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Synopsis: If a paradise school existed, Boudewijn Büch would be the history teacher there. Of course because of his passionate presentation, but also his ability to make connections between the most diverse cultural and social developments emerged. In a television program by Boudewijn, South African exiles and a song by The Kinks can be mentioned in one sentence and something seemingly trivial like Napoleon's `` itching of the buttocks '' due to hemorrhoids can be taken as a plausible cause for losing the Battle. Waterloo. Boudewijn's involved field research is regularly put into perspective with this kind of human traits and the necessary, sometimes spicy humor. "Goethe liked big tits and was right-winged. You need to know that otherwise you don't understand literature, "he says into the camera. In Frankfurt, Boudewijn describes Tischbein's painting of Goethe in the Tuscan countryside as "a bit crazy, but with vision": a metaphor for Boudewijn's own life. Just like the description of Napoleon - wide interest, hardly any sleep, working too hard, phenomenal memory and an awful lot of writing - is very reminiscent of the presenter. In a statue he declares his love for the (fat) belly of Napoleon, because of his cultural and scientific interest and great enthusiasm for work, he is a "nice dictator". And "a doerak that his friend Goethe never dropped." In a never-before-broadcast film shot on Elba, Boudewijn then criticizes his hero for the first time, who betrayed Napoleon by no longer visiting him and by the publication of a vile critical writing. If paradise did not exist, libraries (at home and elsewhere all over the world) were an acceptable earthly alternative for Boudewijn.
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