Overview

• An Instagram video shared by wife Kathrin Mermi-Schmelz shows Schmelz standing in the Mediterranean off Mallorca for the first time since his illness.
• Schmelz says his wife still needs to hold him, calls the moment a “geiler Erfolg,” and hopes to swim again soon.
• He was discharged in early September after weeks in a Mallorca hospital, including time in intensive care and a medically induced coma.
• Doctors had been treating a damaging fungal infection in his lungs, and his recovery remains gradual with ongoing rehabilitation needs.
• The couple thanked fans for sustained support and encouragement during his hospitalization and the early phase of recovery at home.