Hölderlin's poems portray a deep ambivalence of the question of God shaping it as an open question. Being presented in a highly differentiated and nuanced way, immediate answers prove to be inadequate. Therefore, it is problematic to attribute to Hölderlin's writing notions like pantheism, panentheism, return of the Christian God, renaissance of the Greek gods, nature as divine ground, artistic replacement or philosophical overcoming of the question of God, or even atheism. All this exists in Hölderlin's texts, often even in the same poem - however, all these notions appear to be just moments, not ultimate answers. If one regards them as ultimate answers, the dynamic of the open question of God would be ignored. As I want to show in my presentation, openness is a driving force of Hölderlin's work from the very beginning to his latest texts. Special focus will be laid on the revisions of the poem "Dichterberuf".