Remarck Erich Maria Biography

The pacifist and antimilitarist, the personal enemy of Goebbels, a successful collector of painting, famous for Plaiboy, - DW collected famous and not very facts about the famous German writer Ericha Maria Remarke. Having gained world fame after the publication of the anti -war novel "On the Western Front without Changes", to this day it remains one of the most read and quoted German authors.

A brilliant writer, pacifist and antimilitarist, personal enemy Joseph Goebbels, a successful collector of painting, known for Playboy ... What else do you need to know about Erich Maria Remarke? Immediately after school, he was demobilized and sent to the Western Front in June. He did not have to fight for long: at the end of July he was seriously wounded, the fragments of the shell fell into his hand, leg and neck.

Erich Paul spent the rest of the war in the military hospitals of Germany. After the war, the remark begins to work as an editor in the journal Echo Continental. In the year, he decides to write a surname according to the rules of French spelling - Remarque. Despite the world fame of the writer, there are still people who believe that Erich Maria Remarck is a woman. The pacifist and antimilitarist in November of the remark is awarded with an iron cross of the 1st degree.

Having quit from the army at the beginning of the year, he refuses both the order and the honorary sign. The events experienced in the war for life made a pacifist and antimilitarist from a remark. The writer himself always called himself an "apolitical person." In the book, Remarck wanted to describe the experience of generation of young people who, in the summer of the year, with great enthusiasm went to the First World War and returned from it physically or morally crippled.

Remarck began work on Roman in the year. The book was written in six weeks and immediately after publication became a bestseller. In the first year, sales circulations in Germany amounted to 1.5 million copies, the book was translated into 26 languages. In the year in Hollywood, a film was shot on the novel. For Remarus, a special film screening was arranged in Münster. In the year, Remarck was nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature.

But the Nobel Committee rejected his candidacy under the pressure of the German Union of Officers, who believed that the novel "on the Western Front without changes" denigrates the German army and its soldiers, who accused the author of betraying national interests. Goebbels’s personal enemy and the object of hatred of the National Socialists of the anti-war pathos of the book “On the Western Front without Changes” especially annoyed the National Socialists, who gained political force in Germany at that time.

A special hatred of the novel and its author was experienced by a Reichslyaiter on propaganda, Joseph Goebbels. In the year, the Nazis publicly burned a novel among other “anti-people” books, chanting the fire for the literary betrayal of the soldiers of the world war, in the name of educating the combat spirit of the German people! At first he lived in Switzerland, then moved to the United States.

In the year, the National Socialists deprived him of citizenship. In the year, the Nazis executed his younger sister Elfrid Scholts Elfriede Scholz, who remained in the "Third Reich", arrested by denunciation and accused of "outrageously false propaganda in favor of the enemy" and "undermining the country's defense capacity." But you will not be able to slip away. "And he sentenced her to execution on the guillotine.

Erich Maria Remarck only after the war found out about her death. The memory of Elfrida is dedicated to Remarc’s novel “The Spark of Life”. The ban on the novel "On the Western Front without Changes" in the USSR paradoxically the novel "on the Western Front without changes" was banned not only in Nazi Germany, but also in the Soviet Union. The image of German soldiers insulted the secretary of the Central Committee of the party Vyacheslav Molotov.

In a year in a letter to Stalin, he wrote that he was “resolutely against the massive spread of this stupid bourgeois-pacifist literature,” and accused the author of the fact that he was considering “front-line people” only as half-life and half-mines all! Remarque’s novel was removed from the sale.

The new edition was released only a year, after Molotov was removed from the post. Reading a German writer in Russia. So it can be said that every country has its own remark. The famous remark was known not only as a magnificent writer, but also as a conqueror of female hearts. There were beautiful and sad, complete tenderness and longing of letters and telegrams that Remarque sent Marlene Dietrich - the great actress, a movie star and also an emigrant from Nazi Germany.

Letters of Remarque to Dietrich, which he called "Puma", are considered the most delightful documentary novel about love. Here is just one quote: "Sweetheart, granted to God! .. I think we were presented to each other, and at the most suitable time.We were painfully waiting for each other, I want to be with you, and I don’t need anything else. You should know what I am. "Successful collector after the grand success of the novel" on the Western Front without changes "The writer begins to collect antiques and painting.

He gives preference to the work of impressionists. He buys both paintings from the famous art dealer Valter Faylhenfeldt Walter Feilchenfeldt, at the moment Modernists in Europe. The writer delights the work of the field of Cezanne: the collection of painting belonging to the remarks included 18 works of this artist. Over time, the writer becomes the owner of one of the best private collections of painting of that time, the paintings belonging to him are exhibited in the museums of New York, Zurich and many galleries.

After the death of the remark, his collection was sold at auctions. In the year, German director Edward Berger presented his interpretation of the great anti -war drama: the film became the first adaptation of the novel in German. The world premiere took place on the Netflix platform on October 28. The picture won the seven nominations of the British Academy of Cinema and Television Arts BAFTA and was awarded four Oscars, including for the best film in a foreign language and the best soundtrack.

German cinema never knew such success! The German film adaptation on the Western Front without Changes has become the most successful German film photo: Netflix to this day, many statements from Remarque’s novels about life, happiness and love were dismantled for quotes and turned into aphorisms. And some acquired such a frightening relevance that, having seen them outside the context, we can assume that they are written now.

Here are just a few of them: "Over the past ten years, our ears have been so good for us with this propaganda that it was difficult to hear something else. And especially what did not yell in the squares: the voice of doubt and the voice of conscience." For ten years we were isolated, raised in us disgusting, egregious, inhuman and absurd arrogance. We were declared by the nation of the gentlemen, to whom everyone else should serve as slaves "to live and the time to die" "is amazing how much bloodsuckers love to moralize." To what extent our millennial civilization is false and worthless, if she could not even prevent these flows of blood.

Only in the infirmary you see first of all what war is. " We only fulfill our duty. And the order is an order. Yes or not?