A year ago it was bruited that the primary character in Erich Maria Remarque's new novel was based on the Marquis Alfonso De Portago, the Spanish nobleman who died driving in the Mille Miglia automobile race of 1957.

All Quiet on the Western Front () is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I.

At the very beginning of the book Erich Maria Remarque says " This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it.

Category: Novels by Erich Maria Remarque

The phrase " death of one man is a tragedy, death of a million is a statistic " is sometimes attributed to Stalin, but was actually made by the German writer and pacifist Erich Maria Remarque.

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The sequel to Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, which Universal had filmed in 1930, the novel and film follow the lives of several young German men who have returned from the trenches of World War I and their struggles to re-integrate into society.

" This generation included distinguished artists such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, T. S. Eliot, John Dos Passos, Waldo Peirce, Isadora Duncan, Abraham Walkowitz, Alan Seeger, and Erich Maria Remarque.

Finally, the immensely traumatic nature of the experience dashed basic assumptions: realism seemed bankrupt when faced with the fundamentally fantastic nature of trench warfare, as exemplified by books such as Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front ( 1929 ).

His depictions of legless and disfigured veterans — a common sight on Berlin's streets in the 1920s — unveil the ugly side of war and illustrate their forgotten status within contemporary German society, a concept also developed in Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front.

Writers such as Alfred Döblin, Erich Maria Remarque and the brothers Heinrich and Thomas Mann presented a bleak look at the world and the failure of politics and society through literature.

* Erich Maria Remarque – novelist ( All Quiet on the Western Front )

A major seller was All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque.

* January 29 – All Quiet on the Western Front ( Im Westen nichts Neues ), by Erich Maria Remarque, is published in book form.

* June 22 – Erich Maria Remarque, German writer ( d. 1970 )

Some of the University's better-known students include: Christian Doppler, Kurt Adler, Franz Alt, Bruno Bettelheim, Rudolf Bing, Lucian Blaga, Josef Breuer, F. F. Bruce, Elias Canetti, Ivan Cankar, Otto Maria Carpeaux, Felix Ehrenhaft, Mihai Eminescu, Paul Feyerabend, Heinz Fischer, O. W. Fischer, Ivan Franko, Sigmund Freud, Alcide De Gasperi, Ernst Gombrich, Kurt Gödel, Erich Göstl, Franz Grillparzer, Jörg Haider, Edmund Husserl, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Marie Jahoda, Elfriede Jelinek, Percy Lavon Julian, Karl Kautsky, Elisabeth Kehrer, Hans Kelsen, Rudolf Kirchschläger, Arthur Koestler, Jernej Kopitar, Karl Kordesch, Karl Kraus, Bruno Kreisky, Richard Kuhn, Paul Lazarsfeld, Gustav Mahler, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Lise Meitner, Gregor Mendel, Franz Mesmer, Franc Miklošič, Alois Mock, Matija Murko, Pope Pius III, Maxim Podoprigora, Hans Popper, Karl Popper, Otto Preminger, Wilhelm Reich, Peter Safar, Mordkhe Schaechter, Arthur Schnitzler, Albin Schram, Wolfgang Schüssel, Joseph Schumpeter, Theodor Herzl, John J. Shea, Jr., Adalbert Stifter, Yemima Tchernovitz-Avidar, Kurt Waldheim, Otto Weininger, Stefan Zweig, and Huldrych Zwingli.

The film's critique of the romantic idealization of duty is comparable to that in the earlier film All Quiet on the Western Front ( 1930 ), based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque.

Milestone won his second Academy Award for All Quiet on the Western Front, a harrowing screen adaptation of the antiwar novel by Erich Maria Remarque.

Erich Paul Remarque was born on 22 June 1898 into a working-class family in the German city of Osnabrück to Peter Franz Remark ( b. 14 June 1867, Kaiserswerth ) and Anna Maria ( née Stallknecht ; born 21 November 1871, Katernberg ).

Efforts to raise CHF 6. 2M ($ 7M ), to buy and save the villa of Erich Maria Remarque and Paulette Goddard from most certain demolition are underway.

Eine Untersuchung der Motive in den Romanen von Erich Maria Remarque.

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** Former SS Captain Erich Priebke is retried ; on July 22 he is sentenced to 5 years in prison.

* September 22 – Erich Von Stroheim, Austrian-born motion picture actor & director ( d. 1957 )

* January 22 – Hans Erich Apostel, composer ( d. 1972 )

Erich von Stroheim ( September 22, 1885 – May 12, 1957 ) was an Austrian-born film star of the silent era, subsequently noted as an auteur for his directorial work.

Erich Fried ( 6 May 1921 – 22 November 1988 ) was an Austrian-born poet, writer and translator.

It was not until 22 years later, in 1962, that a bit of music from the film was released on an LP called Music by Erich Wolfgang Korngold.

David Alan Adkisson ( July 22, 1958 – February 10, 1984 ) was an American professional wrestler who competed as " The Yellow Rose of Texas " David Von Erich ( of the Von Erich Family ).

However, the title was returned to Rayne on the July 22 episode of Impact !, when it was declared that there was no proof that the person who had interfered in the match was either Sky or Von Erich.

Hans Erich Apostel ( Born January 22, 1901 in Karlsruhe – died November 30, 1972 in Vienna ) was a German-born Austrian composer of classical music.

Erich Häßler ( April 22, 1899 – December 2, 2005 ) was a German pediatrician and academic from Leipzig, Saxony.

* September 22, Erich von Stroheim, Austrian actor, filmmaker ( d. 1957 )

* June 29 – WWII: The German Eleventh Army under Erich von Manstein takes Sevastopol, although fighting rages until July 9.

* June 9 – Erich von Manstein, German field marshal ( b. 1887 )

* June 10 – Rafael Erich, Prime minister of Finland ( d. 1946 )

* Erich Koch-Weser ( DDP ), 27 March 1920-21 June 1920 ; also Minster of the Interior.

* Jagdgeschwader 71 " Richthofen " ( from 6 June 1959 )— the first jet fighter unit established by the post-World War II German Bundeswehr (" federal defence force "); its founding commander was the most successful air ace in history, Erich Hartmann.

The first functional jetplane was the Heinkel He 178 ( Germany ), flown by Erich Warsitz in 1939, followed by the world's first operational jet aircraft, the Me 262, in July 1942 and world's first jet-powered bomber, the Arado Ar 234, in June 1943.

* Erich von Falkenhayn, Chief of the German General Staff from 1914 to 1916 ; awarded the Pour le Mérite in February 1915 and the oak leaves in June 1915.

There came a moment when Erich Warsitz felt that a series of brief hops in the He 176 had made him familiar with its characteristics and nasty tricks, and he suddenly made up his mind to carry out the first real flight on June 20, 1939.

Goldhagen was born June 30, 1959 in Boston, Massachusetts to Erich and Norma Goldhagen.

Michael Hackbardt, Executive Director of God's Word to the Nations since June 1992, Beck had not completed the Old Testament portion of his Bible prior to his death in 1966, but was awaiting textual suggestions from two colleagues, Elmer Smick, Professor of Old Testament at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary and Erich Kiehl of Concordia Seminary.

It was also at this point that Kerry Von Erich was involved in a motorcycle accident ( June 4, 1986 ) and suffered injuries that later worsened when he attempted to return to the ring too soon ( an attempt said by some observers to have taken place under heavy pressure from Fritz ) and would finally necessitate the amputation of his right foot.

Pringle joined Borne in his feud with Kerry, until June 1990, when Von Erich left for the WWF.

On June 30, 1961, Pat O ' Connor lost the title to Rogers in front of 38, 622 fans at Comiskey Park, a North American professional wrestling attendance record that lasted until the David Von Erich Memorial Parade of Champions in 1984.

In June 1989 Interflug introduced the first Western-built aircraft in the form of three Airbus A310s as its director at the time, Dr. Klaus Henkes, successfully appealed to the then leader of the GDR, SED General Secretary Erich Honecker, to purchase Western aircraft in order to position Interflug as a modern airline.

Matthew Erich " Mancow " Muller ( born 21 June 1966 ) is an American radio and television personality.

However on June 30, 2003, several key employees left Blizzard North to form the new companies Flagship Studios ( 8 moved here including Max Schaefer, Erich Schaefer, David Brevik and Bill Roper ) and Castaway Entertainment ( 9 moved here ).

* Grossadmiral Erich Raeder ( 1 June 1935 – 30 January 1943 ) ( previously Commander-in-Chief of the Reichsmarine from October 1928 )

* 1983: The first wrestling sellout, of more than 17, 000, was on June 17, headlined by Harley Race vs. Kevin Von Erich for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship, and Bruiser Brody and Kerry Von Erich vs. Michael Hayes and Terry Gordy ( two-thirds of the Fabulous Freebirds ).

Erich Koch ( June 19, 1896 – November 12, 1986 ) was a Gauleiter of the Nazi Party ( NSDAP ) in East Prussia from 1928 until 1945.