Klemens Koehring (German)

Klemens is a German actor whose charismatic mid-toned voice has been used in a wide range of media productions, both in his native language and in English.

One of his best known English-speaking voice-over roles is the title character in the award-winning darkly comedic computer game 'Ghost in the Sheet'. For this performance Klemens received praise from several computer game magazines including Just Adventure, GameBoomers and Gamers Universe. As an English-language narrator Klemens worked on such diverse projects as a multi-screen video animation event performed at the Royal Academy of Arts, a dance show in Singapore and several audiobooks featuring evocative and eerie stories by author Tim Jeffreys. His English voice also featured in the 'Dubai Shopping Festival' radio ad for Emirates.

Klemens is the German voice of the 'Duracell Ultra Power' television ads from 2010, the 'TomTom HD Traffic' radio ads from 2010 and a number of promos on the National Geographic Channel in Germany (since 2009).

Sports-related work is one of his specialties. He narrated the German versions of the fitness DVDs 'Trudie Styler Warrior Yoga', 'Trudie Styler Cardio Dance Flow', 'Trudie Styler Core Strength Pilates', '5 Day Fit Yoga' and 'Shape'. He is the regular commentator and provides the interviewee voice-overs for the German version of 'Mobil 1 The Grid', the weekly television motorsports magazine. He has done this for more than 50 episodes so far.

Klemens played the roles of Demetrius and Quince in the spoken text sections for the German version of 'Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream' Audio CD by Naxos. His German-language computer game work includes voicing Air Force Pilot Glenn Duncan in the action game 'IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey', the youthful narrator in the kids game 'Jambo Safari' and all characters in the award-winning strategy game 'Sorades'.

Klemens provided dubbing work for the original versions of the feature films 'Age of Heroes', 'Hanna', 'Shanghai' and 'The Relief of Belsen'.

His voice-over repertoire also includes German audio/multimedia guides for St. Paul's Cathedral, Culloden Battlefield Visitor Centre, Seawings Dubai and Juan Munoz Exhibition.

Originally from Hanover, Northern Germany, Klemens spent his formative years in such diverse places as Northern America, South East Asia and South East England! He trained extensively in the Michael Chekhov Technique and acted on stage at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.