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There are voices you recognise before you know whose they are. Joachim Kerzel had a voice like that. Dark, sandy, with that quiet smile in…

What if you could simply describe a voice instead of searching for it? That's exactly what you can do on speaker-search.de from today. You…

If you listen to a German documentary from the eighties, you recognise the sound before the first sentence is over. Warm, dark, a bit like…

Last Saturday our “Loft-Kultur” celebrated its tenth edition. Together with around 150 guests, including voice artists, clients and friends,…

The audio description for Ari Folman's film “Where Is Anne Frank” won the German Audio Description Award (Deutscher Hörfilmpreis) 2024 in…

Our agency loft in Berlin's Schillerkiez has always been a space for ideas and exchange, too. On 21 October, Susanne Hauf and Nora Jensen…

In our blog series “The little language lexicon”, today's topic is the Danish language. It is descended from the language of the Vikings,…

Thomas Vinterberg's film “Another Round” (Der Rausch) won the Oscar for Best International Feature Film at the 2021 Academy Awards. We…

What does solidarity mean right now? Four experts from the fields of voice, communication and culture talk about their experiences since the…

On 25 March 2021 the award-winning film “Another Round” (Der Rausch) opens in Germany. For Kinoblindgänger gGmbH we recorded the audio…

Since 2016 the “Browser Ballett” has been delighting the online community. Our voices have been part of the format as off-screen voices…

Part six of the ARTE documentary series “Aus der Traum?” paints an in-depth portrait of the USA after the election. Our voice artists…

Back in April 2020 we founded the initiative “Solidarität stimmt!” (Solidarity rings true!) within our industry. You can find out exactly…

Not even Father Christmas can avoid digitalising his business. In its entertaining 2020 Christmas spot, Fujitsu helps him do it – with our…

Next Wednesday the German Audio Description Award 2020 will be presented. We are nominated in the Documentary category for the accessible…

For our solidarity initiative “Solidarität stimmt!”, Liz Phoebe Korndörfer has recorded Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's “The Little Prince”. We…

Actor and Lindenstraße star Gunnar Solka is reading the Berlin novel “Sechs Tage” (Six Days) for our initiative “Solidarität stimmt!”. The…

Our current audio series, part of the initiative “Solidarität stimmt!” that we founded, has been running for a week now. Voice artists are…

Together with voice artists, we have founded the initiative “Solidarität stimmt!” (Solidarity rings true!). Every day we give you a short…

Information for voice artists on the current coronavirus pandemic. We'd like to inform you about the measures we've already taken to protect…

Of course we couldn't let 2019 end without one more proper celebration with friends and companions! And that's what we did last Friday.…

The days are getting shorter, golden leaves cover the streets and temperatures are dropping. Before the autumn blues catch up with you,…

We are looking for a full-time senior project manager with experience in film and audio production to join our voice agency.

Cairo, Boston, Tallinn, Vienna, Bern, Hamburg and of course Berlin – in August speaker-search sounds more international and more varied than…

In the middle of summer there are 10 new voices at our agency. Today we're introducing them to you in our voice blog. So before you head off…

Summer is here! But there's no summer break for us: as on every first Friday of the month, we're introducing our new voice artists. Or to…

For our client Looping Group we handled the voice recording and sound mix for the image spots for the new Mercedes-Benz EQC. You can see –…

“Alles neu macht der Mai, macht die Seele frisch und frei. Laßt das Haus, kommt hinaus!” (May makes everything new, makes the soul fresh and…

Last Saturday the time had finally come. As part of our Loft-Kultur series, we opened our new exhibition with works by the artist Tobias…

Spring, sunshine, fresh voices! In April we expanded our German-speaking pool. We present six new voices in our database. They're well worth…

Games Week Berlin starts next Monday. In the run-up, the Bündnis 90/Die Grünen parliamentary group in the Berlin House of Representatives…

For one day, Emma and Jona got to know the job of a sound engineer. In our recording studio, our sound engineers Johanna Wienert and Fabian…

In future, the exhibitions in our Loft-Kultur series will be curated by the Berlin “Galerie Gesellschaft”, headed by Heike Saborowski. We…

The weather may leave a lot to be desired, but our selection of new voice artists that we'd like to introduce today certainly doesn't. We're…

Two weeks ago we introduced some of our new arrivals for February 2019. Today comes the second half, with equally outstanding voices.…

Before the Berlinale begins and all eyes turn to the festival, we'd like to introduce our new voices for February. There are 16 new voice…

The new year is only a few days old and we're already presenting new voice artists at our agency. Today a warm welcome goes out to France,…

Another year has flown by: for the last time in 2018 we're presenting our new voice artists. Have a listen and discover the voices of…

With what was probably the first Christmas party of the year, we not only rang in the Advent season but also looked back on a successful…

Japanese, Hungarian, English, Greek, Czech, Swedish. In November we have new voices in these languages in our database. A warm welcome to…

We are looking for freelancers to strengthen our recording studio team (recording engineer / sound designer), focusing on sound design for…

In cooperation with the vds (Association of German Voice Artists), Loft-Kultur is breaking new ground: gender roles and voice – stereotypes…

In October, too, we won over so many new voice artists for speaker-search that we had to split their introduction into two dates. Today we…

Two weekends in one week, but today is the real Friday – and the first of the month. Time for us to introduce our new voice artists: two…

The new Loft-Kultur season is under way. And right at the start, something familiar: “Schwarzes Terrain” (Black Terrain). With the…

Today we present the second part of our new voice artists for September. We're delighted to welcome well-known German dubbing actors and…

In our blog series “The little language lexicon”, today's topic is Ivrit – the Hebrew language. We'd like to tell you why, for many…

As always on the first Friday of the month, we're introducing the new voices at speaker-search. And because once again we just couldn't help…

This month we have a particularly large number of new voices in our database. So today it's round two of the introductions: including the…

In August we're delighted to welcome 16 new voice artists to our database. As usual, we're presenting the first eight today, on the first…

The start of the school holidays, summer vacation – but also the first Friday of the month: time to introduce our new voices for July.…

Of course we don't want to keep our new voice artists from you in June either. Open your ears and listen: no fewer than twelve wonderful…

Summer has begun! While many people have already packed their holiday things and are raring to go, we'd like to introduce our new voices for…

Today was Girls'Day 2018. Taking part again this year was a matter of course for us. Together with our sound engineer Fabian Lackas and…

Luxembourgish is a good example of how important a language can be for national identity. A Central German variety or a language in its own…

Girls'Day – Girls' Future Day – has been around since 2001. Back then there were 1,800 participants; last year more than 100,000 girls got a…

The weekend is just around the corner once again, and the sun is smiling at us through the windows. But before we say goodbye for this week,…

Yesterday the 16th gala of the German Audio Description Award took place at Kino International in Berlin. We were nominated in the…

Today is the “International Day of the French Language” – so of course it's a must for us to dedicate today's instalment of our blog series…

From the Roman Empire and the works of Giovanni Boccaccio, Pietro Bembo and Alessandro Manzoni to the “Italiano del Duemila”: in our series…

Despite what feels like minus 30 degrees, we're not hibernating – instead we've been out looking for new voice artists for our database for…

Since 15 February we've had reinforcement: Stefanie Tilgner is supporting us as project manager. The graduate translator has been working in…

On Saturday we opened our new exhibition “Schwarzes Terrain” (Black Terrain) by Berlin artist Marcus Fauser with a vernissage as part of our…

As on every first Friday of the month, today we're introducing our new voice artists. In February we're delighted to welcome great new…

On the last weekend in January, Sven Sauer and Bony Stoev publicly presented their installation “Kami” on the Neumarkt in front of the…

Today our language lexicon takes us to South-East Asia, to Vietnam. We introduce a language that has been little studied by linguists…

From 5 February 2018, as part of “Loft-Kultur”, we are showing an exhibition by Berlin artist Marcus Fauser. In his abstract paintings,…

In the new year, too, we've already won over new voices for our database. A warm welcome to our agency to Jelena, Patrick, Stefanie, Viola,…

The exhibition “Cognitive Shuffle” with works by Berlin artist Thomas Platt is on show at our premises until 19 January 2018 and can be…

“Leberwurst” (liver sausage), “Backenbart” (sideburns) and “Zeitnot” (time pressure) – what sounds very German at first also exists in…

speaker-search has been nominated for the German Audio Description Award 2018 for its audio description of Andres Veiel's documentary…

A Christmas edition of Loft-Kultur not only invited guests to the midissage of Thomas Platt's exhibition “Cognitive Shuffle”, but also…

In December, too, there are new voices at speaker-search. This month we've seen a big increase in German voice artists in particular, but…

Besides voice artists from Austria and Germany, this month we've also gained new voices in Chinese, English and Indonesian. We're delighted…

The Homeric epics, the dramas of Sophocles, the writings of Plato or the New Testament: Western culture has been profoundly shaped by Greek…

“Herzlich willkommen!”, “Welcome!”, “Hartelijk welkom!”, “Szeretettel üdvözöljük!” and “добре дошъл!” – a very international “welcome…

With a vernissage as part of our salon series “Loft-Kultur”, we opened the exhibition “Cognitive Shuffle” by Berlin artist Thomas Platt at…

On the first Friday of every month we introduce new voice artists at our agency. This month Emma Watson, Tom Cruise and SpongeBob are among…

Today our blog series “The little language lexicon” takes us to a mystical place of fire and ice just below the Arctic Circle, where a…

Leon Boden is the voice of one of the new TV spots for the Austrian online classifieds portal “willhaben.at”. The German dubbing voice of…

Today our blog series “The little language lexicon” is about the Czech language, which is spoken by a total of 13 million people. Yet this…

In our series “The little language lexicon”, today we introduce Maltese. The language of the island of Malta once developed from Maghrebi…

Even in August, during the holiday season, we've added new voices to our pool. In German, English, Portuguese and Finnish we now offer even…

Today in our series “The little language lexicon” we introduce a language that spread around the world in the 15th and 16th centuries and is…

In our series “The little language lexicon”, today we venture into a language area larger than Europe. Find out in our article why speakers…

In our series “The little language lexicon”, today we head far north and introduce the Finnish language. And to go with it, of course, there…

Today we're launching our new blog series “The little language lexicon”. Here we gather interesting facts about the languages represented at…

“Herzlich willkommen!”, “ברוכים הבאים”, “Welcome!” and “Bienvenue!” – in German, Hebrew, English and French we welcome our new voice artists…

One of the questions we're asked most often is: how do I become a dubbing artist? As simple as the question may sound at first, the answer…

In June, too, we're introducing our new voices, and this time we say “Herzlich willkommen!”, “Servus!”, “Grüezi!”, “Bienvenue!” and…

On 1 June 2017 our salon series “Loft-Kultur” got under way. At the premiere we welcomed around a hundred guests from media, culture,…

We're looking for the inspiring moment that goes beyond the normal everyday life of an office and recording studio, and we're creating a…

The start of a new blog series: on the first Friday of every month we'll introduce new voices in our database. You can read – and above all…

Finding the right voice is probably the most fundamental step towards a perfect voice recording. Our new blog series is all about exactly…

Barbara Fickert is blind. Even so, she's a regular at the cinema, experiencing the latest releases. In this interview she talks about her…

Our audio description for the film “24 Weeks” (24 Wochen) has been nominated for the German Audio Description Award, which will be presented…

We're pleased to introduce another new face at speaker-search. Like Julia, Alessandro has been strengthening our team since 15 January. He's…

Andres Veiel's documentary “Beuys” is competing for the Golden Bear at this year's Berlinale. speaker-search produced the audio description,…

Julia Eiler has been strengthening our team since 15 January 2017. She has begun her apprenticeship as an audiovisual media management…

We produced the radio spot for the new Flitz app. Everyone had so much fun recording with Mario that he took out his smartphone and simply…

A tidy house, a tidy mind – and if clients quickly fall for a voice because they find exactly what they're looking for, that's not bad…

As part of 48 Stunden Neukölln, Protokoll B is staging “Digital Digestion” on our agency premises, bringing the internet into the analogue…

speaker-search produced the voice recordings in German, English, Italian and French for Groupon's new TV spot. Here you can see the Italian…

Last Friday, together with around 300 voice artists, clients and friends, we officially inaugurated our new premises in Neukölln. At the…

A lot has happened here in recent months: our move has allowed us to expand, and we've built a completely new studio. Since we don't want to…

Over Easter we were in south-eastern Turkey to continue researching our documentary “Volunteers”, which is currently in development. Our…

On 15 March 2016 the 14th German Audio Description Award was presented at Kino International in Berlin. Audio-described versions of films…

Today we had the pleasure of recording Volker Brandt, the German dubbing voice of Michael Douglas, in our recording studio. Even after 10…

Together with cameraman Stefan Lehmann, our team is currently on Lesbos producing a short documentary about the refugee crisis. It focuses…

In our new premises we have set up a small studio for photo and film shoots, which we are constantly expanding. The latest addition is a…

This year, too, good!movies and AG Verleih hosted the “Independent Film Party” on the occasion of the 66th Berlin International Film…

The highlight of the Cinema for Peace Gala, held annually in Berlin, is the presentation of awards for feature films and documentaries…

For years we have been training apprentices as “audiovisual media management assistants” and “media designers for image and sound”. Our…

We've finally moved into our new agency and production premises. The factory loft in Neukölln's Schillerkiez offers 300 square metres of…

On 4 January 2016, after a long period of planning and construction, the time will finally have come: we're moving into our new production…

The current fee list for German voice artists (GDS 2015/2016) has introduced a layout session fee as a flat rate for the first time.…

In September we're offering new clients special introductory deals on audiobook production. We'd like to show you how, with more than 10…

From September, our new voice workshops with Richard Gonlag and Olaf Jelinski get under way. Over the past few months we have developed a…

After Yamaha provided us with a test version for the release of Nuendo 7, we have now put the latest version of the software into production…

The new version of our shortlist is online from today. You can now bookmark not only voice artists but also every individual voice sample,…