Ober-Gerwern Master Prize awarded for the first time
For the first time, the "Ober-Gerwern Master's Prize", endowed with 20,000 francs, has been awarded to students of the Bern University of the Arts HKB. It was won by a thesis on the conservation and restoration of music roll paper.
The prize is awarded for one or more outstanding Master's theses submitted to Bern University of the Arts (HKB). From 14 candidates whose Master's theses were awarded a grade above 5.5, a jury of representatives from society and the HKB selected five theses for the first time that were shortlisted as worthy of the award.
Finally, the prize was awarded to Yasmine Sarah Kerber, Master of Arts in Conservation-Restoration, for her outstanding thesis on "Perforated music roll papers as sound information carriers of mechanical musical instruments - conservation and restoration".
The work is characterized by a very careful, exemplary execution in terms of content and form, writes the company. The Master's project combines interdisciplinary aspects of interpretation research with the core area of technological indexing and conservation research on the music rolls and their special papers.
The Ober-Gerwern Society is one of the 13 Bernese guilds and societies. It is a society of the Burgergemeinde Bern that emerged from the Gerberzunft.
