The Wonder of Learning: The Image of the Educator in the Works of Gertrud Kolmar.
1985; Penn State University Press; Volume: 37; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
1527-2060
Autores Tópico(s)Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel
ResumoGerman literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries abounds with excoriating portrayals of educators. Heinrich Mann's Professor Unrat (1905), made famous through the early Marlene Dietrich-Emil Jannings film The Blue Angel, is perhaps the most blatant example of a teacher depicted as a power-hungry martinet whose sole aim in life is to make his students as miserable as humanly, or inhumanly, possible. In Thomas Mann's novel Buddenbrooks (1901), the sensitive and artistic Hanno, last descendant of a great patrician family, endures taunts and torments from his teacher. A work of the previous century by the Swiss author Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, entitled Das Leiden eines Knaben {The Sufferings of a Boy, 1883), relates the tale, based upon an incident found in the memoirs of Saint-Simon, of a young boy with limited intellectual capabilities who is literally hounded to death by his Jesuit teacher, P?re Tellier. Frank Wedekind's drama Fr?hlings Erwachen {Spring's Awakening, published 1891, performed 1906) portrays the awakening of adolescent sexual ity in an atmosphere that stifles all feelings and sensibilities; the book includes caricatures of the schoolteachers who, along with the parents, must bear responsibility for the ensu ing tragedies. In order to further dehumanize these wooden and unfeeling characters, Wedekind gives them characteristic names, such as Professors Breakneck, Tongue Twister, Total Loss, and Strychnine.1 In more popular literature, Erich Maria Remarque's Im Westen Nichts Neues {All Quiet on the Western Front, 1929) contains the now seemingly requisite portrait of the school
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