A cosmopolite, lover and passionate critic of his times – the major biography of Remarque
With his novels, similarly to Emile Zola, Erich Maria Remarque painted a tremendous moral portrait of his times – an era ruled by war, terror, persecution, violence and lies, in which human values and qualities, love and friendship were always under threat. Remarque’s life was shaped by political circumstances, but also by wealth, countless affairs – with Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo and Elisabeth Bergner, among others – and alcohol. The renowned journalist and author Wilhelm von Sternburg has published the first comprehensive biography of this author, whose books reached print-runs in the millions and have been adapted to the screen repeatedly, and whose colorful life – as sophisticated as it was difficult, politically involved as it was torn – has never before been told as precisely and knowledgably as it is here. With the help of many previously hard-to-obtain materials, including letters and diaries, Sternburg’s biography, brilliantly and vividly written, links Remarque’s life to the history of his work and times.
