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3	''Professor Unrat, oder Das Ende eines Tyrannen''' (translated as "Professor Unclean, Small Town Tyrant"), is a 1905 novel by German author Heinrich Mann about a despotic teacher.
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5	The book caricatures the middle and upper class educational system of [[UsefulNotes/ImperialGermany Wilhelmine Germany]] and the double standards of the title character. In the United States, an abridgment of the English translation was published in 1932 under the title ''[[MarketBasedTitle The Blue Angel]]''.
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7	The novel served as the basis for the 1930 film ''Film/TheBlueAngel''.
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9	!!This novel provides examples of:
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13	%%* AppropriatedAppellation: Unrat's nickname, after he gains dubious power over the town.
14	* BrilliantButLazy: Lohmann, who slacks off studying and educates himself instead, but still would get good grades if Unrat graded him justly.
15	* DespotismJustifiesTheMeans: For Unrat, ruining the former disobedient students is worth ruining his own fortune and allowing his wife to cheat on him.
16	%%* DevotedToYou: Ertzum to Rosa.
17	* EmbarrassingNickname: The basis of the Professor's mania, hatred and tyranny towards his students is the nickname "Unrat" ("Garbage"), which is completely justified in-universe: he is described as very ugly, disheveled, prematurely aged, rather incompetent and a failure in anything including his own former marriage.
18	%%* FieryRedhead: Rosa.
19	%%* ForbiddenFruit: Lohmann for Rosa.
20	%%* ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: Rosa for the immune Lohmann.
21	%%* InLoveWithLove: Lohmann.
22	* LovingAShadow: Ertzum, loving Rosa for reminding him of a peasant girl, who made him a man.
23	* MarriedToTheJob: Unrat to the school, later to seizing power on the town.
24	* NouveauRiche: The reason for which the wealthy men of the town are so easily ensnared and swindled in Unrat's gambling ring.
25	%%* ReallyGetsAround: Rosa.
26	* SadistTeacher: Unrat is a petty tyrant who hates all of his students, and delights in punishing them or giving them bad grades.
27	* SleepsWithEveryoneButYou: Rosa is a cheap hooker but she wouldn't be with Ertzum for his whole inheritage. Justified in-universe by the fact Ertzum--despite his aristocratic standing--is extremely stupid and boorish, so stupid he makes the Professor appear brilliant by comparison.
28	%%* TheTrickster: Kieselack.
29	%%* UnholyMatrimony: Unrat and Rosa.
30	%%* UpperClassTwit: Von Ertzum is a Count.

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