The novel Löns is seen writing in the pub is "Das zweite Gesicht - eine Liebesgeschichte" (The second face - a love story) on which this movie is partly based.
While released in 1957, the movie was produced in 1956, 5 years after the release of Grün ist die Heide (1951), another big screen adaptation of a Hermann Löns novel.
In the original novel, which is inspired by Hermann Löns' own life, the main character is called Helmold Hagenrieder and is a painter, rather than a writer.