Niklaus Meienberg (1940 – 1993) lived in Zurich and Paris. He worked as a writer and a freelance journalist, including for Spiegel, Stern, WochenZeitung and Tages-Anzeiger. Meienberg won many awards, among them the ›Zurich Journalism Prize‹, the ›Max Frisch Prize‹ and the ›St. Gallen Culture Prize‹.