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Erich Maria Remarque Quotes
Showing all quotesBirth: | 22nd June, 1898 |
Death: | 25th September, 1970 |
Nationality: | German |
Profession: | Novelist, Soldier, Teacher |
Erich Maria Remarque was born in Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, Germany. He was a German novelist, soldier, and teacher who created many works about the terror of war. His best known novel All Quiet on the Western Front is about German soldiers in the First World War, which was also made into an Oscar-winning movie. During World War I, he was conscripted into the army at the age of 18. After the war he continued his teacher training and worked from 1 August 1919 as a primary school teacher in Lohne. He wrote several novels include: The Dream Room, Station at the Horizon, The Road Back, Three Comrades,  Flotsam, Arch of Triumph, Spark of Life, A Time to Love and a Time to Die, The Black Obelisk, Heaven Has No Favorites, The Night in Lisbon, The Promised Land, and Shadows in Paradise.
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