Professor Unrat
The Blue Angel or The end of a tyrant is one of the most important works of Heinrich Mann.
The Blue Angel was in some months of the year 1904 and appeared a year later. In Mann's hometown of Lübeck, whose inhabitants had to serve for the novel, the book was hushed as possible and if that did not work, negatively criticized. There was a de facto ban on the book. The numerous translations and through the film as The Blue Angel with Marlene Dietrich became the book world fame. Some saw in The Blue Angel a caricature of the German educational citizen of the Wilhelmine era. It showed what height can reach the double standards of the middle class, if it can be determined by secondary virtues, and is a document of the mentality in Germany before the world wars.
Content
The 57 -year-old high school teacher Raat lives alone and withdrawn. He is widowed and has disowned his son because this is four times fallen by the exam and can be seen with various unmarried woman in public rooms. As a professor, he is indeed a legend. From almost every family of the place of one or the other offspring was once a pupil of strict professor. The nickname " filth ", with which he is called behind his back, has become a tradition in the town. Everyone calls him and brings him so contrary to a certain ironic appreciation Raat however does not recognize. For him, the denigration of his name is an attack on his person and a sign of disrespect. School life is a daily struggle for him, his pupils are his enemies who must be fought by all means. So he puts them tasks that they can not solve, to punish them then.
The 17- year-old son of the consul Lohmann filth in school a special opponent: he is intelligent, not to meet through penalties and knows exactly how to bring the professor into a rage. As Raat him because of the use of the nickname " garbage " into a dark wardrobe room, the " cubbyhole ", refers, he notes in the essay booklet the student a poem titled "Homage to the noble artist Miss Pink Cheerful ".
To bring Lohmann finally fall to Raat makes the search for this "Miss Pink Cheerful ". He finds out that they are in the nightclub of " The Blue Angel" appears as " barefoot dancer ". Persuading himself that he was doing only about the welfare of his students, he enters the economy. However, there befalls him one mishap after another until his students pay attention to him. As he flees through a door, he suddenly stands before Rosa Fröhlich. Although he anherrscht her to stop, to seduce his students and leave the city, she takes him in front of their colleagues in protection and offers him wine to. The sought-after by his students " artist " does not miss even the professor their effect.
The next morning it at school a tense truce: Raat fears that his students have made him ridiculous in the class - the students are afraid to be quoted to the director. After school Raat is determined to be in front of his students at Rosa Fröhlich. He can not stand that students send their wine and flowers. Pink ensnared the professor said she had the flowers thrown away by the students, and lets him help when changing clothes. Raat is coming increasingly under its spell. He fulfilled her every wish, expensive food in the restaurant, new clothes, a furnished apartment, he sorted her even the laundry. You " is now under his protection." So he not only ensures that his students do not come too close to her, he also holds other admirers away from her and throws about a ship captain also, who wants to visit them in the dressing room.
Fewer and fewer cares Raat what people think about him. Neither his housekeeper who complained about Rosas visits, nor a complaint of his headmaster able to impress him. He even goes so far as to publicly defend Rosas honor when she is accused of having destroyed along with his students a passage grave. Only when Rosa must admit to having participated in the ceremony on giant desert grave, he pulls back on the ground destroyed. He is dismissed from the teaching service.
When the pastor against Rosa argues Raat defends and holds the intention to marry her, which he did not desist when he learns that Rosa has a daughter. However, after two years of marriage with Rosa Raat is financially ruined. A friend Rosas advised him to give lessons. The " teaching " looks soon made so that the men of the city to meet in his house at game and wine and pink is them very skillfully and discreetly services.
At the end Lohmann re-enters Raats life. Pink meets former students in the city and invites him into her home. There Lohmann offers to pay all their debts, and sets the unfolded wallet on the table. When Rosa also sings his old poem from the school essay, crashes the jealous Raat from the next room and tries to turn a blind her throat. Then he reaches for Lohmann's wallet and rushes out. Shortly thereafter, the couple Raat is arrested. The respectable citizens who came to his house a short time ago like to have, for the professor now only ridicule and scorn.