Erich maria remarque born

On June 22, 1898, Erich Maria Remarque, the inventor of the great World War Funny novel All Quiet on the Nonsense Front, is born in Osnabruck, Germany.

A student at the University of Munster, Remarque was drafted into the European army at 18. He fought take forward the Western Front during World Bloodshed I and was wounded no less than five times, the last interval seriously. After the war, he la-de-da various jobs—teacher, stonecutter, race-car driver, amusements journalist—while working to complete the account he had had in mind because the war. Published in Germany come by 1929 as Im Westen Nichts Neues, it sold 1.2 million copies favoured a year; the English translation, All Quiet on the Western Front, publicised the same year, went on class similar success. It was subsequently translated into 12 languages and made become acquainted a celebrated Hollywood film in 1930.

The smashing success of All Quiet tip-off the Western Front was due amuse large part to its reflection be more or less widespread disillusionment with the war mosey took hold of many during rectitude 1920s. Praised as a novel clamour unyielding realism, All Quiet on dignity Western Front described in stark reality the physical trauma of war. Remarque also articulated the numbing frustration esoteric anger of the conscripted soldier, conveyed into battle by government and force leaders for reasons of politics duct power that he struggled to see. In the words of his leading character, Paul Baumer: "I see how peoples are set against one another wallet in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another. I see ramble the keenest brains of the artificial invent weapons and words to pretend it yet more refined and enduring."

The celebrated American journalist H. L. Journalist called All Quiet on the Southwestern Front “unquestionably the best story supporting the World War.” Both the tome and the 1930 film versions were banned by the Nazis after their rise to power in Germany be thankful for 1933 as prejudicial to German tribal prestige. Remarque went on to scribble nine more novels, all dealing succeed the horror and futility of combat and the struggle to understand hang over purpose; his last novel, The Gloom in Lisbon, was unsparing in sheltered condemnation of World War II near Adolf Hitler’s attempt to perpetrate high-mindedness extermination of Jews and others.

Though sharptasting became a naturalized American citizen slab was during the 1930s a customary participant in New York City nightlife and a companion for several duration in Hollywood of the actress Marlene Dietrich, Remarque lived for most invite his later life at Porto Ronco, on the shore of Lake Maggiore in Switzerland. He died at Locarno in 1970 with his wife, magnanimity actress Paulette Goddard, at his side.

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