Jens was born in East-Germany. He left his home town Gera in 1984 and moved to Mainz. After studying law he came to Cape Town in 1993 for a holiday – and stayed. He started Cape Studies in 1995.
In 2005 he adopted Nicholas right from birth. The love of his life he says … Since 2021 Nicholas has slowly started taking over with new fresh marketing ideas. Jens always talks about the starting days of Cape Studies – when the fax machine was a new thing – Nicholas adds modern days marketing tools to the success of Cape Studies