facetten 14. steffenschoeni. Hatake: An expedition into Japanese gardening culture

Author Biography

Heidi Schoni, born in 1953, is a trained primary school teacher. She studied at the Zurich University of the Arts and has been a freelance artist and teacher since 1981. Karl Steffen, born in 1953, trained as a chemical laboratory assistant. He received further training in biochemics and photography in the U.S. Heidi Schoni and Karl Steffen live and work together at the Schmidshof in the canton Thurgau. Christoph Neidhart, born in 1954, lives in Tokyo, where he works as a correspondent for several German-language newspapers. Martin Preisser, born in 1962, arts editor at the St.Galler Tagblatt, lives with and for the arts in Eastern Switzerland.