Walter Pfaff has directed theatre in Austria, Germany, Switzerland and India. From 1996 to 2005 he was director of the Centre de Travail de Recherches Théâtrales in Burgundy, France, and until 2010 artistic director of the MAXIM Theatre in Zurich. He has been a guest professor at Osaka, Salzburg, and Zurich Universities. Since 2012 he has worked as a theatre-maker at psychiatric clinics in Switzerland. Tschau, Sepp is his first film.