German Voices

ARIELA SARBACHER was born in Zürich in 1965. She was trained at the Schauspielakademie Zürich and performed until 1995 in Germany at the Stadttheater Heidelberg and the Bremer Shakespeare Company. In Zurich in 2002, she founded the EINFLUSS school (www.einfluss.ch) based on her method of presence-training. She works as an actress and voice actress for the Swiss Library for the Blind and Visually impaired, among other organizations.

THOMAS SARBACHER works as an actor in Germany and Switzerland. After years in the ensemble of the Bremer Shakespeare Company, he performed in theaters in Konstanz, Zürich and Hamburg. He also worked for film and television, becoming known to a broad public. Today he often performs at readings and records audio books for The Swiss Library for the Blind and the Visually Impaired. He also develops theater productions that he stages in Zürich. In the Theater Winkelwiese he leads the ‘Sarbacher Reading’ series and leads the ‘Sarbacher Reads World Literature Classics’ reading series in the Literature House in Basel.