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Erich Maria Remarque

1898 - 1970

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Erich Maria Remarque (; German: [ˈeːʁɪç maˈʁiːa ʁəˈmaʁk] ; born Erich Paul Remark; 22 June 1898 – 25 September 1970) was a German novelist. His landmark novel All Quiet on the Western Front (1928), based on his experience in the Imperial German Army during World War I, was an international bestseller which created a new literary genre of veterans writing about conflict. The book was adapted to film several times. Remarque's anti-war themes led to his condemnation by Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels as "unpatriotic". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Erich Maria Remarque is the 96th most popular writer (down from 94th in 2019), the 66th most popular biography from Germany (down from 59th in 2019) and the 8th most popular German Writer.

Erich Maria Remarque is most famous for his novel All Quiet on the Western Front. The novel tells the story of a group of German soldiers fighting in World War I.

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Among writers, Erich Maria Remarque ranks 96 out of 7,302. Before him are Maurice Maeterlinck, Kurt Vonnegut, Giorgio Vasari, Milan Kundera, Heinrich Heine, and Louisa May Alcott. After him are Ursula K. Le Guin, Isaac Asimov, Paulo Coelho, Virginia Woolf, Guy de Maupassant, and Alexandre Dumas fils.

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Among people born in 1898, Erich Maria Remarque ranks 3. Before him are Bertolt Brecht, and Golda Meir. After him are Alvar Aalto, Federico García Lorca, Enzo Ferrari, Sergei Eisenstein, René Magritte, Stefania Turkewich, Umm Kulthum, Zhou Enlai, and Leo Szilard. Among people deceased in 1970, Erich Maria Remarque ranks 5. Before him are Charles de Gaulle, Janis Joplin, Bertrand Russell, and Gamal Abdel Nasser. After him are António de Oliveira Salazar, Sukarno, Abraham Maslow, Yukio Mishima, Jimi Hendrix, Alexander Kerensky, and Max Born.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Erich Maria Remarque ranks 66 out of 7,253. Before him are Jacques Offenbach (1819), Heinrich Hertz (1857), Hannah Arendt (1906), Eva Braun (1912), Æthelwulf, King of Wessex (795), and Heinrich Heine (1797). After him are Konrad Adenauer (1876), Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886), Reinhard Heydrich (1904), Alexandra Feodorovna (1872), Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762), and Erich Fromm (1900).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Erich Maria Remarque ranks 8. Before him are Anne Frank (1929), Hermann Hesse (1877), Friedrich Schiller (1759), Bertolt Brecht (1898), Thomas Mann (1875), and Heinrich Heine (1797). After him are Charles Bukowski (1920), Novalis (1772), Heinrich Böll (1917), Friedrich Hölderlin (1770), Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729), and Nelly Sachs (1891).

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