The writer Clemens Meyer (47) invested almost all of his welcome money in Karl May novels after reunification. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in the fall of 1989, he traveled with his mother from Leipzig to West Berlin and bought the books there for five Deutschmarks each. They all broke quickly. "It wasn't good quality," said Meyer.
Clemens Meyer grew up in Leipzig. After GDR citizens were able to travel to the Federal Republic of Germany from November 9, 1989, each of them received 100 Deutschmarks as so-called welcome money. Meyer said that he spent 90 marks of this money on Karl May books. "We also had to buy Coke."
The author's new novel "The Projectors" is on the longlist for the German Book Prize. The plot takes place on the set of the German Winnetou films from the 1960s. A "Dr. May" also keeps popping up in the 1,000-page book. It will be published on August 28.
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