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 his friends 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 hugely enjoyable degree in History of Ideas and English Literature at Middlesex Poly.

Today, Hanspeter Kuenzler contributes regularly to publications as diverse as Neue Zürcher Zeitung, NZZamSonntag, IWC´s Watch International, Annabelle, Beobachter Natur, Mittellandzeitung, Basler Zeitung, St. Galler Tagblatt, lifestyle magazine Bolero, arts magazine ensuite, Velojournal, Loop, R.E.S.P.E.C.T., German brass music magazine Clarino, German gastro magazine Fizzz as well as the 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 contributs to the guitar magazine Guitar Dreams.

Hanspeter Kuenzler is the official UK sports correspondent for Neue Zürcher Zeitung and NZZaS where he writes at least one story every week about all aspects of football in Britain. He has turned one such story - about why it is that football and many other types of team sports seem to have their origin in the UK - into a 30 minute documentary for NZZ's television wing, Format NZZ.

Hanspeter "Düsi" Kuenzler is a frequent contributor to national Swiss Radio DRS, most often in the evening music show "Sounds!". He writes a weekly column for the "Sounds!" Facebook page.

During the 1990s, until the BBC reduced and then dissolved their German Service, he produced and presented a regular music show on the BBC World Service. His stories and interviews have been published in many countries, including Japan, Mexico, Austria, Germany, Russia, Holland, Spain, Australia, New Zealand, India, South Africa and USA. He has stumbled across "bootlegged" versions of his writing in publications as far afield as China, Austria and Brasil.

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".

Following the publication of "Black Or White", he received many letters from fans. He also met up with a good few of them, in London, Germany and Switzerland, and became increasingly fascinated by the Michael Jackson fan community. This led to the decision to write a second book, "Der Thriller um Michael Jackson" (Hannibal), a book about the fan community, based on many interviews with fans as well as the responses to a questionnaire sent out via fan clubs.

Hanspeter Kuenzler has interviewed some of the world's biggest stars and - rarely the same - some of the most interesting artists around. All are recorded on cassette, minidisc or MP3, 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 Glasvegas, and from Louis Moholo to Jay-Z. The collection today contains around 1500 interviews.

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!

Besides all his usual specialist subjects, Hanspeter Kuenzler thoroughly enjoys writing about all kinds of topics, including the fascination of trains, the strange history of stamp collecting, or the history of drinking in the UK (another story turned into a Format NZZ television documentary).

In other words: Hanspeter Kuenzler is more than happy to be commissioned to write stories that take him off his own beaten track.