Ossi Urchs

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Oswald Hans "Ossi" Urchs (born August 16, 1954 in Cologne , † September 25, 2014 in Offenbach am Main ) was a German media entrepreneur , non-fiction author and television presenter . In the media he was considered an internet pioneer and expert.

Life

Urchs was born in Cologne in 1954 and had his first media experience in his youth as a child spokesperson for Westdeutscher Rundfunk , where he trained as an assistant director . From 1973 to 1979 he studied philosophy , theater studies and political science in Cologne and Munich and completed his studies with an MA . Since 1980 he has worked as a freelance writer and director in entertainment, feature and reportage as well as for children and youth programs , including productions for various broadcasters on ARD, ZDF, RTL, Sat.1 and K-ABC ( Los Angeles ).

From 1982 he ran the media agency FFT with his wife Sigi Höhle, where his focus was on developing Internet strategies for companies. In 1993, Urchs became known to a wider public as the "Minister for Tomorrow" through an advertising campaign by a cigarette manufacturer.

As early as 1997/98, Urchs was on television for the news channel n-tv and the magazine NetNews . From 1999 to 2001 he hosted the program “eTalk” from Cebit together with Tim Cole , initially for n-tv, later for N24 . He also appeared in the media (u. A. Tagesschau , ZDF , WDR 5 , Phoenix round to Phoenix , Germany radio , Manager Magazin , Tagesspiegel , heise.de and Net-Investor ) and at events between industry and universities ( Pforzheim University , University of Passau ) as Expert on the internet and social media.

In 2009 he was the moderator of the event Social Media - The Influence of Consumers on Brand Management at the German Multimedia Congress of the Federal Association of the Digital Economy . In 2010 he was the opening speaker at the PR Day of the Public Relations Association Austria and in 2011 at the Congress of German Market Research of the Professional Association of German Market and Social Researchers .

Ossi Urchs was on the advisory board and on the jury of the Best of Social Media Awards as well as on the jury of the Success for Future Awards . Urchs was also a lecturer in the music business department at the Popakademie Baden-Württemberg .

Already suffering from cancer , Urchs published his last non-fiction book in 2013, written together with Tim Cole : Digital Enlightenment: Why the Internet Makes Us Smarter.

He died on September 25, 2014 as a result of a cancer diagnosed in January 2013 in a hospice in Offenbach.

reception

In an obituary , heise online describes Urchs “despite all his fascination with technology” as a “deeply” spiritual person who liked to wear the Internet guru label and who traveled a lot through India . He told the Frankfurter Rundschau : "Guru means teacher in Sanskrit and I think it's good to impart knowledge". With his dreadlocks and “the long beard, Ossi Urchs was not only a visual enrichment for every suit wearer event. He always had something to say and it was worth listening to. "

The Rheinische Post calls Urchs a "part of the societal awakening of the 68ers " as well as an " early user " who analytically dealt with the medium very early on. “When the computer moved into private households, Urchs became an intermediary, explaining how to deal with PCs and online media in television programs and in Playboy magazine .” He was one of the first to say - according to his wife - “that that Internet will change our entire way of living, working and learning "and was still considered a weirdo with such predictions at the end of the 1980s." His "trademark was his Jatta , his long hairstyle adopted from India."

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Frank Patalong: The friendly and funky pioneer of the digital. Obituary on Spiegel Online from September 25, 2014 (accessed September 25, 2014).
  2. ↑ a b Advisory board and jury of the Best of Social Media Awards 2012. on: socialmediaeconomy.de
  3. ↑ Biography of Ossi Urch from the FFT media agency, accessed on September 26, 2014
  4. ↑ Alexander Smoltczyk: Return from the morning , published in: Der Spiegel 21/2001 of May 21, 2001.
  5. ↑ Hannes Koch: I am a real person , taz.de, taz am weekend, May 15, 1993, p. 34
  6. ↑ Social Media - The influence of the consumer on brand management  ( 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. PDF file, p. 15.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.companion.de  
  7. ^ PR Day 2010: The actors ( memento from February 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Public Relations Association Austria
  8. ↑ BVM inbrief April 2011, p. 30. PDF file, p. 13.
  9. ^ Jury of the Success for Future Awards ( Memento from June 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ^ Popakademie, music business department: lecturers
  11. ↑ a b Internet guru Ossi Urchs is dead , RP Online from September 25, 2014
  12. ↑ Internet pioneer Ossi Urchs is dead , süddeutsche.de from September 25, 2014
  13. ↑ Minister for Tomorrow: Ossi Urchs has died , heise online from September 25, 2014
  14. ↑ List of literature ( memento of August 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on the lecture by Werner Rüther: Cyber-Kriminalität. A challenge also for criminology at the 4th European Police Congress in Bonn (May 22, 2001)
personal data
SURNAME Urchs, Ossi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Urchs, Oswald Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German media entrepreneur, non-fiction author and television presenter
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 2014
Place of death Offenbach am Main