Remarque, Erich Maria

Remarque, Erich Maria
orig. Erich Paul Kramer

born June 22, 1898, Osnabrück, Ger.
died Sept. 25, 1970, Locarno, Switz.

German-born U.S.-Swiss novelist.

Drafted into the German army at age 18, he served in World War I and was wounded several times. He is chiefly remembered for All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), a brutally realistic account of the daily routine of ordinary soldiers and perhaps the best-known and most representative novel about that war. He moved to the U.S. in 1939 and became a U.S. citizen but settled in Switzerland after World War II. His other works include The Road Back (1931), Arc de Triomphe (1946; film, 1948), and The Black Obelisk (1956).

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▪ German writer
pseudonym of  Erich Paul Remark 
born June 22, 1898, Osnabrück, Ger.
died Sept. 25, 1970, Locarno, Switz.
 novelist who is chiefly remembered as the author of Im Westen nichts Neues (1929; All Quiet on the Western Front), which became perhaps the best-known and most representative novel dealing with World War I.

      Remarque was drafted into the German army at the age of 18 and was wounded several times. After the war he worked as a racing-car driver and as a sportswriter while working on All Quiet on the Western Front. The novel's events are those in the daily routine of soldiers who seem to have no past or future apart from their life in the trenches. Its title, the language of routine communiqués, is typical of its cool, terse style, which records the daily horrors of war in laconic understatement. Its casual amorality was in shocking contrast to patriotic rhetoric. The book was an immediate international success, as was the American film made from it in 1930. It was followed by a sequel, Der Weg zurück (1931; The Road Back), dealing with the collapse of Germany in 1918. Remarque wrote several other novels, most of them dealing with victims of the political upheavals of Europe during World Wars I and II. Some had popular success and were filmed (e.g., Arc de Triomphe, 1946), but none achieved the critical prestige of his first book.

      Remarque left Germany for Switzerland in 1932. His books were banned by the Nazis in 1933. In 1939 he went to the United States, where he was naturalized in 1947. After World War II he settled in Porto Ronco, Switz., on Lake Maggiore, where he lived with his second wife, the American actress Paulette Goddard (Goddard, Paulette), until his death.

Additional Reading
Harley U. Taylor, Jr., Erich Maria Remarque: A Literary and Film Biography (1989); Hilton Tims, Erich Maria Remarque: The Last Romantic (2003); Brian Murdoch, The Novels of Erich Maria Remarque (2006).

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