Schwenk

See also: schwenk

German

Etymology

Deverbal from schwenken.

Pronunciation

  • Audio (Germany (Berlin)):(file)

Noun

Schwenk m (strong, genitive Schwenks, plural Schwenks or Schwenke)

  1. (photography, film) pan, tilt
  2. swing, swivel, pivot (change in direction, often figuratively regarding trends, political position or approach)
    • 2005, Frank Niess, Schatten auf Hollywood, Cologne: PapyRossa, →ISBN, page 32:
      […] , als im August 1939 bekannt wurde, dass Stalin einen Nichtangriffspakt mit Hitler geschlossen hatte. Die Kommunistische Partei der USA vollzog diesen Schwenk eilfertig mit.
      […] when it became known in 1939 that Stalin had agreed to a non-aggresion pact with Hitler. The Communist Party of the USA hastily went along with this pivot.
    • 2008 May 4, Frederik Hanssen, “Operation Klassik”, in Tagesspiegel‎[1], archived from the original on 26 October 2022:
      Während sein TV-Kollege beim Leichenzerlegen Klassik aus dem CD-Player dröhnen lässt, hat Willich auch nach dem Schwenk zur Medizin in seiner Freizeit stets selber aktiv Musik gemacht […]
      While his on-screen colleage has classical music blaring from a CD player while cutting open bodies, Willich has always made music himself in his free time evem after his pivot to medicine […]

Further reading

  • “Schwenk” in Duden online
  • “Schwenk” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
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