Erich Maria Remarque

Born: 1898 | Died: 1970

Writer

Erich Maria Remarque was born Erich Paul Remarque in Osnabrück 1898 in western Germany. He studied at the University in Münster before he was drafted to the army during World War I. He was wounded several times. After the war, he started his writing career as a sports writer.

Remarque is best remembered for his 1929 novel All Quiet on the Western Front. In the book he described the horrors of the war from a view of a soldier at the front in a very realistic and often laconic, almost casual, way. It soon became one of the most read novels of its time.

Other books include Arch of Triumph, A Time to Live and a Time to Die and The Night in Lisbon, most of them dealing with the politics and the effects of the World Wars.

Strongly opposed to the war, Remarque left Germany for Switzerland in 1932 and came to the United States in 1939 after his German citizenship was taken away from him in 1938. He finally took US citizenship in 1947. Remarque died in 1970 in his home at the Lago Maggiore, Switzerland.

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