A hanging chair having a spreading stick and drawstring tunnels on the hanging chair surface for receiving suspension strings. The base section of the hanging chair surface of the hanging chair has at least one approximately rectangular seat surface and a trapezoidal back surface attached to the seat surface. The seat surface and back surface have common continuously connected drawstring tunnels on the lateral edges. The lateral drawstring tunnels of the seat surface and back surface bring about, by suspension strings guided therein, a lateral gathering of the entire hanging chair surface. The gathering on the suspended hanging chair forms a steeper profile of the back surface with respect to the flatter extending seat surface.