Erich Maria Remarque
June 22, 1898 – Sept 25, 1970
Erich Maria Remarque
• Born Erich Paul Remark
in Osnabrück, Germany
June 22, 1898 to Peter
and Anna Maria
Remark (both originally
from French families)
• Conscripted into the
German army at age 18
• On June 12, 1917, he
was sent to the
Western Front
On June
26, he was
stationed
between
Torhout
and
Houthulst,
Belgium
On July 31, 1917,
he was wounded by
shrapnel in the left
leg, right arm, and
neck, and was
repatriated to an
army hospital in
Germany where he
spent the rest of
the war
After the war, he held
jobs as a teacher,
librarian, businessman,
journalist, and editor.
When he published All
Quiet in 1928, he
changed his name to
honor his mother and
French heritage and to
disassociate himself
from his earlier
published works.
Nazi propaganda
minister, Joseph
Goebbels, banned and
publically burned
Remarque’s books.
Remarque moved to
Switzerland, and the
Germans continued to try
to decry his writings,
claiming his family were
French Jews named
Kramer, “Remark” spelled
backwards.
In 1938, his German
citizenship was revoked,
and in 1939, he and his
wife Ilse moved to the
United States, where they
became naturalized
citizens in 1947.
In 1943, Remarque’s sister, Elfriede
Scholz, was arrested and found
guilty for “undermining morale”
for saying she thought WWII was
already lost. The court president
said "Ihr Bruder ist uns leider
entwischt—Sie aber werden uns
nicht entwischen" ("Your brother is
unfortunately beyond our reach—
you, however, will not escape us").
She was beheaded on December 16, 1943, and
her sister was sent a bill for 495.80 Reichsmarks to
pay for the prosecution, imprisonment,
and execution.
In 1948 he moved back to Switzerland.
He was known as a playboy
throughout the 1930s and 1940s and
had relationships with Austrian actress
Hedy Lamarr, German-American
actress and singer Marlene Dietrich,
and in 1958 married the American,
Oscar-winning actress Paulette
Goddard.
The author of 20 works, he was married to Goddard until
his death in Locarno, Switzerland on September 25,
1970. She died in 1990 and was buried next to
Remarque.
She left a bequest of $20 million to NYU to establish a
center for European studies, named The Remarque
Institute.
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