Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "The image of Native Americans in German popular culture is in a number of cases an outdated, anachronistic, outsider fantasy of "Red Indians" as noble savages, which bears little resemblance to the lives of contemporary Indigenous peoples in the Americas. This romanticised view of Indigenous peoples, notably the Plains Indians, has had specific influences on folklore, environmentalism, literature, art, historical reenactment, theatrical and film depictions in Germany. Hartmut Lutz coined the term "Indianthusiasm" for this phenomenon.The largest influence on the German imagination of Native Americans is the work of Karl May (1842–1912), who wrote various novels about the American Wild West which relied upon, and further developed, this romantic image. With sales of more than 50 million copies, he is among the most popular authors (of formula fiction) in the German language. These specifically German fantasies and projections about Indianer (a term that refers to Native Americans in the United States, but also to natives of the Pacific, Central and Latin America, and "Red Indians" in the stereotypical sense) have influenced generations of Germans. However, Karl May never visited America, or had any direct contact with Native American people, before he wrote these influential works, making the foundation of this view fictional, and based on Racial stereotypes of Native Americans along with cultural misrepresentation and misappropriation rather than reality."@en }
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- Native_Americans_in_German_popular_culture abstract "The image of Native Americans in German popular culture is in a number of cases an outdated, anachronistic, outsider fantasy of "Red Indians" as noble savages, which bears little resemblance to the lives of contemporary Indigenous peoples in the Americas. This romanticised view of Indigenous peoples, notably the Plains Indians, has had specific influences on folklore, environmentalism, literature, art, historical reenactment, theatrical and film depictions in Germany. Hartmut Lutz coined the term "Indianthusiasm" for this phenomenon.The largest influence on the German imagination of Native Americans is the work of Karl May (1842–1912), who wrote various novels about the American Wild West which relied upon, and further developed, this romantic image. With sales of more than 50 million copies, he is among the most popular authors (of formula fiction) in the German language. These specifically German fantasies and projections about Indianer (a term that refers to Native Americans in the United States, but also to natives of the Pacific, Central and Latin America, and "Red Indians" in the stereotypical sense) have influenced generations of Germans. However, Karl May never visited America, or had any direct contact with Native American people, before he wrote these influential works, making the foundation of this view fictional, and based on Racial stereotypes of Native Americans along with cultural misrepresentation and misappropriation rather than reality.".