Tribute: RTS journalist Marlène Métrailler has died

RTS announced the death of Marlène Métrailler, which occurred on Tuesday, August 5. No additional information has been shared. Passionate literary journalist, emblematic voice of cultural programs of public radio, she retired in 2021, after more than three decades spent sharing her curiosity, her intellectual generosity and her constant wonder for creation.

Born in Sierre in Valais, she joined the RTS in 1989. She started there with the news, before quickly joining the domain that fascinates her: culture. We owe him significant contributions in emissions such as “between the lines”, “characters”, “the head upside down” or “versus-lire”. In 2004, she participated in the launch of “Dare-Dare”, a daily cultural magazine broadcast on Espace 2, which will later become “Vertigo” on the first. She collaborates until the end, especially in the podcast “Qwertz”, where she signed in 2021 a superb series on Rainer Maria Rilke.

Before the radio, she had already surveyed the world of publishing, especially that of comics, a medium which she defended with ardor. His precise eye, his taste for narrative and well -posed features had made it essential in the French -speaking literary landscape.

In the RTS artist, Marlène Métrailler is described as a person “never jaded and always in discovery”. She introduced the Romand public to the public number of cultural personalities that she spotted without a blow. Until the youngest, which she followed with an equal interest. Thus, during the Pandemic of the Covid, she was the first to be interested in the fate of young artists and their future.

Marlène Métrailler leaves the memory of a curious, passionate, and deeply human woman.