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Erich Maria Remarque |
| Remarque was born in Osnabrück, Lower
Saxony. His mother was Anna Marie Kramer and father, Peter Maria Kramer, a bookbinder. He
drafted into German army at the age of 18, and was wounded several times. After his
discharge Remarque had taken a teacher's course offered to veterans by the government.
Remarque began his writing career as a sporting journalist, and assistant editor of Sportbild.
Fame came with his first novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, which touched a
nerve of the time. In the 1930s Remarque's books were banned by the Nazis. All Quiet on the Western Front was among the works consigned to be publicly burnt in 1933 by the Nazis. In 1938 Remarque lost his German citizenship, and he left Germany in the late 1930s. First Remarque went to Switzerland and moved later to the United States, where he made friends with Hollywood stars. He died in Locarno, on September 25, 1970. |
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Source - http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/remarque.htm
