WRITER

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-born 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Erich Maria Remarque has received more than 3,468,727 page views. His biography is available in 93 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 91 in 2019). Erich Maria Remarque is the 94th most popular writer (up from 103rd in 2019), the 59th most popular biography from Germany (up from 83rd 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

Among writers, Erich Maria Remarque ranks 94 out of 7,302. Before him are Giorgio Vasari, José Saramago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Henry David Thoreau, Jack London, and Toni Morrison. After him are Emily Brontë, Matsuo Bashō, George Sand, Marquis de Sade, Jonathan Swift, and Ismail I.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Erich Maria Remarque ranks 5. Before him are Golda Meir, Bertolt Brecht, René Magritte, and Alvar Aalto. After him are Federico García Lorca, Enzo Ferrari, Sergei Eisenstein, Umm Kulthum, M. C. Escher, Zhou Enlai, and William James Sidis. Among people deceased in 1970, Erich Maria Remarque ranks 6. Before him are Charles de Gaulle, Janis Joplin, Bertrand Russell, Gamal Abdel Nasser, and António de Oliveira Salazar. After him are Abraham Maslow, Jimi Hendrix, Yukio Mishima, Max Born, Sukarno, and Alexander Kerensky.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Erich Maria Remarque ranks 59 out of 7,253. Before him are Josef Mengele (1911), Hildegard of Bingen (1098), Georg Ohm (1789), William I, German Emperor (1797), Klemens von Metternich (1773), and Joseph Goebbels (1897). After him are Reinhard Heydrich (1904), Eva Braun (1912), Gerd Müller (1945), Ambrose (340), Jacques Offenbach (1819), and Konrad Adenauer (1876).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Erich Maria Remarque ranks 8. Before him are Anne Frank (1929), Friedrich Schiller (1759), Hermann Hesse (1877), Thomas Mann (1875), Heinrich Heine (1797), and Bertolt Brecht (1898). After him are Charles Bukowski (1920), Novalis (1772), Heinrich Böll (1917), Eckhart Tolle (1948), Friedrich Hölderlin (1770), and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729).

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