Lipschitzbad

Lipschitzbad is both a practical landmark and part of the narrator’s remembered neighborhood landscape. The pool is invoked in a conversation about the nearby park, while the blocks across from it appear in a quieter scene that measures the present against childhood memory.

Setting and Nearby Park

Julius and Gino discuss going to the park near Lipschitzbad to get cannabis. Gino suggests that Cem can supply it and thinks the park will be less crowded at that hour. The plan places Lipschitzbad in the group’s everyday geography: it helps locate a park associated with buying drugs, though the friends do not go to the pool itself in these scenes.

The Pool as a Point of Contrast

When a man in the park challenges the group about why they are there, he points toward Lipschitzbad and tells them they could go sunbathe at the pool instead. His remark casts the park as a place people visit to buy cannabis or other drugs, rather than simply to spend time. The pool serves as the pointed alternative, not as a destination the group takes up.

View from the Balcony

Later, the narrator and Gino stand on the balcony and look across at the white apartment blocks with colorful balconies opposite Lipschitzbad. The narrator observes that they seem dirtier every day, then recalls them as bright white from the time he went to after-school care and primary school nearby, while acknowledging that this is how he remembers them. The pool’s place in the view connects a present marked by decline with a childhood landscape preserved in memory.