On 12 June 1917, he was transferred to the Western Front, 2nd Company, Reserves, Field Depot of the 2nd Guards Reserve Division at Hem-Lenglet. At the age of 16 he made his first attempts at writing: essays, poems, and the beginnings of a novel that was finished later and published in 1920 as The Dream Room (Die Traumbude).Īt 18, Remarque was conscripted into the army. 14 June 1867, Kaiserswerth) and Anna Maria Remark, née Stallknecht (b. But perhaps that is merely because they feel themselves to be more unfortunate than us." "We want to live at any price so we cannot burden ourselves with feelings which, though they might be ornamental enough in peace-time, would be out of place here."Įrich Maria Remarque 'was born on 22 June 1898 in a working-class family in the German city of Osnabrück, the son of Peter Franz Remark (b.
It is said that the military have already fired on a procession of demonstrating workers." "They are more human and more brotherly towards one another, it seems to me, than we are. Men are standing in groups at every corner. A wounded man is being carried off." "The later it gets the more disturbed the city becomes. Women hold their aprons over their faces and go stumbling away. It would be madness to go farther - the machine-gun is covering the square." "The crowd, still shouting, gives way before us.
The square is empty only the streets that lead into it are jammed with people. But to wait for dysentery is not much of a life either." "On the steps is a machine-gun ready for action. "A hospital alone shows what war is." "Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free." "Anyway the war is over so far as they are concerned.
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