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In 1933, when the Nazis rose to power, All Quiet on the Western Front became one of the first degenerate books to be publicly burnt; in 1930, screenings of the Academy Award-winning film based on the book were met with Nazi-organized protests and mob attacks on both movie theatres and audience members.
- Erich Maria Remarque
- 1929
About All Quiet on the Western Front. Widely acclaimed as the greatest war novel of all time, this classic tale of a young German soldier’s harrowing experiences in the trenches of World War I is the basis for an Academy Award-winning film. With an introduction by bestselling author Sebastian Faulks.
- Paperback
2023 Winner Film Award in Gold. Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role (Beste darstellerische Leistung - Männliche Hauptrolle) Felix Kammerer
- Erich Maria Remarque based the novel on his own experiences in World War I. Erich Paul Remark was born in Osnabrück, Germany, on June 22, 1898, to Anna Maria and Peter Franz Remark.
- All Quiet on the Western Front isn’t a direct translation of the book’s German title. The Berlin newspaper Vossische Zeitung printed Remarque’s story in serial form in 1928; and the Ullstein Verlag, a German publisher, released it as a book the following January.
- Early American editions were censored. After Little, Brown and Company bought the rights to publish Wheen’s translation in the U.S. in 1929, editors made some updates for two reasons: to abide by obscenity laws, and also to help ensure that the Book of the Month Club would choose it as a future book pick.
- Remarque wrote a sequel. In All Quiet on the Western Front, the soldiers—the young ones in particular—struggle to imagine returning to regular life after the war, and Paul has a tough time just being home on leave.
Feb 19, 2023 · “All Quiet,” a visceral depiction of life and death in the World War I trenches based on Erich Maria Remarque’s classic novel, won Edward Berger the best director award.
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Erich Maria Remarque, Arthur Wesley Wheen (Translator) 4.08. 464,399 ratings18,409 reviews. One by one the boys begin to fall…. In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the ‘glorious war’.
Apr 2, 2024 · All Quiet on the Western Front was one of the many books burned by the Nazi Party after Hitler took power, because of its representation of German soldiers as disillusioned and its perceived negative representation of Germany. The book was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.
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