The author uses archival data to showcase Dedecius’s efforts after his resettlement to the FRG in 1952 to prove his qualifications as an expert in Soviet drama and a skilled translator of Russian lyric literature through his publications. He contacted an Eastern Europe specialist, Klaus Mehnert. Eventually he became a translator of Polish literature. In the second part of his study, the author describes the circumstances of the publication of the anthology of Polish poetry Lesson of Silence [Germ. Lektion der Stille] based on Dedecius’s correspondence with Herbert G. Göpfert and Kazimierz Wyka.