Germany’s only wave pool stepped in to fill the surfing void after Munich’s premier river wave shut down. When the famed Eisbach disappeared in early November because of a city-run dredging project, ...

MUNICH — "It was gnarly. Dangerous. Only the most experienced could surf it," says Jakob Netzer of what local surfers have come to call the "E1," an ever-churning wave along a mountain stream that ...

Rob Schmitz is NPR's international correspondent based in Berlin, where he covers the human stories of a vast region reckoning with its past while it tries to guide the world toward a brighter future.