Who doesn't know him? Karl May succeeded like no other in his rise from imprisoned impostor to mass entertainer. With Winnetou and Old Shatterhand, he created his own legend and inspired millions. In their essay Karl May (2024), Enis Maci and Mazlum Nergiz reconstruct the globally ramified reception history surrounding the phenomenon of Karl May and also ask: What does his life and work have to do with the present and with colonial histories? True to the motto: «Everything show, everything true», amazing things come to light. The fifteen tracks on Max Weber's album Mount Ararat are the soundtrack to the book. From trucker country to acid disco, from road trips through wild Kurdistan to the land of the Skipetars, the strangely familiar is reinvented.