Martin Koerber is head of Audiovisual Heritage – Film at Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek in Berlin, and professor for restoration of Audiovisual Media at Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft in the same city. After studies in Media, Art History, and Musicology he dabbled in filmmaking in the 1980s, and from 1986 worked for Deutsche Kinemathek, Nederlands Filmmuseum and other Film Archives as freelancer, followed by a permament position at Deutsche Kinemathek 1999 - 2003, and again since 2007. Since 1988 he was involved in numerous film restoration projects.