ABOUT US
Texetera GmbH was launched in summer 2005 and has since established itself as a major provider of audio guides in Switzerland. It employs numerous freelance translators, speakers and writers, but at its core is a compact team of two.
Erik Thurnherr, director
Graduated in electrical engineering from the Federal Polytechnic in Lausanne, but then switched to journalism, gaining a diploma in communication studies and journalism from the University of Fribourg.
He moved via the Swiss press agency SDA and local radio to Swiss television. For four years from 1998 he worked on the science programme “Menschen Technik Wissenschaft” (MTW), for two of them as presenter. He subsequently spent three years as an ICRC delegate (Sri Lanka, Kosovo, Chechnya).
He returned to television in 2005, working part time for the science programme "nano" on 3Sat and doing contract work for MTW and other media. At the same time he founded and developed Texetera, where he has worked 200% of his time since 2007.
Rolf Büttikofer, Sound
Having grown up with music, he got into sound by working in films as a boom operator, is now a film sound engineer and lord of the mixing desk in his own Zone 33 sound studio.
He is fascinated by the task of recording original sounds and mixing them with music, sound effects and the spoken word to create a final product.
There's something special about an audio guide: Sound without pictures opens up all kinds of possibilities. Well-crafted audio scenes create the film inside our heads. The sound is the soul of the film, as a famous director once said...
