Here’s a crisp, two-language unpacking.

English

What the pun does

• Triple split:SchWeinWelten can be read as
  1. Schwein-welten → “pig worlds,”
  2. Sch + Wein + Welten → “wine worlds” hidden inside Schwein,
  3. Schwein + Welten → “worlds of swine.”
     The deliberately odd camel case (a German Binnenmajuskel) spotlights Wein inside Schwein, turning one compound into a visual collage.
• Semantic friction: It fuses butchery (pigs, flesh, trade, everyday labor) with festivity and fermentation (wine). That tension—abattoir vs. banquet, matter vs. myth—creates a small “world-making” device in the word itself.
• Cultural echoes: In German idiom Schwein haben = “to be lucky”; in popular culture pigs oscillate between the abject and the auspicious. Welten (worlds) scales this up from animals to cosmology, satire, and social order.
• Dada logic: Calling it made “according to the non-existent principles of Dadaism” is a witty meta-move. Dada favored anti-programs, chance juxtapositions, nonsense, and typographic play. Your family background (“son of a butcher”) grounds the nonsense in lived material culture—classic Dada: everyday stuff cut up, shuffled, re-signified.
• Bonus bilingual quirk: In English, s/wine—swine literally contains wine. The pun survives the translation in a sly letterplay.

Good English renderings

“SchWeinWorlds” (lets the German stem show through, more avant-garde)

“PigWorlds” (keeps the core sense)

“sWineWorlds” (mirrors the inner wine)

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