 Long-standing restrictions on foreign travel rapidly disappeared and Zimmerling was able to accompany his bride to Austria where she completed her artistic studies in Vienna and he undertook a twelve month internship on an organic winery up-river at Wachau.Since 1991 Chodakowska has lived with her husband in Dresden and supported herself as a freelance sculptress.It was also in 1991 that she was accepted for membership of the Saxon Artists' Association ("Sächsische Künstlerbund").