Rainer Hasters
Rainer Hasters (born April 1947 in Marburg an der Lahn ) is a German business journalist .
Life
After graduating from high school at the Philippinum humanistic grammar school in Marburg an der Lahn in 1967, Rainer Hasters first studied economics and journalism at the Free University of Berlin . After a traineeship at the Sender Freies Berlin (SFB), the business graduate worked from 1977 as a permanent editor in the economics department for the SFB's radio program. Hasters was best known for his contributions to the daily program Wirtschaft, which was interspersed with the midday magazine , in which he explained important economic terms and provided background information on current economic developments in just under three minutes. Another focus was on Hasters' daily consumer tip show as part of the morning magazine.
From 1980 to 1985, Rainer Hasters worked for the Konrad Adenauer Foundation as a media representative for Southeast Asia and headed the communication centers for development aid in Manila in the Philippines and in the Indonesian capital Jakarta . The focus was on consumer information and life support for the population. As part of the so-called Development Communication, the DevCom centers Communication Foundation for Asia (CFA-Manila) and Sanggar Prathivi Jakarta tried to use all forms of media to provide the population with important information and advice on how to improve their economic situation. At the same time, a few years before the fall of the Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos, close cooperation was established with the opposition party PDP-Laban , which the Philippine President Corazon Aquino supported.
Mid-80s moved Rainer Hasters returned to Germany and again worked as a staff business editor, this time for the program group Economy and Transport of the WDR in Cologne. Hasters' formats were the daily and popular consumer program Quintessenz in the afternoon program of WDR 2 as well as his program contributions for the morning news magazine A Jour with the latest reports and background reports from politics and business.
Then, from 1988, Rainer Hasters lived with his family in Kingston , Jamaica . There he represented the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in the English-speaking Caribbean and worked in the area of their development aid programs. The background to the commitment of the German political foundations in the Caribbean were numerous attempts by communist parties to overthrow, for example on the islands of Grenada and Dominica . Projects such as the Jamaican Institute for Political Education (JIPE), the Eastern Caribbean Institute for Democracy (ECID) and the Caribbean Youth Conference (CYC) formed an important foundation for the strengthened development of democratic structures in the English-speaking Caribbean.
When the RIAS Berlin Commission was founded in 1992 on the basis of the German-American government agreement, Rainer Hasters was appointed administrative director. Since then, well over a thousand German and American journalists have taken part in the information programs of the RIAS Berlin Commission.
Since leaving at the end of 2016, Rainer Hasters has been working as a freelance journalist and communications consultant.
Awards
For his services to transatlantic understanding and friendship in broadcasting , Rainer Hasters was the first non-American recipient to receive the Col. Barney Oldfield Distinguished Service Award 2006 from the US Radio and Television News Directors Foundation .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Media Symposium ( Memento from June 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (English), accessed on October 22, 2018
- ^ Barney Oldfield Distinguished Service Award , accessed October 22, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hasters, Rainer |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Marburg on the Lahn |