What is Erich Maria Remarque?
{{Infobox Writer | name = Erich Maria Remarque | image = Bundesarchiv Bild 183-R04034, Erich Maria Remarque (cropped).jpg | imagesize = 220px | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1898|6|22}} | birth_place = [[Osnabrück]], [[Germany]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|1970|9|25|1898|6|22}} | death_place = [[Locarno]], [[Switzerland]] | resting_place = [[Westwood Memorial Park Cemetery]] | occupation = [[Novelist]] | nationality = [[German people|German]] | period = | genre = | subject = | movement = | notableworks = ''[[All Quiet on the Western Front]]'' | website = }} '''Erich Maria Remarque''' (22 June 1898 – 25 September 1970) was the [[pseudonym]] of '''Erich Paul Remark''', a [[Germany|German]] [[author]]. == Life == Erich Paul Remark was born in [[Osnabrück]], a city in Lower Saxony, Germany. His parents were of the working-class. The family was [[Roman Catholic]]. When he was eighteen, he had to go to war. The Army sent him the front lines of [[World War I]]. He was wounded there, by stray shell fragments. After the war, he changed his last name to ''Remarque''. This had been the family-name until his grandfather's time. He worked at a number of different jobs. He also took the jobs of librarian, businessman, teacher, journalist and editor, at some time. In 1929, Remarque published his most famous work, ''[[All Quiet on the Western Front]]'' (''Im Westen nichts Neues'') under the name ''Erich Maria Remarque''. He Changed his middle name to honour his mother. The novel described the utter cruelty of the war from the perspective of a twenty-year-old soldier. A number of similar works followed; in simple, emotive language they realistically described wartime and the postwar years. An opposite view is found in ''[[Storm of Steel]]'' (''In Stahlgewittern'') by [[Ernst Jünger]]. In 1933, the [[Nazi]]s banned and burned Remarque's works. They made [[propaganda]] materials. In the materials, they said that he was a descendant of [[French people|French]] [[Jew]]s and that his