"Strange I entered, strange I leave": No other German song cycle is as well-known and esteemed as Wilhelm Müller's Winterreise. Poems like "Am Brunnen vor dem Tore" have even become folk songs through Schubert's settings. "Gute Nacht" and "Der Leiermann" are part of the repertoire of all great song singers: there is no one who has not attempted the sentimental journey of the lover into the solitude of winter and death. This volume presents all the poems of Winterreise along with an afterword by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, a musicologist and a singular interpreter of these songs.