Streszczenie książki Profesor Unrat

The story in 10 parts

1. Key idea 1 · free to read

   A teacher called Filth rules by fear

   Professor Raat has taught in the same school for twenty-six years. His pupils have twisted his name into Unrat, meaning filth, and the whole town knows it. He treats every shouted insult as a crime that must be proved. He can prove nothing, so he memorizes faces and waits.

   One foggy morning, a heavy country boy, Count von Ertzum, bellows the hated word from a window. Raat takes the stairs in five bounds and sends the boy to the dark cloakroom he calls the hole. Then he sets a trick essay topic and rejoices as the class falls apart. Lohmann, a pale pupil who writes poems, cannot stand it. He rises and says that it smells of filth, and Raat drags him out too.

   Mann shows a man who has lived only among schoolboys and sees all of life as a school. Such a man is strong inside his walls and helpless outside them. A tyrant who lives on obedience is ruled by his fear of a single word.

2. 2

   One poem sends him hunting through town

   In Lohmann's notebook, Raat finds the start of a poem addressed to the artist Rosa Fröhlich.

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3. 3

   A night at the Blue Angel overturns him

   The Blue Angel is a vast old hall filled with sailors, dockworkers and soldiers, thick with smoke and noise.

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4. 4

   He becomes the keeper of her dressing room

   The next evening Raat returns, telling himself that he must keep Lohmann away from her.

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5. 5

   Three pupils watch, scheme, and lose their illusions

   Lohmann, Ertzum and Kieselack are the book's young trio.

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6. 6

   A trial shows the town's verdict and his grief

   A groundskeeper reports that the megalithic tomb has been damaged.

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7. 7

   They marry and open a house of ruin

   Rosa takes up Greek lessons, partly out of respect and partly as a promise to try to love him.

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8. 8

   A tyrant who cannot bear mockery becomes an anarchist

   Raat's whole life is built on authority.

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9. 9

   People become what others take them for

   Rosa and Raat shape each other.

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10. 10

    Mann tells it with irony, repeated phrases and cruel comedy

    Mann tells the story from outside, but he moves close to one mind at a time.

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