One fine morning, it was 29 May 1842, I saw a carriage stop in front of a friend's house, which my friend was about to board with another friend who belonged to both of us. "Where to?" I asked. "To S.," was the answer. "What are you going to do there?" - "Oh," cried my lively friend Fischer: "Birthday - Venetian regatta - Bucentaur - little angels - Waren's fishermen's servants - cannons - fisherman's sting - beer and brandy - people - Countess X. - bratwurst.""

Fritz Reuter, actually: Heinrich Ludwig Christian Friedrich Reuter (* 7 November 1810 in Stavenhagen; + 12 July 1874 in Eisenach) was a German poet and writer of Low German. Together with Klaus Groth, he is considered one of the founders of modern Low German literature. Thomas Westphal lives and works in Rostock, Germany.