The conference participants will address the topic “Text and Film in Interaction” from different aspects. One area of emphasis will be the early stages of Japanese film and the associated theoretical discussions with this new medium that developed at the beginning of the 20th century in parallel with film in the West. One section of the conference will be devoted to the famous writer Tanizaki Jun´ichirō (1886–1965), as he is a particularly illustrative example of how intensively writers grappled with the medium of film from the very beginning. Other areas of emphasis will be the various media-related possibilities for expression of film and literature and the processes and adaptation strategies that play a role in any film adaptation of literature. Gender perspectives in film will be addressed, in particular under the theme “Woman’s Literary Cinema.”