Reinforcement for our team

You've been supporting our team as project manager since 15 February 2018. Great to have you on board! Please introduce yourself briefly and tell us a bit about what brought you to the audio production and voice-over industry.

I grew up in Hildesheim and, after finishing school, studied translation for French, English and Italian in Germersheim, Dijon and Leipzig. After a stopover in Stuttgart for an internship in Daimler's language services department, I moved to Berlin in 2010, where I've felt very much at home ever since. First I did an internship here at an agency for subtitling and dubbing. There I mainly learned to create subtitles, but I was also able to sit in on recordings in the studio. Even then I found it fascinating how voice artists use their voices and how this creates moods and emotions. That was, so to speak, my first contact with the voice-over industry. After that I worked in project management at a traditional translation agency for almost four years. I really enjoyed the work, but soon I felt the need to discover something new. After a short break, which I used to travel around the world, I came across a job advertisement from a voice agency looking for a project manager for international projects. That sounded like the ideal opportunity to combine my language skills, my project management abilities and my interest in voice recording. I worked there for two years before coming to speaker-search.

How did you come up with the idea of applying to speaker-search as a project manager?

For one thing, speaker-search's database includes many voice artists I value highly and have already worked with. For another, my last employer mainly produced voice-overs for corporate films, e-learning and commercials. But I also find the field of accessible film very exciting and am looking forward to gaining insights into the creation of audio descriptions at speaker-search. I had already heard that speaker-search had been nominated for the German Audio Description Award in each of the last two years. I also find it very exciting that we have studios and editing suites on site, so I also get a closer look at the technical side. The decisive point for me, however, was that when I spent two days shadowing here in December last year, I felt at home from the very first moment.

What are your responsibilities at speaker-search?

At speaker-search I work in project management. I take care of client enquiries, preparing quotes, booking voice artists and studios, and carrying out projects. I also take on some office management tasks. 

What do you enjoy most about your work?

What I enjoy most is dealing directly with clients and voice artists. I like coordinating and organising. I find the challenge of finding exactly the right voices for a client's project particularly interesting. It's often not just about the voice itself. It's much more about the overall dynamic, where it can also matter how the voice artist and the client work together in the studio, so that a truly creative process develops. My highlight so far was a project for which I had to find a voice for a cartoon version of a big bad wolf.

In general, I like the fact that here at speaker-search we deal with lots of different people every day, with whom we not only work together on a highly professional level but also maintain a personal relationship.

That sounds like a demanding and challenging job. How do you clear your head after work?

I switch off best when I'm dangling upside down on aerial silks. I've been doing this form of aerial acrobatics for several years now. I also like sitting at my sewing machine with arte on in the background, and I'm always pleased when I hear a familiar voice.