 Liebesgedichte" was published whilst Stramm was at the front in 1915.Stramm's war poetry was published in "Der Sturm" during his lifetime and later appeared in the collection "Tropfenblut" ("Dripping Blood"), which was posthumously published in 1919.According to Patrick Bridgwater, "Stramm's war poems are concerned with particulars, with the brute realities, the basic experiences of life at the front."