Michael Kientzler was born in Hannover, Germany, where he attended the local Waldorf School. After studying at the Christian Community Seminary in Stuttgart for a year, he read biology at Tubingen University and at the University of Pennsylvania. He then returned to the Seminary and was ordained in 1972. After working in as a priest in Stuttgart for twenty-three years, he moved to Vancouver, Canada, and later to Forest Row, England. He lives near Basel, Switzerland.
