Marah Durimeh

Marah Durimeh is a fictional character from Karl May's novels around Kara Ben Nemsi.

Karl May intended to write several novels about her, similar to the Winnetou series, but he never got to it.

The character changed from the wild and ugly creature of early publications to what he understood as the female Orient counterpart to the Indian chief Winnetou, both personifying mysticism and the ascent from a low, lustful person, rising to become a nobly spirited person.

He states in his autobiography that he modelled the character after his own grandmother, with whom he was very close and who raised him in his early childhood, especially during his blindness.

Kara Ben Nemsi meets these persons many times and also encounters her often.