Jens Zimmermann (host)
Jens Zimmermann | |
---|---|
Born | Jens Oliver Zimmermann August 6, 1972 |
Sports commentary career | |
Genre(s) | live commentary, hosting, on-site hosting |
Sport(s) | football, handball, gymnastics, wrestling, ski jumping, nordic combined, biathlon, cross country |
Website | www |
Jens Oliver Zimmermann (born 6 August 1972 in Freudenstadt, Germany) is a German sport announcer, moderator and athletes manager. He had started his career as a press speaker of popular German football team Stuttgarter Kickers. Nowadays he executes announcing of sport competitions in Germany as well as abroad. Jens Zimmermann is the first and only German announcer, who featured 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games and 2014 Sochi Olympic Games.[1]
Life and career
Early career
Starting his career in 1997 as a press speaker of Stuttgarter Kickers, he developed his career to Managing Director at the same football club, where he held this position from 2009 until 2011. In 2011 he ran self-founded company "Marketing-Moderation Zimmermann", where he officially started the field of athlete management. In 2014, among the expansion of business, the new agency "24passion" is created. "24passion" executes the full-cycle Sport Production (audio-/visual support of the sport events), athlete management (Marcel Nguyen, Frank Stäbler, Anna Seidel, Johannes Rydzek, Manuel Faisst, Andreas Toba, Elisabeth Seitz, Sebastian Bradatsch, Luis Brethauer, Daniel Bohnacker, Aline Focken and the German handball players Felix Koenig and Marcel Schiller) and marketing solutions for business.[2]
Overall experience
As the announcer Jens Zimmermann has announced more than 500 events overall in German as well as in English languages. His professional career includes sport world's top competitions like Olympic Games, Four Hills Tournament in Oberstdorf, Nordic Ski World Championships, Handball World Championships 2007, Mercedes-Benz Junior Football Cup (annually since 2001) and more than 60 handball games of German League.[3]