Jakob Claussen

Born in Frankfurt am Main in 1961, he followed up his secondary education and leaving exam with various apprenticeships at film production companies and trained as industrial manager at the Henkel KGA. After a number of different tasks as location manager, he was definitively drawn to the film branch, and studied at the Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film (HFF) in Munich from 1986-89 in the department of feature films and TV films. He then spent two years as line producer at the HFF München in Department III, in which he also oversaw the development, financing, production, distribution and sales of short films and of several full-length TV films, along with various special projects as well.
In 1992 he and Thomas Wöbke founded the Claussen+Wöbke Filmproduktion GmbH. He has since been producing feature films.

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