Brice had played the Apache chief Winnetou in the novel adaptations, Barker his blood brother Old Shatterhand. Klopp added: “To this day I’m a big advocate of the happy ending. I want to believe in the good. I know it’s not always good.” But there are areas “where we do everything we can to make it all work out because we only have this one life, as far as we know,” emphasized the current coach of the “Reds”, before that a former coach of Borussia Dortmund and FSV Mainz 05: “And our job is to make it as cool and beautiful as possible. And that’s what I’m trying to do.”
In Germany there is currently a debate about cultural appropriation and racism surrounding the Winnetou stories. It began after the Ravensburger publishing house announced in mid-August that it would stop the delivery of two children’s books for the film of the same name “The Young Chief Winnetou” and remove them from the program. Klopp did not comment on these controversies.
Source: Nachrichten
