Can someone who is imaginative and knows German help me with this?

Question

It is for a story I am writing. I need the following:

1- A name for a fictional German hospital located in southern germany, near the Swiss border, where secret research is conducted that could delay aging significantly. The hospital name has to be a german name, and preferably one which reflects, in a very subtle way, the true nature of the Hospital.

2- A German name of a fictional cure for aging.

3- A suggestion of a true location in Germany for such hospital. Somewhere near the swiss border, preferebly on a lake, and as desolate and far from urban communities as possible.

Thanks . I greatly appreciate your help.

Answer 1

If you know some German, check out the Wikipedia entry for "Das Blaue Palais":

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Blaue_P...

Episode 4, "Immortality", is especially interesting. I saw it on TV when I was a boy, but there's no video copy available. I requested at ZDF (German public TV), but in vain. If you're in the movie business, maybe you'll be more successful, and they'll send you a copy. Please ask them.

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1.: "Altenheim" or "Altersheim" is the blunt name for a clinic for the eleders; in my opinion, "Wiesenhütte" would be what you like. "Wiese" means "meadows" (the hunting grounds, you know), and "Hütte" resembles something like "Berghütte", the place hikers go in for a rest. It also resembles the Alps.

2.: "anti-aging". That's actually a German word, in what we call "Denglisch". I don't know a word that could be stronger and more despising old people than the words we currently have.

3.: Konstanz, near the Bodensee. Check that out on Google Maps.

Answer 2

well...first of all, I would have an idea for a location. In the south of Germany on the border to Switzerland there is the so-called "Bodensee" a lake that is actually divided in the middle. So one part is german and the other half is swiss. Anyway in the middle of that lake (its a huge lake) there is a little island that is only connected to mainland by a tiny strand of land for cars. The island is called "Reichenau" which in my opinion is a name that can be seen as typically german. here is a link for a google map for you to look at it http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&ge... .

Well for a name I can obviously only make a suggestion and I thought of something like "Private Wellness Klinik Niederzell". Basically private hospitals fall under the cliche that sometimes you just dont know whats really going on there. As you said the research is to delay aging and so i thought that "wellness" does kind of imply something in that direction without sayin anythin about research and "Niederzell" (as you will see when you click on the link i inserted earlier) is the name for one part of the Island that also is typically german and it seemed to be the part of the island that is the least populated, so I thought it would be most suitable.

As for a name for the cure.....well see I think this is a little more complicated. But as normal medicine generally has latin names (you probably know that german is a roman language) and so I have two suggestions: one is "anti-caducix"...well thats supposed to mean anti-aging. caduco mean old (for people) but in spanish...i couldnt find out who to say that in latin, but if you find out than the actual translation of anti-aging into latin would be one idea. My second idea would be "juventernal"...its basically a combination of the words "juventud" (which means youth) and "eternal"....

well....i hope i could help and good luck with your story.

Answer 3

There is one problem: the area near the swiss boarder is densely populated.

e.g. Reichenau (http://www.reichenau.de/)is only a few minutes to the city constance.