Jens Oliver Zimmermann (born 6 August 1972 in Freudenstadt, West 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

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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,

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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.

References

External links

Jens Zimmermann's Official Website

* [http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.stz-interview-mit-jens-zimmermann-die-kickers-sind-mehr-als-ein-unternehmen.cb0c2284-7bbe-4cda-8d43-963bd52995e6.html/ Interview with Jens Zimmermann by Stuttgarter Zeitung Newspaper (in German)] {{DEFAULTSORT:Zimmermann, Jens 1972 births Living people Sportspeople from Stuttgart Public address announcers German sports broadcasters Radio and television announcers German sports agents German sports businesspeople Sports commentators Gymnastics broadcasters Olympic Games broadcasters Skiing announcers