Kathrin Kana

What was the first audiobook you performed?

Hitler Youth by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

What title or series are you best known for?

Nuclear Dawn (German Edition) by Kyla Stone

If a listener wanted to get to know your work, which of your audiobooks would you point them to?

World Pacific by Peter Mann
Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
A Dangerous Balancing Act by Marga Grünberg
Nuclear Dawn (German Edition) by Kyla Stone

What do you always have in the booth?

Water, lozenges, throat spray, glasses, iPad, vision board, motivational quotes, air purifier, color lights for mood

How did you come to performing audiobooks?

I was approached by a producer in NYC, because he needed someone who was a good reader and could pronounce German words correctly. I had been doing bilingual voiceovers at the time and that’s how he found my name. We recorded the book in a day and a half and it won my first Audiofile Earphones Award.

Anything else you’d like a listener to know?

When I was a kid in Germany, I used to sit at my great-grandmother’s feet and listen to fairy tale LP records on her massive wooden entertainment unit. We snacked on her favorite white and pink chocolate mints. Never in a million years did I imagine I would narrate books myself many moons later…