In addition to the vertical tension between ‘heaven’ and ‘earth’, and the consequent feeling of being an outcast, we are also dealing with a horizontal tension, which is specifically linked to the Sudeten landscape. In Fridrich’s poetry, the landscape around his home of Děčín becomes a place he seeks time after time. As though the poet was remembering the Sudeten Germans who lived there, he is trying to look for their traces and build his own personal history.