Professor Unrat
| Written by: | Heinrich Mann |
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| First published: | 1905 |
Heinrich Mann's novel about a despotic teacher.
This novel has been made into four movies:
- 1930: Der blaue Engel
- 1959: The Blue Angel
- 1972: Pinjra
- 1973: Anjo Loiro
Tropes used in Professor Unrat include:
- Brilliant but Lazy: Lohmann.
- Despotism Justifies the Means: For Unrat, ruining the former disobedient students is worth ruining his own fortune and allowing his wife to cheat on him.
- Devoted to You: Ertzum to Rosa.
- Fiery Redhead: Rosa.
- Forbidden Fruit: Lohmann for Rosa.
- I Love You Because I Can't Control You: Rosa for the immune Lohmann.
- In Love with Love: Lohmann.
- Loving a Shadow: Ertzum, loving Rosa for reminding him of a peasant girl, who made him a man.
- Married to the Job: Unrat to the school, later to seizing power on the town.
- Really Gets Around: Rosa.
- Sleeps with Everyone but You: Rosa is a cheap hooker but she wouldn't be with Ertzum for his whole inheritage.
- The Trickster: Kieselack.
- Unholy Matrimony: Unrat and Rosa.