Silke Weitendorf promotes children’s book culture with the foundation named after her – in the house in Hamburg where the Oetinger publishing family has welcomed authors such as Paul Maar and Astrid Lindgren.
Sams sits on the shelf between Willi Wiberg and a fat Olchi and looks into a large garden. The shelf with the plush children’s book characters is in the light-flooded living room of an old house in the Duvenstedt district, not far from fields and paddocks where horses graze. Silke Weitendorf is working in the kitchen. Makes coffee, clinks the porcelain and points out the fresh cinnamon rolls.