Michael Buselmeier was born in 1938 in Berlin and grew up in Heidelberg, where he still lives as a writer, publicist, editor, and literary city guide. In 2010, Buselmeier received the Ben Witter Prize from the ZEIT Foundation, in 2011 he was shortlisted for the German Book Prize with "Wunsiedel," and in 2014 he was awarded the Gustav Regler Prize by the city of Merzig and Saarland Broadcasting.