He was trained in Osnabrück and at a camp on the Lüneburg The University of Münster, but had to enlist in the German army at theĪge of 18. Remarque was "always the best in class", as one of hisĬlosest school friends later recalled. In 1904, at the age of six, Remarque entered theĭomschule (cathedral school), and four years later he moved to the Interest in the occult, the family had a piano, and at one point in his Although Franz Remarkĭid not show much interest in intellectual activities, except his Remarque's father, was a poorly paid bookbinder. 'Germanized' early in the nineteeth century. His ancestors were French, the family name was No soldier outlives a thousand chances.īut every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck." (in All Quiet on the Western Front )Įrich Maria Remarque was born in Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, into In a bomb-proofĭug-out I may be smashed to atoms and in the open may survive ten That I am still alive as that I might have been hit. Successful, Remarque lived in the shadow of his "big" first book. He focused largely onĮuropean world and values. Most of hisīooks Erich Maria Remarque wrote outside Germany. Of war from the point of view of the ordinary soldiers. All Quiet on the Western Front, 1929), which depicted the horrors A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZĮrich Maria Remarque (1898-1970) - pseudonym for Erich Paul Remark
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