Herbert Gantschacher has been performed for the first time at Terezin on 23 May 1995. From these first performances at Terezin ever a live recording exists done by ARBOS – Company for Music and Theatre. In all, Ullmann worked on the opera for 27 years, from the first impressions in the First World War in 1917 to the finalization at Terezin in 1944. The most concrete formulation of this discourse occurs in the Emperor of Atlantis, with the parable of the Emperor's game with Death for Life. The "game", which concerns the Emperor's plan for the total destruction of all human life, ends with the ruin of the Emperor and with the vision of a new understanding between life and death. When Ullmann was deported to Auschwitz, he left his works in the safekeeping of the philosopher Emil Utitz. After the war, Utitz gave them to H. G. Adler in Theresienstadt in 1945, and Adler brought the scores to England in 1947. Adler subsequently placed them on long-term loan with the Allgemeine Anthroposophische Gesellschaft in Dornach (AAG), Switzerland. In an apparent breach of contract the AAG subsequently deposited them with the Paul Sacher Stiftung, Basle, where they are currently being held illegally, prior to the preparation of a legally valid loan agreement. Chronology 1898 Born in Teschen (in Austrian Silesia) on 1 January 1909–16 Attended school in Vienna 1916–18 Military service as a volunteer; service at the Front; promotion to Lieutenant 1918 Attended the University of Vienna, studying law and attending lectures in sociology and philosophy of Wilhelm Jerusalem and attending Arnold Schönberg's "composition seminar" 1920 autumn: Choirmaster and co-repetiteur under Alexander von Zemlinsky in the New German Theatre in Prague; later (1922–27) conductor 1925 Composition of the "Schönberg Variations" for piano (first performance 1926 in Prague) 1927–1928 Director of Opera in Aussig an der Elbe (Ústí nad Labem); afterwards back in Prague without a position 1929 Success of the "Schönberg Variations" at the music festival of the International Society for New Music (Internationale Gesellschaft für Neue Musik; IGNM) in Geneva 1929–1931 Composer and conductor for stage music in the theatre at Zurich 1931–1933 Bookdealer in Stuttgart, as proprietor of the anthroposophical Novalis-Bücherstube 1933 Flight from Stuttgart; return to Prague 1934 Hertzka Prize for the orchestral arrangement of the "Schönberg Variations" (Op. 3b) 1935–1937 Instruction in composition from Alois Hába 1936 Hertzka Prize for the opera The Fall of the