Professor Unrat
by Heinrich Mannliterary work· published 1905
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Professor Unrat, oder Das Ende eines Tyrannen (1905, trans. by Ernest Boyd as Small Town Tyrant), which translates as "Professor Garbage", 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. In the United States, an abridgment of the English translation was published in 1932 under the title The Blue Angel. The novel starts with a reclusive school teacher in his late 50s. He has alienated his son, and he treats his students as foes.
Adaptations (1)
Professor Unrat was adapted into a 1930 film.
The Blue Angel1930 · film · 104 min · dir. Josef von Sternberg · IMDb ↗Prim professor Immanuel Rath finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret performer Lola Lola and visits a local club, The Blue Angel, in an attempt to catch them there. Seeing Lola perform, the teacher is filled with lust, eventually resigning his position at the school to marry the young woman. However, his marriage to a coquette -- whose job is to entice men -- proves to be more difficult than Rath imagined.
