Sibylle Berg is a novelist and playwright, born in Weimar, who lives in Zurich. Her novels include Ein paar Leute suchen das Glück und lachen sich tot (Some People Search for Luck and Die Laughing, 1997) and Vielen Dank für das Leben (Thanks Very Much for Life, 2012). She wrote and directed the production Angst reist mit (Fear on Board) which was staged at Staatstheater Stuttgart in 2013. She writes the regular column Fragen Sie Frau Sibylle (Ask Mrs Sibylle) for Spiegel Online.