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Graceful Appearance, Powerful Voice Dieter Gutschick & Dr. Marianne Gutschick “On the bus on an excursion to Prague in winter semester 1964/65 I saw a cute girl with blond hair stuck up in a bun and a friendly face. She aroused my interest immedi- ately, so I stood next to the door at the first break to get a better look at her as she stepped out of the bus. Out climbed a graceful young lady who, hardly out of the bus, again almost disappeared from my view. The combination of a powerful voice and a grace- ful appearance fascinated me so much that I used the entire stay in Prague to convey my interest in a relationship – and it evidently worked.” Proposal on Her Birthday Dr. Ortrud Müller-Dietz & Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Heinz Müller-Dietz “On Sunday, October 3rd, 1954 – we had both just arrived in Freiburg a few weeks be- fore – we each decided to take a hike to Schauinsland independently of one another. I started at Sternwaldeck, and my future husband start- ed in Günterstal. We met along the way there, got along right away, and decided to hike back together. He accompa- nied me to my doorstep and said he would come back the following Saturday. But he was already there again on Mon- day. He proposed to me in December, and on December 18th, my birthday, I agreed to marry him. It was the pro- verbial love at first sight.” From Prejudice to True Love Renate Frenzel & Alexander Frenzel At 2:27 p.m. on 13 April 1970 a pretty 23-year-old law student stepped out of the train from Hamburg at the Freiburg train station. At the law library she met a classmate who asked her: “And where do you come from?” When he said in return that he was from “Berlin,” she turned away and remarked that she had never got along with Berliners. On the next day around lunchtime the two met again by chance at the fountain behind Collegiate Building II. She smiled at him, and he smiled back. In the lecture course the next day she asked quietly: “Do you have a pencil?” He laughed. She had addressed him with the familiar “Du” for the first time. The ice was bro- ken, and the way was paved for a relationship that is still alive today – despite the fact that he’s from Berlin. Fluttering Skirt, Thumping Hearts Karl Horn & Barbara Horn “I saw her – medium-sized, ­full-figured, brunette, diverse interests, and witty – for the first time at a meeting of the departmental student committee of theology in the so-called ‘rabbit stall’ in summer semes- ter 1989. The fact that she didn’t make the impression of being particularly interested at the start didn’t stop me from trying to introduce myself into her daily routine as often as possible. My persistence finally warmed her stone cold heart and she became curious. I convinced her to go on a day trip with me. She expected a car, but I came on a motorcycle. So she rode with me wearing a half-shell helmet and a skirt that fluttered in the wind as our hearts thumped. It was the first of many great day trips – and we’re still doing them today!” 19uni'alumni 2012 Alumni Network