Klemens has been nominated in the Outstanding Narration – TV or Film – Best Voiceover category at the Voice Arts Awards (taking place in Hollywood in December 2024) for his work on the critically acclaimed documentary The Commandant's Shadow. The Voice Arts Awards are hosted annually by the Society of Voice Arts and Sciences (SOVAS) and have been described as the Oscars of the voiceover industry and as the most prestigious and significant award in the world of voice acting.
The Commandant's Shadow, in which Klemens provided the voiceover narration of the commandant (Rudolf Höss), has been shown in more than a thousand cinemas across the United States, Canada, Germany, Israel, the UK and Ireland since May 2024 (including across major metropolitan areas in the U.S.). It is streaming in the U.S. on HBO/Max and in the UK on Sky Documentaries.
In the summer of 2024 Klemens was one of the main station imaging voices on the world's biggest sports radio station, UK-based talkSPORT, bringing some German flavour to their coverage of the Euro 2024 football tournament!
The 11-part epic historical audio drama series Unsinkable launched on Amazon's Wondery in July 2024. You can hear Klemens as various German submarine and ship officer and sailor characters in several episodes alongside a stellar cast including John Malkovich, Brian Cox, Thomas Brodie-Sangster and Nathalie Emmanuel.
Klemens Koehring is an established German-British actor, who has been working professionally across voiceover, screen and stage since the mid-2000s. He is based in London and his recent accolades include winning "Best Male Television Documentary Performance" at the One Voice Awards 2019, being nominated for "Best Male Gaming Performance" at the One Voice Awards 2019 and 2021, being nominated for "Male Voiceover Artist of the Year" at the One Voice Awards 2019, and being nominated for "Best Character Performance" at the VOX Awards 2019 and 2021.
With a penchant for history and bilingual language skills in English and German, Klemens is often seen and heard in historical and period drama roles and has portrayed such diverse historical characters as Sigmund Freud, Gerrard Winstanley, Benjamin Disraeli, Alfred Tennyson, Isaac Newton, Walter Raleigh, Richard Cobden, John Pym, Richard Price, Gottlob Bidermann, Karl Mauch, and August Gissler.
Klemens has lived in Germany (where he grew up), the United States, Singapore, and the United Kingdom (where he has been based for the majority of the past 21 years). After graduating from the University of Bedfordshire with a BA Honours First Class in Media Performance, he went on to train in the Michael Chekhov Technique with Graham Dixon and Sarah Kane at the Michael Chekhov Studio London and obtained a Diploma in Voice-Overs from the London Academy of Media, Film & TV. He also undertook training in acting and voice in London and Singapore with such renowned coaches as Dave Fennoy, Dian Perry, Yvonne Morley, Stephane Cornicard, and Terence Crawford. He received presenter coaching from Brian Naylor at the TV Training Academy at Pinewood Studios, accent tuition with Sarah Shepherd, and training in performance/motion capture with The Mocap Academy and the Mocap Vaults.
