Abstract
eptember 2006 will see the First Academic Conference devoted to the life and work of filmmaker Edgar G. Ulmer – taking place in Olomouc, the city where he was born. This event is sponsored and supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Jewish Museum Prague, and the Goethe-Institute Prague. Speakers include Ulmer's daughter Arianné Ulmer-Cipes; Sharon Pucker Rivo, Executive Director of The National Center for Jewish Film; Michael Palm, director of the noted documentary Edgar G. Ulmer – The Man Off-Screen; and Stefan Grissemann, author of the only Ulmer monograph on Ulmer, Mann im Schatten: Der Filmemacher Edgar G. Ulmer. A critical appreciation of Ulmer is so far still missing – this conference aims at filling that gap. In addition, this event wants to regard itself as a ‘starting signal’ for a bi-annual Ulmerfest in Olomouc.