2022/09/04: Ursula-Schneider-Price 2022 for HFBK-Graduates
HFBK graduates Rahel Grote Lambers and Kervin SaintPere have been awarded the Ursula Schneider Prize 2022. The Freunde des Hamburger Museums der Arbeit (FdMA) offered the prize for student theses that deal with the history, present and future of the world of work. Rahel Grote Lambers received the 1st prize of 1000 euros for her bachelor thesis under Prof. Simon Denny and Prof. Dr. Astrid Mania, which consists of the written work On Golden Days and Phantom Homelands and the installations Longing for Belonging and Heimattreu. In it, Rahel Grote Lambers addresses destructive tendencies of nostalgic narratives and reactionary homeland fantasies in social media that are instrumentalized by the so-called new right. Kervin Saint Pere (Master with Prof. Michaela Melián, Prof. Dr. Nora Sternfeld) receives the 2nd prize of 1,500 euros in the Master's Thesis category. His installation Die Stadt Hamburg und das Nachleben des Kolonialismus (The City of Hamburg and the Afterlife of Colonialism) explores the colonial structures inscribed in the cityscape and actively puts them up for discussion in an action space. The award ceremony will take place on September 26 2022 at the Museum der Arbeit in Hamburg.