 Nena had written several songs between 1999 and 2001 and originally planned to record them for her upcoming album.However, Florian Sitzmann convinced her to start composing new songs with him, which resulted in an album that was quite different from her past material.In the end, two songs from Nena's original plan ("Ich hör mir zu" and "Dafür ist das Leben zu kurz") were recorded for the album and two further songs ("Kann schon sein" and "Silbermond") were newly composed with lyrics from her original plan.