Bern Media Awards 2010: Jury honors three media professionals - and indirectly Jacques Chessex
This year, the Bern Foundation for Radio and Television is awarding its top prize to television journalist Meili Dschen. She is being honored for a report on the 1942 murder of Arthur Bloch, a Jewish cattle dealer from Bern, in Payerne.
Dschen documented a dark chapter in Vaud's history with her contribution, which was broadcast on Swiss television's "Kulturplatz" program, the foundation announced on Wednesday. Dschen's contribution was prompted by the novel "Un Juif pour l'exemple" by the well-known French-speaking Swiss author Jacques Chessex, who collapsed dead during a reading in Yverdon last October.Chessex's novel made an important contribution to understanding between the Romands and German-speaking Swiss, the foundation wrote in a statement on Wednesday. It is therefore also honoring him "indirectly and posthumously".
One of the aims of the Swiss Media Prize is to promote understanding between the two language regions. The prize is also awarded to radio and television programs that deal with topics from the cantons of Bern, Fribourg and Valais in a particularly high quality. The 2010 radio prize goes to Hans-Peter von Peschke for a programme on the subject of stroke, while Peter Maurer receives the prize for the best daily news report for a report from an EPP event in Grosshöchstetten shortly before the vote on the minaret ban.
One of the aims of the Swiss Media Prize is to promote understanding between the two language regions. The prize is also awarded to radio and television programs that deal with topics from the cantons of Bern, Fribourg and Valais in a particularly high quality. The 2010 radio prize goes to Hans-Peter von Peschke for a programme on the subject of stroke, while Peter Maurer receives the prize for the best daily news report for a report from an EPP event in Grosshöchstetten shortly before the vote on the minaret ban.
