The Germans loved and hated Remarque.
Erich Maria Remarque is known as the writer of the “lost generation.” He was the one who first portrayed the horrors of war, then shocked the audience. But the fate of the writer has developed in such a way that it was the time to write a novel according to his biography.
The future writer was born in the family portrait of a bookbinder, so from early childhood he had access to any works. When the boy grew older, he began to dream of becoming teachers, but 1916 has made its corrections: Remarque was a soldier. In 1917 he was seriously wounded to end the war remained in the hospital. In 1918, the writer found out about his mother’s death and in her memory, changed his middle name is Paul at Maria.
After the First world war, Remarque is trying to return to normal life, working as a teacher, a seller of tombstones, editor of the journal. Later, his literary characters gets the characters are real people with whom the writer has ever encountered. First wife, Ilse Jutta Remarque of Zambon became the prototype Pat – lover of the protagonist from the novel “Three comrades”.
Real relationship by Erich Maria and his wife was uneasy. After four years of marriage followed by a divorce, then marriage (the only way Lisa was able to go from Germany), and again divorce.
The novel “On the Western front without change” Remark has brought worldwide recognition. The author wrote it literally in one breath – in just 6 weeks. Only in Germany for one year (1929) the book sold 1.5 million copies. In the novel described the horrors and brutality of war through the eyes of a 20-year-old soldier. In 1933 came to power, the Nazis decided that the representative of the German race can’t be decadent mood, they made the Remark “traitor” has deprived of German citizenship and gave a demonstration of the burning of his books.
Erich Maria Remarque started this persecution. The Nazis declared his alleged descendant of French Jews. If he intentionally changed the name of “Kramer” and wrote it on the contrary “remark. And the author just changed the spelling of his surname in the French manner (Remarque). The writer hastily left Germany and settled in Switzerland. For this the Nazis took it out on his sister. In 1943, Elvira Scholz was arrested for anti-Nazi statements. At the trial the woman said: “Your brother, unfortunately, has disappeared, but you can never leave.” Sister Remark was executed on the guillotine.
Being in Switzerland, Erich Maria Remarque met Marlene Dietrich. It was passionate but, at the same time, a painful affair. Windy beauty, then moving away, then closer the writer to himself. In 1939 they together go to Hollywood.
In America Erich Maria Remarque continues to create new works, the Studio ekraniziruet his five novels. It would seem that else is necessary for happiness… but the writer comes depression. From this state it brought a new love – Paulette Godard. Remark called it salvation. Oddly enough, but the three main women in his life were of the same type: large eyes, chiseled figure, penetrating look.
In 1967, the German Ambassador in Switzerland, officially handed the Note to the order of Germany. But the irony is that after the assignment of awards, German citizenship writer never returned. Erich Maria Remarque died on 25 September 1970 at the age of 72 years. Marlene Dietrich sent flowers to the funeral of the writer, but Paulette Godard did not accept them, aware of how violent the novel, Remarque and Marlene Dietrich.
