Jakob works on several filmsets in various positions until he becomes an assistant director. Studies at “New York Film Academy”, “Filmschool Hamburg - Berlin” and “German Film and Television Academy Berlin” as a guest student follow. In addition to his film education he studies political science at the “Fernuniverista?t Hagen”.
In 2008 he completes his film directing studies at the “Centre d’Estudis Cinematogra?fics de Catalunya” in Barcelona and comes back to Berlin to start together with his brother and a partner the film production company Weydemann Bros.