Germany’s most read author, Karl May, wrote a series of western novels based on the characters Winnetou, a Native American, and the cowboy Old Shatterhand without ever visiting North America. In fact, upon making his first trip to “the west”, he made it as far as Buffalo, New York before breaking down, returning home, and never writing another western. Later these novels were adapted to TV with a German actor playing Shatterhand, a French actor playing Winnetou, and filming taking place in Yugoslavia. At the same time in the 1960’s, Hollywood B Movies, in an effort to save on production costs, were filmed on the previous sets of other, often incompatible movies. High Lonesome is a series of events staged in January 2008, that transposes the “Western” onto the incongruous set of Berlin, Germany. Here a cowboy attempts to lasso a bronze horse at the Altes Museum, plays harmonica at Walter Benjamin Platz and rides a pony at the Reichstag. Video Link