Hilmar Klute / Dirk Schmidt
The dog's life of an accidental dog owner
The dog’s life of an accidental dog owner.
Dogs have never interested the writer and editor Hilmar Klute. But then, one day, Winston appears: bow-legged Winston with his bat ears and bottle nose, abandoned in a graveyard by mean people. Hilmar Klute's life will never be the same again. Winston makes it crystal clear that he wants to go home with him, and then proceeds to pee on the parquet, chew reading glasses, cushions and telephone cables, devastate the décor and guarantee sleepless nights. The never-longed-for canine turns out to be as stubborn as he is irresistible. And soon Winston is introducing his new "master" to worlds he never knew existed: he learns the do's and dont's of dog-walking in public places, can soon distinguish between the different breeds of dog owner and hold his own among the myriad dog experts. Every attempt to train Winston fails miserably and yet, quite unintentionally, provides Hilmar Klute with the material for this most unusual, immensely pleasurable rea
Hilmar Klute was born in 1967. He is an editor and columnist at the Süddeutsche Zeitung.
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Dirk Schmidt, born in 1980, studied communication design. He is married and has two daughters. He works as a freelance graphic designer and illustrator in Munich. Together with his mother, he invents picture book stories and illustrates them.
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