H. R. Giger
Not much is known of Li Tobler's early life. She was born in Switzerland in 1947. In 1966, at the age of eighteen, she met artist H. R. Giger while she was studying acting in K. Rellstab's drama studio in Zürich. According to Giger, she had "an enormous vitality and a great appetite for life" and wished her life to be "short and intense".