USC Annenberg graduate Daniela Gerson (M.A. Specialized Journalism '09, pictured) received a first-prize RIAS Berlin Commission radio award on June 12 for her feature Too Many Geister (Too Many Ghosts), which she co-produced with Wibke Bergemann.
The RIAS Berling Commission — founded in 1992 in recognition of the merits of RIAS Berlin as a “free voice of the free world” from 1946 to 1993 — is a bi-national organization for the promotion of German-American understanding in the field of broadcasting.
The committee wrote in its award statement: "Daniela Gerson, granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, comes to Germany to do research on immigration issues. But in Berlin, the 28-year-old Jewish New Yorker finds herself engulfed in the past. Meeting the former Neo-Nazi living next door is only the beginning. This moving story shows how the past colors the present. It is a unique and fresh look at issues of enduring importance. Personal and engaging in style, the report makes particularly good use of sound."
The one-hour German-language radio feature was initially broadcast on Deutschlandradio Kultur in 2008.
