In 1998, a kid from Arizona went to Switzerland as an exchange student. Now he tells its stories.
History class covers kings and battles. We wanted to know what ordinary people did all day. How they got through a winter. What they ate when the harvest failed. Who carried the mail over the mountains.
Old Swiss Life answers those questions, one story at a time.
Every episode is made twice: in English as Old Swiss Life, and in German as Stubengeschichten, for the people whose history it is.
People who love history but are tired of kings and battles, and Swiss viewers who want their own past told in their own language.
Every episode is researched, scripted, voiced, illustrated and edited, then built a second time in German with its own titles and upload package. AI is in the toolkit. The research, the story and the hours are ours.
Each episode is reviewed for what held viewers and what didn't, and the next one gets better. It's a love letter to a country that changed one exchange student's life.
An animated YouTube series about everyday life in old Switzerland: how ordinary people worked, ate and got through hard winters.
Yes. Every episode is also made in German on the channel Stubengeschichten.
Episodes include the winter Lake Constance froze (1573), the year Switzerland had no summer (1816), and the mule drivers of the Gotthard (1707).
