karl May (section)

== Karl May institutions ==
=== Karl May Foundation ===
In his will, May made his second wife, Klara, his sole heiress. He instructed that after her death all of his property and any future earnings from his work should go to a [[Foundation (non-profit)|foundation]]. This foundation should support the education of the gifted poor including writers, journalists, and editors. One year after May's death, on 5 March 1913, Klara May established the "Karl May Foundation" ("Karl-May-Stiftung"). Contributions have been made since 1917. Klara and Karl May's estate went to the foundation. The foundation established the [[#Radebeul|Karl May Museum]] to maintain the Villa Shatterhand, the estates, the collections and May's tomb.<ref>Schmid E. ''Karl Mays Tod und Nachlaß.'' in ''Karl May'' ICH 39th edition. Karl-May-Verlag, Bamberg, 1995, pp. 327–365.</ref><ref name=WagnerStiftung>Wagner R. ''Karl-May-Stiftung (Radebeul)'' in Ueding: ''Karl-May-Handbuch'', pp. 549–551.</ref> In 1960, the Karl May Foundation received the Karl May Press.<ref name=WagnerStiftung/>

=== Karl May Press ===
On 1 July 1913, Klara May, Friedrich Ernst Fehsenfeld (May's main publisher) and the [[jurist]] Euchar Albrecht Schmid established the "Foundation Press Fehsenfeld & Co." ("Stiftungs-Verlag Fehsenfeld & Co.") in Radebeul. In 1915, the name changed to "Karl May Press" ("Karl-May-Verlag" (KMV)). The KMV consolidated the rights to May's works from internal discord and from other publishers.<ref name=WehnertKMV>Wehnert, Jürgen. ''Der Karl-May-Verlag'' in Ueding: ''Karl-May-Handbuch'' pp. 554–558.</ref> Third-hand revisions of these texts were added to the series ''Karl May's Gesammelte Reiseerzählungen'', which was renamed to ''Karl May's Gesammelte Werke (und Briefe)''. The existing 33 volumes of the original series were also revised, some extensively. By 1945 there were 65 volumes. The press is exclusive to May's work and subsidiary literature. Besides the ''Gesammelte Werke'' (the classical "green volumes"), which have 91 volumes today<!-- 88 + 91–93 -->, the press has a huge reprint programme.

The Karl May Press aims to rehabilitate May from literary criticism and to support the Karl May Foundation. In 1921, Fehsenfeld left and in 1960, the foundation fell to Klara May's estate, and thus the Press is owned by the Schmid family. In 1959, due to censorship in the [[Soviet occupation zone]] and [[East Germany]], the Press moved to [[Bamberg]] (Germany). In 1963, when copyright ended, the Press began commercialising May's works. After [[German reunification]], in 1996, the Press took a second office in Radebeul. The name "Karl May" is a [[registered trade mark]] of the "Karl May Verwaltungs- und Vertriebs-GmbH", which belongs to the Karl May Press.<ref name=WehnertKMV/>

=== Museums ===

==== Radebeul ====
[[File:Villa Shatterhand.jpg|thumb|right|220px|May's Villa Shatterhand]]
[[File:Karl May Museum Baerenfett.jpg|thumb|right|220px|Villa Bärenfett]]
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 Americans in the United States|Native American]] life of that era.<ref name=NY>{{cite news|last1=Galchen|first1=Rivka|title=Wild West Germany|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/04/09/wild-west-germany|magazine=The New Yorker|date=2 April 2012|language=en}}</ref>  It was founded in 1928 by May's widow and an eccentric Austrian named [[:de:Patty Frank|Ernst Tobis]].<ref name=NYT>{{cite news |author=Eddy, Melissa | url= https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/18/world/europe/germanys-fascination-with-american-old-west-native-american-scalps-human-remains.html |work= New York Times |title= Germany's fascination with American old West, Native American scalps human remains |date= 17 August 2014 |access-date= 3 May 2018}}</ref>  When the [[Nazi Germany|Nazis]] took over Germany, they appropriated the museum and the image of May, and were especially focused on [[swastika]]s that appeared in some of the Native American artwork.  Hitler Youth were encouraged to visit the museum and hear stories from Tobis.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Penny|first1=H. Glenn|title=Kindred by Choice: Germans and American Indians Since 1800|date=2013|publisher=UNC Press Books|isbn=9781469607641|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HV4DAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA166|language=en|page=166}}</ref> After World War II, the original museum remained in [[East Germany]] and a replica was built in [[Bamberg]] in [[West Germany]].<ref name=Weaver>{{cite book|last1=Weaver|first1=Jace|title=Other Words: American Indian Literature, Law, and Culture|date=2001|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|isbn=9780806133522|language=en|url=https://archive.org/details/otherwordsameric0000weav|url-access=registration}}</ref>{{rp|73}}  From 1956 to 1984, the museum in Radebeul was called the "Indianer Museum", because May's books were suppressed by the East German government; its original name was restored in 1986.<ref name=NY/>  Around 2010, controversy arose over [[Scalping|scalps]], some of them from Native Americans, that were in the museum's collection.<ref name=NYT/>

==== Hohenstein-Ernstthal ====
The "Karl May House" ("Karl-May-Haus") is the three-centuries-old [[weaving|weaver house]] where May was born. Since 12 March 1985, it has been a memorial and museum. It shows an original weaving room and non-German book editions. The garden has been arranged according to May's description in his memoirs.

Opposite the house is the International Karl May Heritage Center ("Karl-May-Begegnungsstätte"), which is used for events and special exhibitions. In [[Hohenstein-Ernstthal]], called "Karl May Home Town" since 1992, every May-related place has a [[commemorative plaque]]. These places are connected by a "Karl May Path" ("Karl-May-Wanderweg"). Outside the city lies the "Karl May Cave" ("Karl-May-Höhle"), where May found shelter during his criminal times.<ref name=NeubertMuseumHE>Neubert A. ''Karl-May-Haus (Hohenstein-Ernstthal)'' in ''Karl-May-Handbuch'' pp. 546–547.</ref>

=== Societies ===
In the 1890s, there were Karl May clubs.<ref>Wohlgschaft: ''Karl May&nbsp;– Leben und Werk''. p. 1029</ref> Today, various entities focus on research about the author.<ref name=HeinemannOrganePerspektiven>Heinemann E. ''Organe und Perspektiven der Karl-May-Forschung''. In: Ueding: ''Karl-May-Handbuch'', pp 559–564.</ref> These organisations exist in German-speaking regions, the Netherlands, Australia and [[Indonesia]]. While such societies are responsible for the release of most May-related periodicals, for example, ''Der Beobachter an der Elbe'', ''Karl-May-Haus Information'', ''Wiener Karl-May-Brief'', and ''Karl May in Leipzig'', the magazine ''Karl May & Co.'' is published independently.

The "Karl May Society" (KMG), founded on 22 March 1969, is the largest organisation, with approximately 1800 members.<ref>''Satzung der Karl-May-Gesellschaft e.V.'' 2 March 2010.</ref> The KMG publishes ''Jahrbuch'', ''Mitteilungen'', ''Sonderhefte der Karl-May-Gesellschaft'', and ''KMG-Nachrichten'' and reprints. Since 2008 and in cooperation with the Karl May Foundation and the Karl May Press, the KMG has published the [[Textual criticism|critiqued edition]] of "Karl Mays Werke". This project was initiated by [[Hans Wollschläger]] and Hermann Wiedenroth in 1987.<ref name=WehnertText>Wehnert J. ''Der Text''. In Ueding: ''Karl-May-Handbuch'', pp. 116–130.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.karl-mays-werke.de/editionsplan.pdf |title=Edition plannings. |access-date=26 September 2010 |archive-date=19 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719051426/http://www.karl-mays-werke.de/editionsplan.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>