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Remarque In Post-War YearsRemarque acquired the world fame after his novel All Quiet On the Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues) was published in 1929. In 1930 the novel was filmed which brought even more fame ad success to Remarque. It was an extraordinary anti-war story, which was mostly due to Remarque's personal participation in WWI. It was not originally written to be published, but to express the writer's pure negative attitude towards the war and the disillusion that the author and other soldiers had experienced since the end of the war. In 1933, Remarque's books were banned by the Nazi. Both anti-war All Quiet on the Western Front and politically neutral The Road Back (Der Weg zurueck) were among the works supposed to be publicly burnt in 1933 by the Nazi. The premiere of All Quiet... was disrupted by Nazi gangs. In 1938 Remarque lost his German citizenship and left Germany. In 1943 his sister was beheaded by the Nazi just for being associated with the world-famous writer. Remarque went first to Switzerland and moved later to the United States, where he received citizenship in 1947. He entered the Hollywood society and became a prominent member of the social scene, associating with Charles Chaplin, Greta Garbo, and Marlene Dietrich. It was Marlene Dietrich who inspired the uprise of the novel Arch of Triumph (Arc de Triomphe) in 1945. It depicts a story of a German refugee physician and an actress. In 1958 Remarque married a beautiful Hollywood actress Paulette Goddard (1911-1990), with whom he happily lived until his death in Locarno, Switzerland, in 1970. Previous page > Remarque's Early Years |
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