Cast
- Jörg Schüttauf as Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz
- Christian Kuchenbuch as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Hans-Otto Reintsch as Johann Georg Schlosser
- Anja Kling as Cleophe
- Götz Schubert as Johann Gottfried von Herder
- Suzanne Stoll as Frau Saltzmann
- Francis Freyburger as Herr Saltzmann
- Matthias Bundschuh as Maximilian Klinger
- Susanna Simon as Friederike
- Rolf Ludwig as Seidel