Dolly Röschli (b. 1975) is one of the best-known mediums in German-speaking Switzerland. She grew up in the Emmental, trained at the Arthur Findlay College in England, and has been working full-time in her own practice in the Zurich Oberland since 2003. Her book Hallo, Jenseits – Mein Dialog mit der geistigen Welt (Wörterseh Verlag, 2018) became a Swiss bestseller.
A childhood in the Emmental
Dolly Röschli was born in 1975 in Wyssachen, in the Bernese Emmental. As a small child she perceived deceased people invisible to others – among them her great-grandfather, whom she had never met in person. Her family first dismissed it as imagination, until it turned out that the girl knew details about relatives she could not have known.
During her school years in Huttwil this ability became a burden. She often felt like an outsider and just wanted to "be normal". After school she moved to Zurich, completed a commercial apprenticeship and later worked as a flight attendant.
From cabin crew to Arthur Findlay College
At around twenty she faced a decision: keep suppressing what she perceived – or learn to handle it properly. She enrolled at the Arthur Findlay College in Stansted Hall, England, the world's leading school for mediumship training in the tradition of British Spiritualism.
There she learned not only to use her perception deliberately, but also the opposite: how to "switch it off" so that she would not be picking up other people's deceased in everyday life. This self-control is one of the central themes of her training – and exactly the difference between a trained medium and a person who simply "has" the perception and is often overwhelmed by it.
With this English schooling she stands in the same line as Pascal Voggenhuber or Paul Meek: urban, methodically trained evidence-based mediumship, which in Switzerland exists in parallel to the older Alpine healing tradition (see Mediumship in Switzerland).
Her own practice since 2003
At first Dolly Röschli held sessions in the evenings, alongside her job. Since 2003 she has worked exclusively as a medium. Her practice is located in Aathal-Seegräben in the Zurich Oberland, at Zürichstraße 17.
Today she offers:
- Individual sessions – mediumistic readings and contact with the deceased.
- Group evenings and afterlife demonstrations.
- Grief support for the bereaved.
- Seminars and workshops, including the "Am I mediumistic?" format.
On her website she explicitly recommends not consulting a medium more than twice a year. That is a remarkably restrained suggestion in a market that usually sells in the opposite direction.
Method: evidence-based mediumship, not fortune-telling
Dolly Röschli emphasises that she is not a clairvoyant for the future. The centre of her work is contact with specific deceased people – parents, grandparents, partners, children, sometimes distant relatives the medium cannot know. The methodology behind it is classically English: names, dates, small biographical details the bereaved can recognise. Only then come the messages.
This sequence – evidence first, comfort afterwards – is the hallmark of the school in which she trained. It is what separates her practice from forms of reading where the medium merely "senses" things that could fit anyone.
"I understand the scepticism. But I cannot change the fact that I really do have these perceptions."
"Hallo, Jenseits" – the book
In 2018 her autobiography Hallo, Jenseits – Mein Dialog mit der geistigen Welt ("Hello, Afterlife – My Dialogue with the Spirit World") appeared at the Swiss publisher Wörterseh. A paperback followed in 2019, along with an audiobook version, and later guided meditations under the title Hallo, Jenseits – Meditieren mit Dolly Röschli.
The book tells, very personally, how the frightened child from Wyssachen who just wanted to "be normal" became a woman who today stands publicly and by her real name behind her mediumistic work. It became a bestseller in Switzerland – a notable success for a book that does without mystification and without sensational tone.
An unusually public role
What sets Dolly Röschli apart from many other mediums is her presence in Swiss mainstream media. She has appeared in several major programmes:
- SRF Sternstunde Religion: in the episode "Contact with the Deceased: Humbug or Reality?" she discussed her work with a sceptical pastor – on equal terms, without defensiveness. The piece is catalogued on our Knowledge page.
- SRF Glanz & Gloria (2019): a reporter conducted a personal test session in her practice.
- Tele Züri "TalkTäglich" and the Bernese station NEO1.
- Portraits in Blick, Berner Zeitung, Tages-Anzeiger and Zürcher Oberländer.
She uses this stage strikingly quietly. She speaks calmly, without grand gestures, and describes her own daily life as a "completely normal Swiss family life" – married, three children, garden, family. This groundedness is part of her impact: it makes the subject discussable for an audience that has little patience for classical esoterica.
Why Dolly Röschli matters
- School and method: Arthur Findlay training with a clear evidence-based line – not gut feeling, but names, dates, details.
- Twenty years of practice: full-time since 2003 in her own practice. A rare constancy in a volatile market.
- Mainstream acceptance: SRF Sternstunde, Glanz & Gloria, major newspapers. Few mediums in the German-speaking world have entered the public conversation to that degree.
- Groundedness: family life, calm speech, explicit recommendation not to consult a medium more than twice a year. Little selling, much care.
Dolly Röschli shows what the Swiss version of evidence-based mediumship looks like today: methodologically English, personally grounded, publicly present – and without the agitation that often accompanies the subject in Germany and Austria.