Klaus Merz is one of the most well-known Swiss writers. Now, readers have the opportunity to discover one of the more hidden sides of the author, namely a selection of his portraits, reports, and essays that Merz has written over the years. But one should not be misled here: these are not ordinary journalistic texts, but "encounters" set in literature, as one knows and appreciates from Klaus Merz. Markus Kutter writes in his foreword: "At first, I thought: There is Klaus Merz, who writes his profound and sometimes insidious stories, and then there is Klaus Merz, who writes texts on demand for editors and gives speeches by invitation. So - fiction on one side, journalism on the other. Then I began to read more closely after a fleeting glance and realized that I was completely mistaken.".