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Encyclopedia > Erich Maria Remarque
Erich Maria Remarque

Born: June 22, 1898
Osnabrück, Germany
Died: September 25, 1970
Locarno, Switzerland
Occupation: Novelist
Nationality: German
Influences: Immanuel Kant, Karl May, Frank Wedekind, Rainer Maria Rilke

Erich Maria Remarque (June 22, 1898 – September 25, 1970) was the pseudonym of Erich Paul Remark, a German author. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (638x878, 195 KB) This is a copyrighted promotional photo with a known source. ... June 22 is the 173rd day of the year (174th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Osnabrück is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany, some 80 km NNE of Dortmund, 45 km NE of Münster, and some 100 km due west of Hanover. ... September 25 is the 268th day of the year (269th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... Location within Switzerland Locarno is a city located on Lake Maggiore (Lago Maggiore) in the southern Swiss canton of Ticino, close to Ascona. ... For the album by the Kaiser Chiefs see Employment (album) Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... In English usage, nationality is the legal relationship between a person and a country. ... Immanuel Kant (22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher from Königsberg in East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia). ... Karl May. ... Benjamin Franklin Wedekind (July 24, 1864 - March 9, 1918) was a German playwright. ... Rainer Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926) is considered one of the German languages greatest 20th century poets. ... June 22 is the 173rd day of the year (174th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... September 25 is the 268th day of the year (269th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... A pseudonym (Greek pseudo + -onym: false name) is an artificial, fictitious name, also known as an alias, used by an individual as an alternative to a persons true name. ... German literature comprises those literary texts originating within Germany proper and written in the German language. ...

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Life

Erich Paul Remark was born in Osnabrück into a working-class Roman Catholic family. At the age of eighteen he went as a soldier to the front lines of World War I, where he was wounded by stray shell fragments (according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayonet he served in the rear echelons, http://www.greatwar.nl/frames/default-hitlere.html suggest he was a sapper which you would accept was a front-line role, but also that he was a fantasist and fraud about his combat record and rank, whilst encarta says http://encarta.msn.com/sidebar_701509551/All_Quiet_on_the_Western_Front.html says he was five times wounded and gassed, this needs further research). After the war he changed his last name to Remarque, which had been the family-name until his grandfather. He worked at a number of different jobs, including librarian, businessman, teacher, journalist and editor. Osnabrück is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany, some 80 km NNE of Dortmund, 45 km NE of Münster, and some 100 km due west of Hanover. ... The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ... “The Great War ” redirects here. ...


In 1929, Remarque published his most famous work, All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues) under the name Erich Maria Remarque (changing his middle name in honor of his mother), the novel described the utter cruelty of the war from the perspective of a twenty-year-old soldier. A number of similar works followed; in simple, emotive language they realistically described wartime and the postwar years. An opposite view is found in Storm of Steel (In Stahlgewittern) by Ernst Jünger. For the films, see All Quiet on the Western Front (1930 film) and All Quiet on the Western Front (1979 film). ... Storm of Steel (in German: In Stahlgewittern, ISBN 0865273103) is the memoir of German officer Ernst Jüngers experiences on the Western Front during the First World War. ... Ernst Jünger as a soldier in World War I Ernst Jünger, (March 29, 1895 – February 17, 1998) was a German author of novels and accounts of his war experiences. ...


In 1933, the Nazis banned and burned Remarque's works, and issued propaganda stating that he was a descendant of French Jews and that his real last name was Kramer, his original name spelled backwards. This is still listed in some biographies despite the complete lack of proof. He had been living in Switzerland since 1931, and in 1939 he emigrated to the United States of America with his first wife, Ilsa Jeanne Zamboui, whom he married and divorced twice, and they became naturalized citizens of the United States in 1947. In 1948 he went to Switzerland, where he spent the rest of his life. He married the Hollywood actress Paulette Goddard in 1958 and they remained married until his death in 1970 at age 72. He is interred in the Ronco cemetery in Ronco, Ticino, Switzerland, where Goddard is also interred. Goddard left a bequest of $20m to New York University to fund an institute for European study which is named after Remarque. National Socialism redirects here. ... Naturalization is the process whereby a person becomes a national of a nation, or a citizen of a country, other than the one of his birth. ... ... Paulette Goddard (June 3, 1910 – April 23, 1990), an Oscar-nominated American film and theatre actress. ... Ronco sopra Ascona is a small village near Locarno, Switzerland. ... This article is about the Swiss canton Ticino. ...


Work

His books have been translated into at least 58 languages. This was Erich Maria Remarques first novel. ... All Quiet on the Western Front is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I, about the horrors of that war and also the deep detachment from German civilian life felt by many men returning from the front. ... For the films, see All Quiet on the Western Front (1930 film) and All Quiet on the Western Front (1979 film). ... All Quiet on the Western Front is the name of two films based on the Erich Maria Remarque novel All Quiet on the Western Front, one a cinematic treatment directed by Lewis Milestone, the other a television film directed by Delbert Mann. ... The Road Back ( Der Weg zurück ) is a novel by German author Erich Maria Remarque, written in 1931. ... Three Comrades is a novel written in 1937 by the German author Erich Maria Remarque describing the lives of three disillusioned German First World War veterans in 1928 Berlin. ... Three Comrades is a 1938 film which tells the story of the friendship of three young German soldiers following World War I. It stars Robert Taylor, Margaret Sullavan, Franchot Tone, Robert Young, Guy Kibbee, Lionel Atwill and Monty Woolley. ... In the Arch of Triumph (1946), Erich Maria Remarque, the author of All Quiet on the Western Front, writes about stateless refugees life in Paris before World War II. The novel was originally published in German. ... Arch of Triumph is a 1948 US war romance film starring Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer and Charles Laughton. ... Arch of Triumph is a 1985 British made-for-television film by Harlech Television. ... The Black Obelisk is a novel written in 1956 by the German author Erich Maria Remarque. ... Full Circle is a 1956 play by Erich Maria Remarque. ... 1978 film based on the book Heaven has no favourites (Der Himmel kennt keine Günstlinge) by Erich Maria Remarque. ... Erich Maria Remarques 1962 novel The Night in Lisbon is a story of two lovers whose lives are destroyed by war, human errors and bad luck. ...


Further reading

  • Mariana Parvanova, "... das Symbol der Ewigkeit ist der Kreis." Eine Untersuchung der Motive in den Romanen von Erich Maria Remarque. Tenea, Berlin, ISBN 3-86504-028-4 (in German)

See also

The Erich Maria Remarque Institute is an institute under the auspices of New York University that focuses on contemporary Europe. ...

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Persondata
NAME Remarque, Erich Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Remark, Erich Paul
SHORT DESCRIPTION German Novelist
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück, Germany
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1970
PLACE OF DEATH Locarno, Switzerland

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Erich Maria Remarque - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (379 words)
Erich Maria Remarque (June 22, 1898 – September 25, 1970) was the pseudonym of Erich Paul Remark, a German author.
Erich Paul Remark was born in Osnabrück into a working-class Roman Catholic family.
In 1929, Remarque published his most famous work, All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues) under the name Erich Maria Remarque (changing his middle name in honor of his mother), the novel described the utter cruelty of the war from the perspective of a nineteen-year-old soldier.
Author: Erich Maria Remarque (527 words)
Erich Maria Remarque is one of the best known and most widely read authors of German literature in the twentieth century.
Remarque's biography is essentially marked and his writing fundamentally influenced by German history of the twentieth century: Childhood and youth in imperial Osnabrück, World War I, the Weimar Republic, and most of all his exile in Switzerland and the United States.
The complete works of Remarque are both highly interrelated with his Osnabrück background and speaking thematically of a critical examination of German history, whereby the preservation of human dignity and humanity in times of oppression, terror and war always was at the forefront of his literary creation.
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