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Erich Maria Remarque
Osnabrück, Germany
Erich Maria Remarque, born Erich Paul Remark, was a German author, best known for his 1929 anti-war novel "All Quiet on the Western Front", based on his experiences as a conscript…
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Erich Maria Remarque, born Erich Paul Remark, was a German author, best known for his 1929 anti-war novel "All Quiet on the Western Front", based on his experiences as a conscript in Wold War I. When publishing that novel, he changed his middle name in memory of his mother and reverted to the earlier spelling of his family name, which had been changed by his grandfather in the 19th century. His writing was regarded as unpatriotic by the Nazis, and as soon as they came to power they burned his books, so he emigrated to Switzerland. In 1938 the Germans revoked his citizenship, and in 1939 he and his wife left Switzerland for the United States, where they lived until 1948. They then returned to Switzerland. He was married to actress Ilse Jutta Zambona from 1925 to 1930, and they then remarried in 1938 in order to prevent her from being sent back to Germany from Switzerland. They divorced again in 1957, and in 1958 he married actress Paulette Goddard and was married to her until he died in 1970. His first marriage to Zambona was stormy, with both being unfatihful. He had relationships with both Austrian actress Hedy Lamarr and Marlene Dietrich. He wrote some 20 novels, plays, screenplays and collections of short stories.
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2026
The Boots on the Western Front
Movie Writer
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2025
Erich Maria Remarque und Marlene Dietrich - Flucht in die Liebe
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2022
All Quiet on the Western Front
Movie Novel
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1999
Flowers from the Winners
Movie Novel
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1988
Der schwarze Obelisk
Movie Novel
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1986
Posledná zastávka
Movie Theatre Play
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1984
Arch of Triumph
Movie Novel
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1979
All Quiet on the Western Front
Movie Novel
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1977
Bobby Deerfield
Movie Novel
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1971
Die Nacht von Lissabon
Movie Novel
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1962
The Longest Day
Movie Script Consultant
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1962
Das Profil
TV show Self
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1958
A Time to Love and a Time to Die
Movie Professor Pohlmann
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1955
The Last Act
Movie Writer
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1951
Demir Perde
Movie Novel
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1948
Arch of Triumph
Movie Novel
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1947
The Other Love
Movie Story
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1941
So Ends Our Night
Movie Novel
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1938
Three Comrades
Movie Book
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1937
The Road Back
Movie Novel
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1930
All Quiet on the Western Front
Movie Novel
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