Erich Maria Remarque
(born: 22.06.1898 in Osnabrück; died: 25.09.1970 in Locarno), Author
Erich Maria Remarque (real name Erich Paul Remark) was drafted into the First World War as a soldier in 1916. After the end of the war he worked in various professions and published his debut The Dream Room in 1920. In 1929 All Quiet on the Western Front was published. With this novel, which questions the myth of the heroic military death and focuses on a "lost generation" destroyed by war, Remarque achieved global success. In 1932 he moved to Switzerland, in 1938 he was deprived of German citizenship by the National Socialists, and a year later he immigrated to the United States. With his novel Arch of Triumph, which was published in 1945, translated into many languages and set in the emigrant milieu, he received worldwide attention once again. In 1947 Remarque became an American citizen. The Federal Republic of Germany awarded him the Great Cross of Merit in 1967. Remarque lived in New York and in Ticino, Switzerland, where his grave is located. The number of his novels published during his lifetime was supplemented by posthumous publications. His hometown of Osnabrück has awarded the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize in honour of him since 1991.
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