Heinrich mann professor unrath college
Professor Unrat
novel by Heinrich Mann
Professor Unrat, oder Das Ende eines Tyrannen (, trans. by Ernest Boyd as Small Town Tyrant), which translates as "Professor Garbage",[1] is one of the most important works of Heinrich Mann, and has achieved notoriety through film adaptations, most notably Der blaue Engel with Marlene Dietrich.
The book caricatures the middle and upper class educational system of Wilhelmine Germany and the double standards of the title character.
Heinrich mann professor unrath Professor Unrat, oder Das Ende eines Tyrannen (, trans. by Ernest Boyd as Small Town Tyrant), which translates as "Professor Garbage", [1] is one of the most important works of Heinrich Mann, and has achieved notoriety through film adaptations, most notably Der blaue Engel with Marlene Dietrich.In the United States, an abridgment of the English translation was published in under the title The Blue Angel.
Plot summary
The protagonist is Raat, a year-old reclusive, widowed school teacher who is estranged from his son because of the son's academic laxity and scandalous trysts with women. Even though everyone around is either a former student of his or a descendant thereof, Raat is not held in high regard by his students.
He takes the nickname "Unrat" (literally meaning "garbage") to be a personal affront, and treats every school-day as a battle against his foes, the students, and uses impossible assignments as his means of achieving victory.
One of Raat's most formidable adversaries is the year-old Lohmann, whose quick-thinking allows him to escape punishment and enrage his teacher.
Heinrich mann professor unrath arrested Heinrich Mann. Professor Unrat oder Das Ende eines Tyrannen. Roman. Fünftes bis siebentes Tausend. Kurt Wolff Verlag Leipzig. Gedruckt bei E. Haberland, Leipzig. I. Da er Raat hieß, nannte die ganze Schule ihn Unrat. Nichts konnte einfacher und natürlicher sein. Der und jener Professor wechselten zuweilen ihr Pseudonym.Raat discovers a poem in the student's notebook addressed to "Fräulein Rosa Fröhlich", whom he proceeds to track down. At the "Blue Angel", he finds a placard promoting the "barefoot dancer" Rosa Fröhlich. Trying to avoid his students, Raat finds himself in the dressing room of the dancer, where he commands her to stop corrupting his students and leave town immediately.
In response, she offers the professor wine, and attempts to charm him.
The next morning sees a cease-fire between the students and the professor; he is afraid of being made a fool of in the classroom and they are afraid of being written up by the principal. That night, he returns to Fröhlich and calmly explains how unacceptable it is for her to accept wine, champagne, and flowers from students.
She explains that she sends such things from students back, and undresses, beginning a relationship with Raat that sees him catering to her every wish: expensive restaurants, new clothing, a furnished flat, even sorting her laundry. Eventually he is fired from his position, marries her, and discovers she has a daughter.
Heinrich mann professor unrath wife Professor Unrat oder Das Ende eines Tyrannen zählt zu den bedeutendsten erzählenden Werken Heinrich Manns. Es entstand ab Ende Dezember und wurde im August abgeschlossen. Die erste Buchausgabe erschien im April des darauffolgenden Jahres. Teilweise wurde der Roman auch unter dem Titel Der blaue Engel in den Handel gebracht.After two years, Raat is financially ruined. A friend of his wife suggests that he give "lectures", which serve as a cover for his wife to discreetly entertain men in the professor's formerly respectable home.
Lohmann re-enters Raat's life, offering to pay all of his wife's debts, but the jealous Raat tries to strangle her and makes off with Lohmann's wallet.
Lohmann reports this to the police, and both Raat and his wife are arrested.