Erich Maria Remarque

Erich Paul Remark was born in 1898 in Osnabrück, Germany, the son of a bookbinder. He was drafted into the German army in 1916, at eighteen, and in 1917 he was wounded by shrapnel on the Western Front and spent the rest of the war recovering in hospital. Afterward he worked as a teacher, a stonecutter's assistant, a journalist and an editor, and he later took the name Erich Maria Remarque. His novel All Quiet on the Western Front (1929) follows Paul Bäumer, a young German soldier, and his classmates through the horrors of trench warfare. It sold millions of copies and was made into an Academy Award–winning American film in 1930. The Nazis opposed the book; Remarque left Germany for Switzerland in 1931, his books were burned in 1933, and he was stripped of German citizenship. His sister was executed by the Nazi regime in 1943. He moved to the United States in 1939, becoming a citizen, and wrote further novels, including Three Comrades and Arch of Triumph. He married the actress Paulette Goddard and died in Switzerland in 1970.

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Faith: Born into a working-class Roman Catholic family; the Nazis attacked his Catholic faith. Source: Wikipedia