Gied Jaspars

Gied Jaspars (6 July 1939 – 14 February 1996) was a Dutch television maker who gained prominence in the 1960s and 1970s making progressive and controversial TV shows for the VPRO; he is well known for his collaboration with writer and director Wim T. Schippers. After he left the television and film industry he started a career as a business man; throughout his career he had a great interest in nature, expressed in narrative, meditative reflections in television and radio series which were later bundled as a single collection.

Jaspars was born in Gronsveld, and studied at the Filmacademie in Amsterdam. In 1964 he was the founder, with Nicolai van der Heyde and Pim de la Parra, of the movie magazine Skoop. His career as a television producer took off in 1967 when he was part of the team (with Wim T. Schippers) that made the groundbreaking show Hoepla for the VPRO, possibly the most controversial TV program of the 1960s and the first program to have a completely naked woman (Phil Bloom) on television, even leading to questions being asked in parliament. Jaspars went on to collaborate with Schippers (who referred to Jaspars as his "soundboard"), Wim van der Linden, and Ruud van Hemert on other shows, including De Fred Hachéshow (1972),Barend is weer bezig (1972-1973), and Het is weer zo laat! (1978), and he produced the Schippers play Going to the Dogs (1986). He also produced popular programs such as the BB-kwis (with Berend Boudewijn), Sonja's goed nieuwsshow (with Sonja Barend), and Waar gebeurd (in which people were allowed to tell the craziest stores, made with Paul Haenen). For VPRO radio he directed, in 1981, a show dedicated to a "shameful night of love", in which radio hosts talked to listeners about their love lives; in between, Jaspars read passages from Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther. In 1981-1982 he produced and narrated a series of segments that closed the day's shows, in collaboration with the nature preservation society Natuurmonumenten. In 1984 he produced Een dagje naar het strand van Theo van Gogh.

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