Friedrich Karl Waechter (F.K. Waechter) was born in 1939 in Danzing, currently Poland. He studied Graphic Arts in Hamburg and started to make contributions for several newspapers and magazines with his full of comedy and irony comic strips.
In 1966 he published the famous Anti-Struwwelpeter: the anti-authoritarian version of a classic of German children’s literature (Der Struwwelpeter), gaining public and critical recognition.
In 1999 he was awarded with the German Children and Young Adults’ Literature Award.
F.K. Waecher passed away in 2005.
A story about a small dog that is reared by wolves and becomes part of their pack. However, he is wounded in a wolf hunting and brought to a wealthy family home, whose daughter manages to save his life and becomes his friend. She promises that, when his life comes to an end, she will take him to the cliff where all the dead wolves, including his wolf mother, rest.
The red wolf was awarded with the German Children’s Literature Prize
“… it is both a delicious tribute, a respect for nature, and a defense of all living beings’ dignity, whatever their condition; its wonderful, clean stroked pictures, in which frantic motion alternates with the most touching peacefulness, are the best tribute to life in all its expressions.” (Babar Magazine).
" a beautiful story about love and life, that reminds us the fact that everything, even love, has an end" (Cuatrogatos Foundation)
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