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Erich Maria Remarque was a German-born novelist best known for writing powerful stories about the human cost of war, most famously *All Quiet on the Western Front*, which depicted the experiences of soldiers in World War I. His work matters because it provided unflinching, emotionally honest accounts of warfare that influenced how people understood modern conflict and helped establish the anti-war novel as an important literary form.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 22 Jun 1898
- Died
- 25 Sep 1970
- Works
- 100
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- arch of triumph
- im westen nights neues
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- Der ṿeg oyf tsuriḳ
- a fawcett premier book all quiet on the western front
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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…
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- 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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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.
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