Bernard Schaer
Las Vegas, USA / Köln, Germany, United States
Highlights
Bernard Schaer is a German native voice-over professional. He resides primarily in the US and spends about 2-3 months a year in Germany to visit family, work with clients and to keep up on his coaching classes. He is equally comfortable with German and English scripts. Clients like to book Bernard for bilingual projects because of his excellent English. His voice qualities are: warm, confident, smooth and rich. His voice can bring authority to a project.
Bernard's voice is available for:
- radio/TV commercials,
- technical or industrial training narration and power point narrations,
- e-learning projects,
- on-hold phone messages,
- voice mail navigation,
- imaging liners and promos for radio/TV stations,
movie trailers,
- voice prompts for web/program navigation and
podcasting.
Languages
German, English, English (North American)
Accents
German, English
Ages
Middle Aged, Senior
Special Skills
Movie Trailers, Documentaries, Business, Educational, Radio, Telephone, Videogames, Podcasting, Television, Internet
Experience
During his career as voiceover professional Bernard has worked for:
American Express - German (multiple eLearning projects)
Bayer CropScience - English (business theater narration)
BayWa Baustoffe - German (several radio campaigns)
City of Warsaw - German (image film)
Dell - German (National TV commercial)
DOW Industries - German (eLearning)
Henkel EMEA & CEE - German
HILTI - German (eLearning)
JTI – German/English (business theater narration)
Phoenix Contact – English (business theater narration)
Microsoft Office Live Team - German (IVR)
Siemens/GSI - German (several eLearning projects
Tetra Pak – German (eLearning)
Tyco Electronics - English
Credentials
Education
Theater:
Stadttheater (city theater) Bielefeld, Germany
Abbey Theater, Durango, CO
Voice Training:
David Goldberg/Joan Franzino - Edge Studio, New York
Charles Michel - The Winning Voice, New York
Susan Berkley - The Great Voice Company, New Jersey
Wren Ross, Boston, MA
Tom Richards, Wilmington, DE
Andreas Sparberg, Berlin, Germany
Bob Corff, Los Angeles, CA
Nancy Wolfson / Jeff Freeman, Los Angeles, CA
Susanne Haeberlein, Cologne, Germany
Singing (ongoing):
Joe Cooney - New Mexico Highlands University
Voiceover workshops on a regular basis.
Studio
Microphone
Neumann TLM 103, Rode NTK, Audix CX111
Computer & Software
MacBook Pro, iMac, Protools 8.0 LE
Special Equipment
Mbox Pro, Source-Connect 3.0
Delivery Methods
Email, FTP, MP3, AIFF, WAV
Turnaround Time
within your deadline
Service Description
Bernard Schaer is a native German voice-over professional. He resides primarily in the US and spends about 2-3 months a year in Germany to visit family and to keep up on his coaching classes. He is equally comfortable with German and English scripts.
Clients like to book Bernard for bilingual projects because of his excellent, nearly accent free English.
His voice qualities are: warm, confident, smooth and rich. His voice can bring authority to a project.
Bernard has been busy lending his “Standard German” and "Mid-Atlantic English" to a wide cross-section of industries, including global companies like Henkel EMEA & CEE, Microsoft Office Live Team, Phoenix Contact, Siemens/GSI, Tetra Pak and Tyco Electronics.
Testimonials
MindBuilder Group, Inc.
“Bernard did excellent work for us when we had a course translated into German and needed a voiceover talent to read the course. Our German counterparts were very happy with the results.”
- Mark Challenger
TeleHold
"Bernard is a detail oriented voice over talent and translator who is professional and friendly to work with. He provides an excellent, high-quality product at a reasonable cost, with on-time delivery for his clients." Hired James as a foreign voice over talent and coordinator for complex telephony project involving native German, French, Italian translation and professional IVR Audio Applications in 2008. “I had to pleasure of working with Bernard on several projects over the past few years and I found him to be extremely knowledgeable, easy to work with and possessing a great knack for analyzing and determining how best to achieve our goals. I look forward to working with him more in the future."
- Jim Liniger
Voice Talent Productions
“Bernard is a superb voiceover talent on the Voice Talent Productions roster and a preferred voice, especially for foreign clients. He consistently proves himself to be an asset to the company with his fantastic delivery and professional demeanor. I would not hesitate to recommend him to anyone looking for professional caliber voice talent.”
- Erik Sheppard
Boffin Language Group
“It's been such a delight to work with Bernard. His work is simply perfect! He offers more than just recording - the revisions he made to the script makes it easier for the audience to follow the conversation. The recording is very clear and easy to understand - He speaks reasonably slowly, and follow perfectly the intonation hints. Very well done!”
- Wang Bowen
Client List
American Express - German (multiple eLearning projects)Bayer CropScience - English (business theater narration)
BayWa Baustoffe - German (several radio campaigns)
City of Warsaw, Poland - German (image film)
Dell - German (TV commercial)
DOW Industries - German (eLearning)
Fujitsu - German (eLearning)
Henkel EMEA & CEE - German
HILTI - German (eLearning)
Japan Tobacco International – German/English (business theater narration)
Microsoft Office Live Team - German (IVR)
Phoenix Contact – English (business theater narration)
SAP - German (eLearning)
Siemens/GSI - German (several eLearning projects
Tetra Pak – German (eLearning)
Tyco Electronics - English
Payment Terms
Hire Bernard for voice over work. Payment is made through Voices.com SurePay, an escrow service that guarantees your work is done to your satisfaction. Send payment securely by Visa, Mastercard or PayPal through Voices.com then download your files from the website.
