Erich Maria Remarque

Actor | Writer

Date of birth : 06/21/1898

Date of death : 09/25/1970

City of birth : Osnabrück, Germany

The German novelist Erich Maria Remarque was born in Osnabrück in 1898. His first novel, the famous anti-war epic All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), was written based on his experiences as a soldier in WWI, and published in 1929. He moved to Switzerland until 1939 and later emigrated to the US. He died in 1970 in Locarno, Switzerland.