What few people know is that even the Nobel Prize winner Günter Grass, who died in 2015, would occasionally sit in the stands at the Schwarzwaldstadion. Walter Jens, the legendary professor of rhetoric, was also a fan. “Freiburg,” he mused, “is the only team for me that has wit and esprit and not the dull seriousness of muscle-bound footballers.” The football writer Günter Rohrbacher-List told Ligalive.net: “Seen from the outside, SC Freiburg is much more of a cult club than Mainz 05, for example. That also has to do with conditions in Freiburg, where for decades Freiburger FC played first fiddle.”
