Editing Karl May (section)

=== 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/>