Albrecht Kienow, an anglicist and former teacher at a grammar school has begun, after his retirement, to engage himself in adapting selected lyrical works of romantic poets using the English language. He started with the songbook of Theodor Storm, which is already available on the market. When he realized that he could do such translations successfully, he chose Goethe as the next poet and on careful deliberation he decided to discuss with me if it made sense to present also this new adaptation of Goethe's poems to a larger public. In the end he and I thought that we should venture the step of going public with his adaptations.