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Erich Maria Remarque

Also known as Erich Paul Remark, Erich Maria Remark

German-born novelist (1898–1970)

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Erich Maria Remarque, born Erich Paul Remark on June 22, 1898, in Osnabrück, was a German-American writer, novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. A Catholic, he participated in World War I and received the Iron Cross. He was a member of the German Academy for Language and Literature and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Nobel Peace Prize. His notable works include *All Quiet on the Western Front*, *Shadows in Paradise*, *The Road Back*, and *Spark of Life*.

Remarque held citizenship in Germany and the United States. He was married to Paulette Goddard and was in an unmarried partnership with Marlene Dietrich. He had a sibling named Elfriede Scholz. He died on September 25, 1970, in Locarno. His work was associated with the Nazi book burnings. He received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 22 Jun 1898
Died: 25 Sep 1970
Works: 100

Top works

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Der ṿeg oyf tsuriḳ
a fawcett premier book all quiet on the western front

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Film & TV

Writing · Osnabrück, Germany

Erich Maria Remarque, born Erich Paul Remark, was a German author, best known for his 1929 anti-war novel "All Quiet on the Western Front", based on his experiences as a conscript in Wold War I. When publishing that novel, he changed his middle name in memory of his mother and reverted to the earlier spelling of his family name, which had been changed by his grandfather in the 19th century. His…

Known for

Erich Maria Remarque und Marlene Dietrich - Flucht in die Liebe — Self (archive footage)2025
Das Profil — Self1962
A Time to Love and a Time to Die — Professor Pohlmann1958

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Active from: 1898
Active to: 1970

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 563
Total plays: 14,901

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,605x
A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,753x
New Algorithms and Methods to Estimate Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies: Assessing the Performance of PhyML 3.0
· 2010 · cited 16,942x
Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,936x
The Hallmarks of Aging
· 2013 · cited 14,088x

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Quotes

“Aber das ist wohl so, weil ein einzelner immer der Tod ist — und zwei Millionen immer nur eine Statistik.”
“This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war.”
“It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is often brought on by small men. They are so much more energetic and uncompromising than the big fellows.”
“We march up, moody or good-tempered soldiers — we reach the zone where the front begins and become on the instant human animals.”
“We are not youth any longer. We don’t want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in the war.”
“It is just as much a matter of chance that I am still alive as that I might have been hit. In a bomb-proof dug-out I might have been smashed to atoms, and in the open may survive ten hours' bombardment unscathed. No soldier survives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.”

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Encyclopedic overview

Erich Maria Remarque (/rəˈmɑːrk/; German: [ˈeːʁɪç maˈʁiːa ʁəˈmaʁk] ; born Erich Paul Remark; 22 June 1898 – 25 September 1970) was a German novelist. His landmark novel All Quiet on the Western Front (1928), based on his experience in the Imperial German Army during World War I, was an international bestseller which created a new literary genre of veterans writing about conflict. The book was adapted to film several times. Remarque's anti-war themes led to his condemnation by Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels as "unpatriotic". He was able to use his literary success and fame to relocate to Switzerland as a refugee, and to the United States, where he became a naturalized citizen.

Early life

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