Following Her Voice

I keep tabs on Nora Tschirner’s voice work—German dubs, animated films, games sometimes. Her voice has a particular quality that survives medium shifts. So when I found out she was playing Greta Lemke in Trüberbrook, I picked it up.

It’s a point-and-click adventure set in 1967, that specific moment when everything felt like it was coming apart at the seams. The Cold War was at maximum tension, the space race was ramping up, and in West Germany the student movement was starting to splinter the social consensus. Into this world comes Hans Tannhauser, an American physics graduate in his late twenties, who wins a vacation to Trüberbrook—a small spa town in the German countryside that he’s never heard of, to a contest he doesn’t remember entering. When he arrives, his papers vanish from his hotel room. Someone’s trying to contact him. Everyone in the town is strange in specific, calculated ways. Greta shows up as the almost-normal one, another scientist who’s there doing research, before it becomes clear that Tannhauser isn’t there by accident.

There’s something about point-and-click adventures that works—you move through a world at your own pace, reading everything, noticing what doesn’t fit. The 1967 setting gives the whole thing weight, even when it’s just a mystery-box game. That period carries gravity in any narrative.

Tschirner’s voice direction keeps it grounded. The writing is competent enough that the mystery doesn’t feel arbitrary. It’s not essential, but if you’re looking for something specific—a puzzle set in a real place, with actual voice acting—it’s there.