She inspired Goethe to some of his most beautiful poems: Friederike Brion from the Alsatian village of Sesenheim. It was a passionate, brief romance that connected the young poet with the pastor's daughter. More than forty years later, Goethe recounts this in his work "Dichtung und Wahrheit." Theodor Stemmler retells the story of this youthful love, drawing on Goethe's original texts from his time in Strasbourg and Sesenheim, from April 1770 to August 1771. Free from the interpretations and speculations of past generations, a new perspective on the Sturm und Drang movement of that time emerges.