The filia hospitalis, as the innkeeper's daughter was called in student language, is also the subject of the "milljöh" cartoonist heinrich zille, although here he is not romanticized or kitschy as is often the case. Note how the innkeeper's wife is not at all upset about her naked daughter in the student's bed, but rather about the strange, new-fangled apparatus of the "doctor". In many german university towns, all students from the first semester onwards were addressed as "doctor" by the local population. On the wall above the bed are two crossed bell strikers, the dueling weapon common in berlin, which identifies the student as a member of a dueling fraternity. The utensils on the bookshelf (see also: skull) indicate a medical student. Drawing by heinrich zille, died august 9, 1929, rights expired, public domain.
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