Floods caused by heavy rainfall are also taking on drastic dimensions in Germany. The year 2021 brought this fact to us once again. architekturdesigner.XR therefore spoke with Jochen Kurrle, who works as a heavy rainfall manager and infrastructure expert at the consulting firm Drees & Sommer. What his tasks are there, what effects the meteorological changes will have on our cities, what a so-called cloudburst plan is, and what he specifically wants from architects are some of the things we talked about with him shortly before the federal elections in Germany.