THE ZYBACH FILE

2026 | THE ZYBACH FILE

A drama on the Grimsel 

By the mid-19th century, his name was known throughout the Haslital: Peter Zybach. The charismatic innkeeper turned the Grimsel Hospice into the place to stay for travellers crossing the pass into the Valais. With unbridled determination and a visionary pioneering spirit, the poor farmer’s son rose to become one of the most influential men in the region. But success comes at a price. Envy, wounded pride and Zybach’s ever-growing greed drive him, bit by bit, towards the abyss, until he is forced to make a fateful decision that goes down in Swiss history as the first major insurance fraud.

Landschaftstheater Ballenberg

Direction: Simon Burkhalter