Overview

• Marco van Dré recalls falling in love at first sight when he met Ahrens in a Cologne bar and says he can imagine marrying her.
• van Dré, 51, has never been married or had children and is the founder of the animal welfare organization Veto.
• Ahrens, 56, ended a four-year single period before this relationship and has two adult daughters from her previous marriages.
• She has twice been divorced, first from Jost Paffrath in 2004 and later from Patrick Graf von Faber-Castell in 2015.
• Both partners describe themselves as very happy together and are now discussing plans to wed and build a future side by side.