Hanspeter Kuenzler is a London-based Swiss freelance journalist specialising in music, arts and football. He left Zurich due to the usual musical differences after having failed to convince anyone that an accordion should be allowed in a New Wave band. In London, he began to write for the now defunct but legendary Zurich newspaper "21i" whilst completing a degree in History of Ideas and English Literature.

Today, Hanspeter Kuenzler contributes regularly to publications as diverse as Neue Zürcher Zeitung, NZZamSonntag, IWC´s Watch International, Annabelle, Bonviva, Blick, Mittellandzeitung, Basler Zeitung, St. Galler Tagblatt, Velojournal, Du, Loop, German brass music magazine Clarino, German gastro magazine Fizzz and the fantastic arts web-journal www.the-title.com.

In the UK, he writes for Sublime Magazine. He has represented the leading German rock/indie magazine Musik Express in the UK for well over a decade and also writes for German quarterly Sounds. He is a frequent contributor to national Swiss Radio DRS. During the 1990s he produced and presented a regular music show on the BBC World Service. His stories and interviews have been published in magazines and newspapers in many countries, including Japan, Mexico, Austria, Germany, Holland, Spain, Australia, New Zealand, India, South Africa and USA.

Early in June 2009, Hanspeter Kuenzler completed a biography of Michael Jackson, "Black or White", commissioned by German/Austrian publishers Hannibal-Verlag. By an amazing and macabre coincidence, the book was supposed to go into print on Friday 26th of June - Michael died the night before. Printing was delayed until the Monday, the author added a new foreword and a new chapter at the end. Two weeks later the book became an instant bestseller, reaching number 1 in Switzerland, number 6 in Germany and also reaching the top 10 in Austria. "Diese Dialektik aus äusserster Offenheit und totaler Verkapselung in sich selbst, aus hpyermodernem Eklektizismus und naivster Weltfremdheit bringt Hanspeter Künzler in dieser Biografie hervorragend auf den Begriff. Musikhistorische Erläuterungen, popästhetische Analysen und die unvermeidlichen individual- und familienpsychologischen Spekulationen greifen hier gekonnt ineinander." wrote German literary magazine "Literaturen".

Hanspeter Kuenzler's archive now contains well over a thousand interviews with some of the world's biggest stars and - rarely the same - some of the most interesting artists around. All are recorded on cassette or minidisc and are available for use in print media and radio. The palette ranges from Fela Kuti to Elton John and Arctic Monkeys, Annette Peacock to Marilyn Manson and Fratellis, and from Louis Moholo to Jay-Z.

For twenty-five years, Hanspeter Kuenzler has also kept an archive of music- and arts-related material from the UK press. This archive now contains several thousand wallets stuffed with old-skool newspaper clippings - much easier to peruse than a Google-list of links!

Hanspeter Kuenzler is also the UK sports correspondent for Neue Zürcher Zeitung. And he thoroughly enjoys writing about topics like the fascination of trains, or the strange history of stamp collecting, or the history of drinking in the UK (a story which, like several others, has been turned into a television documentary by Format NZZ). In other words: Hanspeter Kuenzler is more than happy to be commissioned to write stories that take him off his own beaten track.