Background
Jaspars was born in Gronsveld, and studied at the Filmacademie in Amsterdam.
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Jaspars was born in Gronsveld, and studied at the Filmacademie in Amsterdam.
After he left the television and film industry he started a career as a business manitoba 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. Inventions After his television career he was active as a business man selling inventions, developing a storage system (with Samuel Meyering), the Rolykit, which made him almost a millionaire.
Working with a collective of inventors they had made a revolutionary caster, but he was unable to bring it to market since he could not get it patented.
Nature and radio As he got older, he become more and more interested in making nature his profession. A lifelong lover of nature and an avid walker, at age 50 he turned himself into a storyteller, making radio shows for the VPRO about his fascination with nature and his youth in Limburg.
He is praised for his narrative talent and poetic style, displayed also in the 1992-1993 eight-part series Ontmoetingen in de natuur in which Jaspars recounted episodes from his childhood, followed by an eight-part series in 1994, Gied Jaspars vertelt. He spoke at length on his passion for the outdoors and his love of Dutch landscape in an interview with Frank Flippo in the walkers magazine Te Voet six months before he died.
The collection Mijmeringen anthologizes some of his best radio narrations done for the VPRO and the Vereeniging van Arbeiders Radio Amateurs. Jaspars died of bowel cancer, at age 56.