articles to track down:
“Cowboys und Indians.(Germans celebrate American West)” (Newsweek, Aug. 2002, by Stefan Thiel)
“How American Is It: The U. S. as Image and Imaginary in German Film” (The German Quarterly, Vol. 57, No. 4, 1984, pp. 603-620, by Eric Rentschler)
“Unsettling America: German Westerns and Modernity” (Modernism/modernity, Vol. 2, No. 3, 1995, pp. 1-22, by Lutz P. Koepnick)