[1] During a semester studying German at the Goethe Institute, Munich, she met Dutschke, a charismatic figure among radical students in West Berlin.
In March 1965 she moved to Germany and married him while taking up studies at Free University of Berlin.
[2][3] Following an assassination attempt on her husband in April 1968, she and the first of their three children moved with him to Cambridge, England, and then Aarhus, Denmark.
[4] Six years after Rudi Dutschke's death in 1979 from complications arising from his injuries in 1968, she moved back to the United States, returning to Berlin in 2009.
[5] She has published memoirs and reflections on her and Rudi Dutschke's experiences of the "anti-authoritarian" 1960s student movement, which she believes "changed Germany".