Maleperduis

Malepartus ( neulateinisch, from French: mal = bad, bad and pertuis = passage ( hole ) ) referred to in the fable of the fox the apartment. The term appears in many fables, he has a supporting role in the adaptation of the Low German fable Reineke Fuchs. The fable was transferred in 1752 by Johann Christoph Gottsched into German and edited in 1794 by Goethe. Malepartus appeared there in the first song on, in which many animals complain about the misdeeds of the fox, the badger, and only speaks for him:

Also in other literary genres, the term is used in either the mythical sense, for example, in Friedrich Spielhagen novel hammer and anvil,

Or Prince of Pueckler Muskau from Mehemet Ali's kingdom, where it however comes to a hyena:

Elsewhere Malepartus referred figuratively - but again in the literal sense - the refuge of a wicked, evil people, such as in Gottfried Keller Zurich novella " The Fool on Manegg " Others he knew in his Malepartus to lure and so in distress to placed that they escaped the walls and the risk of emergency.

Compare also the film Malpertuis with Orson Welles.