Dirk Jasper
Dirk Jasper (born May 15, 1947 ; † September 6, 2011 ) was a German publicist , non-fiction author on the subject of film and the Internet, and a multimedia producer.
Active online since 1994, he was one of the pioneers in the areas of online publication and online journalism in Germany. He became known nationwide primarily for his numerous guides on everything to do with the Internet and his Dirk Jasper FilmLexikon .
Life
Education and professional activities
Dirk Jasper, born in 1947, completed an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk at EMI Electrola and studied business administration with a focus on marketing and IT at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences . After completing his training, Jasper worked in various professional areas, such as a contact at an advertising agency , editor-in-chief of specialist magazines , mail order booksellers , teacher at a private business school , lecturer, trainer for digital equipment and headed a computer training center.
Since 1994 Dirk Jasper has worked as a freelance journalist and multimedia producer. In addition, he held teaching assignments nationwide on the topics of Internet, multimedia, marketing and online PR , including at the Westphalian Wilhelms University , the German Employee Academy , the Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK) Koblenz and Simmern and at the Baden-Baden Film Academy. Württemberg and at the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) . He was also a long-time internet consultant for the German Book Trade Association , for whose regional associations he also designed seminars on the subject of new media .
Dirk Jasper was married and had one daughter. He lived and worked in Argenthal .
The Dirk Jasper FilmLexikon and other online projects
Jasper's most famous projects include the Dirk Jasper FilmLexikon (DJFL) . It developed from the Jasper Video Yearbook 1991/92 , which was published in 1991 by Heyne Verlag and shortly thereafter as a diskette version by Rossipaul Verlag . 1994 followed in Rossipaul publishing a revised edition as interactive film lexicon six Multimedia - CD-ROMs . In the same year it went online for the first time as part of the German Film Forum in Compuserve , where it could be reached until 1997 under “Go Jasper”. In 1996 the Dirk Jasper FilmLexikon was published in the BTXplus of Deutsche Telekom and in 1997 in GermanyNet on the freely accessible Internet , where it has been available under the independent domain www.djfl.de since 1998 . Jasper aimed to present a lexical presentation of all the feature films that were shown in German theaters . However, this project could not be implemented - mainly for financial reasons - and so the DJFL has not been updated daily since spring 2007, but only updated sporadically. According to Jasper, however, it contains almost all of the feature films that were released between mid-1994 and around spring 2007. One of the best-known authors is Ernst Corinth , who has written hundreds of film reviews for the DJFL . Parallel to the online film lexicon, Jasper's authors also worked out a film star lexicon between 1994 and 2006 . Both dictionaries contain numerous interviews with international actors and filmmakers.
In addition to the DJFL , Dirk Jasper is also the founder, publisher and editor-in-chief of the online family portal Familie-im-Web.de, which has existed since 1994, and of the regional magazine Mehr-Hunsrück.de, which was launched in 2006 as an “independent online newspaper ” .
Jasper published his online publications DJFL and Familie-im-Web.de through his Argenthal-based publishing house Kontor für Mediendienste GmbH and the regional magazine Mehr-Hunsrück.de through the GRM Gesellschaft für Regionale Medien UG, which operates under the same address.
Also present as a non-fiction author in printed form
Parallel to his early online activities, Dirk Jasper wrote several books on the subject of " Internet " and " World Wide Web ". Starting with Online - The Compendium. Introduction, Arbeitsbuch, Nachschlagewerk (1995), Online-Ratgeber (1996) and The current Econ-Online-Lexikon (1996) he presented the functionality and possible uses of these completely new offers to the general public at the time. He also dealt with the leading providers of online access at the time - AOL , Compuserve and T-Online - in his own books. Jasper wrote several guides on Internet surfing and research, as well as business models for the online world. The rapid growth of the World Wide Web is also reflected in his most successful book 10,000 Internet Addresses . Find faster, save costs. With over 400 topics (1999): The fourth edition, which came out in 2002, was already called 14,444 Internet addresses. More than 800 topics . His books can be classified as part of the advisory literature on the Internet, which was booming from the mid-1990s to around the turn of the millennium.
His PR -Ratgebern the go together with Dietrich Ratzke wrote So I'm in the press . Successful public relations work for small business owners , freelancers and self-employed (1999) and online PR . Press work with the Internet (2004).
Jasper also wrote biographies about Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon , both of which came out in 1998. He has also published in the Munich-te wi-Verlag as media combinations designed monographs about Elvis Presley , Marilyn Monroe , The Beatles and The Rolling Stones and "Multimedia Guide" to German beers and wines .
Dirk Jasper also worked as a columnist for specialist magazines such as Computer Bild , Buchhändler heute and Computer Zeitung . He has also published articles in the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger and the Kölnische Rundschau , in the Lübecker Nachrichten and in the Neue Rhein Zeitung, as well as in magazines including Bunte , Chip , Buchreport and BuchMarkt .
Honorary positions and memberships
Dirk Jasper has volunteered in various professional organizations. In 1997 he was one of the founding members of the voluntary self-regulation multimedia service provider (FSM) and was a member of its complaints committee from 1997 to 2002. Since 1997 Jasper has also been President of the Federal Association of Information Providers Online (BVIO). He was also a member of the examination committees of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IHK) Cologne (1984 to 1989) and, since 1999, of the Koblenz Chamber of Commerce . He was also a member of the German Union of Journalists (dju) .
In addition, he took on regional honorary positions. From 1998 to 2001 he headed the “Work, Economy, Social Working Group” in the Agenda 21 process in the Rhein-Hunsrück district . From 1996 to 2003 he was involved in the parent representatives of the Ausonius school center in Kirchberg and from 1999 to 2004 was a member of the school board committee of the Kirchberg community .
Awards
In the 2000 multimedia competition of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate , he made it to the final round. In 2003 he won the Edgar short story competition .
Fonts
- Jasper Video-Jahrbuch 1991/92 , Munich 1991 ( ISBN 3-453-04931-4 )
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Film lexicon (CD-ROM editions with video film excerpts) Munich 1994
- The most successful science fiction and horror films ( ISBN 3-87686-137-3 )
- The most exciting adventure films ( ISBN 3-87686-136-5 )
- The best action films ( ISBN 3-87686-135-7 )
- The heißesten erotic films ( ISBN 3-87686-121-7 )
- The most gripping thrillers and detective stories ( ISBN 3-87686-122-5 )
- The Most Beautiful Comedies ( ISBN 3-87686-134-9 )
- Exam preparation business administration - in programmed form , Wiesbaden 1995 (2nd, revised and extended edition Wiesbaden 1997, ISBN 3-409-29745-6 )
- Online - The Compendium. Introduction, workbook, reference work , Haar near Munich 1995 (with CD-ROM, ISBN 3-8272-5039-0 )
- Online guide , Munich and Vienna 1996 ( ISBN 3-446-18627-1 )
- AOL . Everything for a quick connection to AOL. Step by step to the first Connect with America Online. Save costs despite new fees. The most interesting addresses , Düsseldorf 1996 ( ISBN 3-8158-1235-6 )
- The current Econ-Online-Lexikon , Düsseldorf 1996 ( ISBN 3-612-28094-5 )
- JAVA , Düsseldorf 1996 ( ISBN 3-8158-1300-X )
- Everything about Online , Munich 1996 (with CD-ROM, ISBN 3-581-67078-X )
- Online surfing in Compuserve , Düsseldorf 1997 (with CD-ROM, ISBN 3-612-28120-8 )
- Das T-Online -Handbuch , Haar bei München 1997 (with CD-ROM, ISBN 3-8272-5342-X ; new editions with CD-ROM as T-Online-Handbuch , Munich and Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-446-18669- 7 and T-Online. How to master T-Online!, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-8272-5670-4 )
- AOL 3.0 , Düsseldorf 1997 ( ISBN 3-8158-1312-3 )
- Telephoning and faxing with ISDN , Munich and Vienna 1997 ( ISBN 3-932888-01-4 and ISBN 3-446-19238-7 )
- Search and find in the Internet , Düsseldorf 1997 ( ISBN 3-612-28138-0 ); New edition under the title Successful Search on the Internet. Online research made easy , Düsseldorf and Munich 1998 ( ISBN 3-612-28176-3 )
- The ECON lexicon telecommunications and online , Düsseldorf 1997 ( ISBN 3-612-26470-2 )
- Internet newsgroups . Search, tap, use, discuss , Düsseldorf 1997 (with CD-ROM, ISBN 3-612-28169-0 )
- How To Make Money On The Internet. Lucrative business ideas - opportunities and risks. With numerous addresses , Landsberg am Lech 1998 ( ISBN 3-478-72240-3 )
- The world of books on the Internet. Libraries, catalogs, providers , Munich 1998 ( ISBN 3-612-28177-1 )
- Bargain hunting on the internet. Free and inexpensive from A - Z , Landsberg am Lech 1998 ( ISBN 3-478-72370-1 )
- Leonardo DiCaprio : "It's a dream". The star from " Titanic " , Bergisch Gladbach 1998 ( ISBN 3-404-12866-4 )
- Matt Damon . The new superstar , Munich 1998 ( ISBN 3-426-61111-2 )
- together with Dietrich Ratzke : This is how I get into the press . Successful public relations work for small businesses, freelancers and self-employed , Landsberg am Lech 1999 ( ISBN 3-478-85100-9 )
- 10,000 internet addresses . Find faster, save costs. With over 400 topics , Haar bei München 1999 ( ISBN 3-8272-5453-1 ; 2nd, then three expanded new editions under the titles 11,111 Internet addresses. Find faster, save costs. More than 500 topics , Munich 1999, ISBN 3 -8272-5673-9 , Internet addresses . Find faster, save costs. More than 600 topics - well over 13500 web addresses , Munich 2001, ISBN 3-453-17338-4 , and 14,444 Internet addresses . More than 800 topics , Munich 2002 , ISBN 3-453-19809-3 )
- Internet surfing for professionals. How to save time and money online! , Munich 2000 ( ISBN 3-8272-5848-0 )
- Market private homepages . This is how my homepage really brings money , Munich 2001 (with CD-ROM, ISBN 3-8272-6010-8 )
- Online PR . Press work with the Internet , Göttingen 2004 ( ISBN 3-934424-47-3 )
Further publications (without a year) as media combinations in te-wi-Verlag, Munich:
- Stations - Elvis Presley 1935 - 1977. Monograph on an entertainer who changed the world ( ISBN 3-89362-663-8 )
- Stations - Marilyn Monroe 1926 - 1962. Monograph about a star who became a cult figure! ( ISBN 3-89362-665-4 )
- Stations - The Beatles 1962 - 1970. Monograph on a group that revolutionized the music world ( ISBN 3-89362-664-6 )
- Stations - The Rolling Stones . Monograph about a band that is already a legend in its lifetime. Monograph about the "hardest rock'n roll band in the world" ( ISBN 3-89362-667-0 )
- Dirk Jaspers Beer Journal Germany. Comprehensive multimedia guide about German beer etc. ( ISBN 3-89627-646-8 or ISBN 3-89362-646-8 )
- Dirk Jaspers Wine Journal Germany. Comprehensive multimedia guide about German wine etc. ( ISBN 3-89362-645-X )
Web links
- Dirk Jasper's website
- Dirk Jasper FilmLexikon ( Memento from September 26, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
- Short portrait (with photo) at www.pr-quadrat.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Obituary in the online mourning portal of the Rhein-Zeitung
- ↑ a b c d e f Dirk Jasper - honorary positions ( memorial from December 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive ); Retrieved January 22, 2011
- ↑ Dirk Jasper on the history ( memento of January 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) of his online film lexicon; Retrieved January 22, 2011
- ↑ Dirk Jasper FilmstarLexikon ( Memento from December 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ); Retrieved January 22, 2011
- ↑ Home page of Familie-im-Web.de
- ↑ Start page of Mehr-Hunsrück.de
- ↑ Entry ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at www.mediadaten-online.com, Josef Jasper is listed as managing director; Retrieved January 22, 2011
- ↑ Entry ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at www.mediadaten-online.com; Retrieved January 22, 2011
- ↑ Web presence of the Federal Association of Information Providers Online ( Memento of the original from November 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Statement by Dirk Jasper ( Memento from February 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ); Retrieved January 22, 2011
- ↑ Dirk Jasper - Awards ( Memento from December 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive ); Retrieved January 22, 2011
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Jasper, Dirk |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German publicist, non-fiction author and multimedia producer |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 15, 1947 |
DATE OF DEATH | September 6, 2011 |