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The real class boundary is between those who were simply sent to their room as a naughty child and those who were sent “upstairs”.
It is the social demarcation line between homeowners and tenants.
It may go away in the next century.
Because the first German cities completely prohibit the construction of single-family houses in newly developed districts.
Hamburg is a pioneer.
It would also be a loss for art.
Because the world of single-family houses has produced cultural stereotypes that can be used globally because, at least in the west, suburbs are similar everywhere.
Everyone thinks they know the neglected housewife as in “Desperate Housewives” and the novels by John Updike.
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Another role subject in every representation of row house settlements is the nasty neighbor.
His highest growth form is the homophobic ore reactionary Col. Fitts, who in "American Beauty" in the end kills Kevin Spacey.
Angergiebel is actually called Jones
The ingenious comic author Carl Barks, on the other hand, who had to keep a series alive, never let the conflict between Donald Duck and his neighbor Jones escalate so much not only for reasons of child protection, but also because he thought economically.
Jones was needed for later.
Jones is so named because “keeping up with the Joneses” was a saying in the US that compared one's own wealth with that of one's neighbors.
In Germany he first appeared under different names in the classical translation by Erika Fuchs.
The brawny man now bears the speaking name Zorngiebel.
Like all ordinary people in Duckburg, he is an anthropomorphic dog.
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Donald has several fights with Zorngiebel, which escalated according to the principle of the classic slapstick, until they both put each other out of action and almost destroyed their houses.
At one point, it starts with Donald trying to get back a borrowed can of putty, and in the end both of them are frozen into statues covered in putty, which have to remain there until Tick, Trick and Track have scratched them free.
Another time Donald moves away - to the "penultimate house on the last street in Duckburg", only to find that the horror neighbor has moved in next door.
The first Jones story in the Duck universe created by Carl Barks is particularly interesting from a philological point of view: in 1943 Donald annoyed his neighbor by constantly throwing garbage over the fence.
Exactly this is also an eternal point of contention between the father of "Little Nick" and his neighbor.
Nick creator René Goscinny may have known Barks' story.
But such territorial conflicts over garbage and snap pea bushes are standard situations.
The fear of the normal citizen of the anger gable, which spoils the joy of the house, is international.
Later generations may not understand it anymore.