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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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