Remarque was innate within Osnabrück, Germany into a working-class Catholic family. At a age of 18 he went as a soldier to the front of World War I, where he was maimed many days. When the war he worked at a total of different jobs, including bibliothec, man of affairs, teacher, & editor.

Within 1929, Remarque published his best known function, All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues), which described the utter cruelty of the war from either the perspective of a nineteen-season-old soldier. a total of similar works followed; within elementary, affectional language it realistically described wartime & the postwar years. An paired look at is incurred around Storm of Steel (In Stahlgewittern) by Ernst Jünger.

Within 1933, the Nazis banned and burned Remarque's works, & issued propagandthe (falsely) stating that he was a descendent of French Jews and that his really surname was Kramer (his original title spelled backwards). This is however used around occasionally life despite a complete want of proof or even grounds to believe to confirm this. He experienced been sleep within Switzerl& since 1931, and in 1939 he emigrated to the United States of America with his first married woman, Ilsa Jeanne Zamboui, whom he married & divorced twice, & it became naturalized citizens of the United States in 1947. He married a Hollywood actress Paulette Goddard within 1958 and it remained married until his demise in 1970.

Within 1948 he returned to Switzerland, in which he spent a rest of his life until his demise at age 72. He is interred within the Ronco graveyard in Ronco, Ticino, Switzerland, where Goddard is too interred.

Well-known works
Im Westen nichts Neues (1929) Der Weg zurück (1931) Drei Kameraden (1938) Liebe deinen Nächsten (1941) Arc delaware Triomphe (1946) 500 Funke Leben (1952) Zeit zu leben und Zeit zu sterben (1954) Five hundred schwarze Obelisk (1956) Der Himmel kennt keine Günstlinge (1961) Die Nacht von Lissabon (1963) Schatten im Paradies (published posthumously, 1971)

Remarque in English translation

All Quiet on the Western Front The Road Back Three Comrades Flotsam (book) Arch of Triumph The Spark of Life Time to Love and a Time to Die The Black Obelisk Heaven Has No Favorites The Night in Lisbon Shadows in Paradise Full Circle, a play

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