In my old home town area, there are four places – four buildings – whose names end in ‘Schlingen’: Einschlingen, Zweischlingen, Dreischlingen and Vierschlingen. Hundreds of years ago, these were customs posts. Travellers had to pay a fee to continue along the country road (they’re all on the same road, what’s now the B 68).
Zweischlingen is a cool venue with a restaurant and a disco; Dreischlingen used to be a brothel and has burnt down; Einschlingen is a community centre, some sort of social hub; and Vierschlingen … nobody knows anymore!
How would I translate ‘Schlingen’? Slings? Loops? Like little pauses on a string, that’s what they were and that’s what I animated!
