The Swiss Larissa Georgiou alias Larissa Iceglass and the British William Maybelline founded Lebanon Hanover in 2010 after meeting in Maybelline's hometown Sunderland. Iceglass originally spent her vacation there. Both wrote several of the titles of the debut album The World Is Getting Colder within a week. Soon afterwards, Maybelline followed Iceglass to Berlin, where she continued to make music with her. Since then, the duo's location has alternated between Germany and England; Among other things, both moved temporarily to Sunderland in order to find free accommodation in Maybelline's parents' house.