Erich Maria Remarque
Short Biography by Date
1898, June 22: Birth of Erich Paul Remark at 8:15 p.m. in
the Osnabrück Provincial Maternity Clinic, the son of Peter Franz Remark (born
June 14, 1867 in Kaiserswerth) and Anna Maria Remark, maiden name Stallknecht
(born November 21, 1871 in Katernberg)
Family residence at Jahnstraße
15. In the years following, numerous moves by the Remarks within Osnabrück
1900, September 6: Birth of sister Erna Remark
1901, October 30: Death of brother Theodor Arthur Remark
(born July 9, 1896 in Osnabrück)
1903, March 25: Birth of sister Elfriede Remark
1904: Elementary School (Cathedral School, Johannis
School) in Osnabrück (until 1908)
1908: Elementary School (Johannis School) in Osnabrück
(until 1912)
1912: Catholic Preparatory School (three-grade
prerequisite to the Catholic Teacher Training College for Elementary Teachers)
in Osnabrück (until 1915)
1915: Close friendship with Fritz Hörstemeier and
Friedrich Vordemberge, Erika Haase, Rudolf Kottman, Fritz Erpenbeck, Bernhard
Nobbe, Hans Ballhausen, Pauline Spencker in “Traumbude” or “dream room” circle,
Liebigstr. 31
July 2: Catholic Royal Teacher
Training College in Osnabrück (until 1919)
1916, June: Publication of Von den Freuden und Mühen
der Jugendwehr (“The Joys and Efforts of the Youth Brigade”) (first
publication)
November 21: Conscription into
the Army. Replacement recruit for a replacement battalion in Infantry Regiment
78, I. Recruit Depot; military training in the Caprivi Barracks, Osnabrück and
in Celle
1917, January 20: One-Year Voluntary Duty Qualifying
Certificate
May 5: Transfer to I. Company,
I. Replacement Battalion, Infantry Regiment 78
June 12: Transfer to the Western
Front, 2. Company Field Recruit Depot of the 2. Guard Reserve Division in
Ham-Lenglet
June 26: Between Thorhut and
Houthulst, trench troop Bethe, 2. Company Reserve Infantry Regiment 15
July 31: Wounded by grenade
fragments in the left leg, right arm, and neck
before August 25 Transfer from
field hospital 309 in Geite-St. Josef and in Thorhut to the St. Vinzenz
Hospital in Duisburg, given a position in the orderly room
September 9: Death of mother
Anna Maria Remark in the Marien Hospital, Osnabrück (cause of death: cancer of
the rectum)
September 13: In Osnabrück for
the burial of his mother in the Hasefriedhof
November: Work on a novel about
the war
1918: Close relationship with Erika Haase
March 6: Death of Fritz Hörstemeiers,
attends burial in Bremen
April: Publication of Ich und
Du in Die Schönheit (2nd publication)
beginning April 12: Remark
family residence on Hakenstraße 3
Summer/Fall: Close relationship
with, and eventually unfulfilled love to Lucile Dietrichs
October 31: Discharged from the
Duisburg hospital, reassigned to the 1. Replacement Battalion, Infantry
Regiment 78 in Osnabrück
November 15: Awarded the Iron
Cross, First Class, in Duisburg, confirmation by the Workers and Soldiers
Council of Osnabrück
1919, January: Continuation of education at the Catholic
Teacher Training College for Elementary Teachers, spokesperson of the Catholic
Teacher Training College student body, and representative of their interests
with Hanns-Gerd Rabe in Hannover and Berlin
January 5: Discharged from the
Army, renunciation of medals and decorations
February 14: Second marriage of
father, Peter Franz Remark, to Maria Anna Henrika Bahlmann (born February 26,
1872 in Cloppenburg)
June: Organization of the
“Rosenfest” or Rose Festival in the Piesberg Society House, Osnabrück-Eversburg
June 25: Teaching Exam for
Elementary School
August 1: Teacher in Lohne near
Lingen (until March 31, 1920)
1920: Die Traumbude. Ein Künstlerroman. Dresden: Die Schönheit (publisher)
May 4: Teacher in
Klein-Berssen/Hümmling (until July 31)
August 20: Teacher in Nahne near
Osnabrück (until November 20)
November 20: Resigns from
teaching
Odd jobs in Osnabrück as
salesman, bookkeeper, gravestone salesman, piano teacher, organist
1921: Close relationship with the actress Ida-Lotte
(Lolott) Preuß
beginning in March: Theater
critic for the Osnabrücker Tageblatt and the Osnabrücker
Landeszeitung
early in the year: First
assignments for the magazine Echo Continental of the Continental Rubber
Company
March 10: First known reference
to the name Erich Maria Remarque (letter from Echo Continental, signed
Erich Maria Remarque)
June: Desperate letter about the
future of being an author, written to Stefan Zweig
1922, April 29 Change of residence to Hannover. There as
advertising copywriter and editor of the magazine Echo Continental of
the Continental Rubber Company
1923: Work on Gam. Roman (until 1924)
June: Editor responsible for the
“entire contents” of the Echo Continental
1924, February: Publication of essays entitled Über das
Mixen kostbarer Schnäpse (“On the Mixing of Precious Schnapps”) in Störtebeker
(Hannover)
May: Foreword to the exhibition
catalog of the constructivist Hannover Gruppe K (Hans Nitzschke, Friedel
Vordemberge)
October 9: First meeting with
Edith Doerry, daughter of Sport im Bild founder Kurt Doerry, in
Hannover, who arranges for Remarque to come to Berlin
1925: Apartment in Berlin-Charlottenburg, Kaiserdamm 114
January 1: Editor for Sport
im Bild. Das Blatt für die gute Gesellschaft (“The Paper for Good Society”)
(Scherl-Verlag in Hugenberg-Konzern) in Berlin
October 14: First marriage to
Ilse Jutta “Jeanne” Zambona, divorced name Winkelhoff (born August 25, 1901 in
Hildesheim)
1926: “Purchase” of the noble title “Baron of Buchenwald”
for allegedly 500 Reichsmarks by means of adoption through the impoverished
noble Hugo von Buchenwald
1927, February 1: Left the Catholic church, along with
Ilse Jutta Zambona
Fall/Winter: Work on Im
Westen nichts Neues
November 25: Beginning of the
preprint of Station am Horizont, which appears as a serialized novel in Sport
im Bild (until February 17, 1928)
1928, March: Rejection of Im Westen nichts Neues by
the S. Fischer publishing company
August: Acceptance of Im
Westen nichts Neues by Ullstein, contract agreed upon
August 3: Editor responsible for
the “editorial content” of Sport im Bild
November 10: Preprinting of Im
Westen nichts Neues in the Vossische Zeitung (until December 9)
November 15: Resigns without
giving notice from Sport im Bild
1929, January 29: Im Westen nichts Neues published
as a book. Berlin: Propyläen Verlag
February: Close relationship
with Brigitte Neuner (until 1931)
In Davos (until April),
acquaintance with Rudolf Herzog and Kasimir Edschmid
April: Appearance of the alleged
birth name “Kramer” in the nationalistic press
August 30: Visit to Harry Graf
Kessler
September: Björnstjerne Björnson
suggests Remarque for the Nobel prize in literature
October: Trip with Georg
Middendorf from Osnabrück via Koblenz to Paris
November: First stay in the
Hoberg House in Osnabrück, work on Der Weg zurück
1930, Beginning of the year: Start of close relationship
with Ruth Albu (until 1932). By suggestion of Ruth Albu, purchase of art pieces
and painting. Beginning of acquaintance and friendship with art dealer Walter
Feilchenfeldt.
January 4: First divorce from
Ilse Jutta Zambona
January 24: In Arosa and Davos
(until March) with Ilse Jutta Zambona and Felicitas von Reznicek
March 29: Initial publication of
Der Feind as The Enemy in Collier’s (Springfield, OH);
followed by five additional narratives on World War One in Collier’s
until 1931
April 29: Premier of All
Quiet on the Western Front (film adaptation of Im Westen nichts Neues;
Lewis Milestone, director)
July: Second stay in the Hoberg
House in Osnabrück (until September), work on Der Weg zurück, meeting
with Ruth Albu
October: In Paris for contract
negotiations
mid-November: Remarque sees the
film version of Im Westen nichts Neues in a specially-arranged viewing
just for him in Osnabrück
December: In Osnabrück, work on Der
Weg zurück
December 4: German premier of All
Quiet on the Western Front in Berlin, massive disruptions through the
National Socialists under the leadership of Joseph Goebbels
December 7: Preprinting of Der
Weg zurück in the Vossische Zeitung (until January 29, 1931)
December 11: Banning of the film
Im Westen nichts Neues through the Film Review Office in Berlin
1931: Suggested for the Nobel Peace prize by the Warsaw
Law Professor Sigismond Cybichowski and by N.M. Butler
January 26: Participation, by
way of a written statement, against the film ban of Im Westen nichts Neues
at a Berlin protest event of the German League for Human Rights: “Remarque and
Reality”
April: On the Cote d’Azur:
Cannes, Cap d’Antibes, Monte Carlo for the Monaco Grand Prix
April 30: Der Weg zurück
published as book. Berlin: Propyläen Verlag
Summer: In Heidelberg with Ruth
Albu
August 20: By suggestion from
Ruth Albu, purchase of Villa “Casa Monte Tabor” in Porto Ronco on Lago Maggiore
(Tessin, Switzerland)
1932: Work on Pat (preliminary stage of Drei
Kameraden)
April: Confiscation of a RM
20,000 bank account, after suspicion is raised following transfer of permanent
residency to the Netherlands and a breach of foreign exchange regulations.
since April: Residency in Porto
Ronco, mostly with Ilse Jutta Zambona
Beginning of acquaintance with
Emil and Elga Ludwig (numerous meetings in the next few years in Porto Ronco),
thereafter acquaintances with Jacob and Martha Wasserman, Thomas Mann, Ernst
Toller, Carl Zuckmeyer, Else Lasker-Schüler, Fritz von Unruh, Ludwig Renn and
other artists and authors in Switzerland
August 23: Prosecuted for breach
of foreign exchange regulations at the Berlin-Mitte Court, punishment is a fine
of RM 30,000 or 60 days in jail. Fine totaling RM 33,000 paid by EMR
October: In Rome
November: In Berlin, Hotel
Majestic, Brandenburgischer Straße (until the end of January 1933)
Cooperation with agent Otto
Klement
1933, End of January: Completion of work on Pat
(preliminary stage of Drei Kameraden)
Spring: Remarque provides
shelter to emigrants from Germany in Porto Ronco (including Hans Sochaczewer)
Beginning of May: Jewish
journalist Felix Manuel Mendelssohn is found dead on the property of “Casa
Monte Tabor,” believed to be the result of a national socialist assassination
May 10: Public burning of
Remarque’s books in Berlin: “For literary betrayal of soldiers of the world
war, in order to educate the people on how to fight back!”
November 20: Confiscation of Im
Westen nichts Neues and Der Weg zurück (December 12) by the secret
police
1934, January 20 Initial publication of Unterwegs
as On the Road in Collier’s
March: Work on Drei Kameraden
1935: National Secretary Hermann Göring’s Secretary of
State Körner visits Remarque in Porto Ronco and pleads with him to return to
Germany; rejected by Remarque
Lengthy trip to Salzburg and
Venice
June: In Paris, participates in
the Exiled-Author Convention
December: In Paris (until
January 1936)
1936: Close relationship with Margot von Opel (“E”)
April 1: Sentenced by the court
in Charlottenburg in a lawsuit by the German Collateral Loan Agency
May: With Margot von Opel in
Budapest (until May 22)
May 25: Return to Vienna,
meeting with Ruth Albu
June 12: Trip with Margot von
Opel to Venice, on the Lago di Gardo, Abbazzia/Opatija, Istria and
Laurana/Lovran, Istria (until June 24)
December: First edition of Drei
Kameraden: Kammerater. Copenhagen: Gyldendal
1937, January 19 Preprinting of Drei Kameraden as Three
Comrades in Good Housekeeping (until May 30)
June 17: Premier of The Road
Back (film adaptation of Der Weg zurück; James Whale, director)
June 29: Receipt of passport to
the Republic of Panama for Remarque and Ilse Jutta Zambona (issued on June 9
through the consulate in Athens)
Beginning of September: In
Venice; beginning of a close relationship with Marlene Dietrich, acquaintance
with Josef von Sternberg
October: In Paris (until
December)
December: In Vienna
1938: German edition of Drei Kameraden. Amsterdam: Querido
January 22: Second marriage to
Ilse Jutta Zambona in St. Moritz
April 9: Beginning of work on Liebe
Deinen Nächsten
May: In Paris (until June)
May 20: Premier of Three
Comrades (film adaptation of Drei Kameraden; Frank Borzage,
director)
July: In Antibes with Marlene
Dietrich and her clan; meeting with Ruth Albu
July 4: Expatriation from
Germany
November 19: Expatriation of
Ilse Jutta Zambona
December: In Porto Ronco (until
February 1939)
December 9: Beginning of work on
Arc de Triomphe
1939, February First draft of Liebe Deinen Nächsten
completed
March 23: Arrival in New York. Further
travel by train via Chicago to Los Angeles (until June)
May 8-10: Participation, presumably
through a written contribution, on the “World Congress of Writers” of the
American Center of the International PEN in New York, in the section “How can
culture survive exile?”
June 13: Arrival in New York
June 22: In Paris (until July
25)
July 4-8: Last time in Porto
Ronco before emigration to the USA
after July 26: In Antibes with
Marlene Dietrich and her clan (until the end of August)
July 8: Preprinting of Liebe
Deinen Nächsten as Flotsam in Collier’s (until September 23)
August 29: Arrival in Paris,
further travel on the “Queen Mary” to New York. Further travel via Chicago,
arrival in Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, Beverly Hills Hotel (September 13)
In Los Angeles, close
relationship with Marlene Dietrich; close friendship with Josef von Sternberg,
Maria “Kater” Dietrich-Sieber, Elisabeth Bergner and Paul Czinner, Dagmar
Godowsky, Elsie Mendl; Otto Klement (agent); acquaintance with Greer Garson,
Orson Welles, Igor Strawinsky, Arthur Rubinstein, Lion Feuchtwanger, Emil
Ludwig, Thomas Mann, Bertolt Brecht, Cary Grant, Luggi Wolff and Brigitte
Neuner-Wolff and numerous other persons, mainly from the film industry and
German emigrants
Work on Arc de Triomphe
October 22: Arrival of Ilse
Jutta Zambona in New York, internment on Ellis Island; beginning of friendship
with Ruth Marton
1940, March 2 With Ilse Jutta Zambona in Mexico City to
obtain a residency permit for the USA (until April 3)
April: Cooperation on film
projects
April 23; Move into house on
1050 Hilts Avenue, Westwood, Los Angeles
June 19: First encounter with
Paulette Goddard
September 28: First encounter
with Greta Garbo
November: Beginning of work on
the filming of Beyond
November/December: End of close
relationship with Marlene Dietrich
November 21: Certification d’identité
from the Swiss authorities
December 13: Arrival in New
York, Sherry Netherland Hotel
1941, January 12 Beginning of close relationship with
Natasha Paley Brown
January 21: Premier of So
Ends Our Night (film adaptation of Liebe Deinen Nächsten; John
Cromwell, director)
February 20: Departs New York. Travels
via Chicago to Los Angeles
March 31: Publication of Liebe
Deinen Nächsten: Flotsam. Boston: Little, Brown
April 14: Beginning of close
relationship with Greta Garbo (until May 25)
May 4: Radio appearance
(interview or speech) at a California radio station
May 8-9: In San Diego and San
Ysidro, Tijuana, Mexico to extend visa
Work on Arc de Triomphe
June: Close relationship with
Frances Cain (until October)
July/August: Collaborates on a
script for Elisabeth Bergner (dialogue revision)
September 8: Close relationship
with Lupe Velez (until March 26, 1942); attends boxing matches almost daily
German publication of Liebe
Deinen Nächsten. Roman. Stockholm: Bermann-Fischer
October 8: Application for
residency in the city of Los Angeles
1942, January 15: Move into the Beverly Wilshire Hotel
March: Exhibit with works from
Remarque’s art collection at the Los Angeles County Museum
March 27: Beginning of curfew:
ban on going out in the evening as well as a ban on travel further than 5 miles
from one’s residence
May 14-15: Collaboration with
the European Film Fund, an organization to support emigrants to the USA who
lack other means of support
June 15: Beginning of close
relationship with Vera Zorina (until July 8)
August 13: First encounter and
friendship with Franz Werfel and Alma Mahler-Werfel
August 15: Draft Board
Registration, classified as 3A, married
September: Meeting with the
staff of US Vice President Wallace to discuss possible anti-fascist work
October 28: Departs Los Angeles
for New York, Sherry Netherland Hotel
In New York, friendships and
acquaintances with Sam Salz (art dealer, meet nearly every day), Terence Philip
and Toni Hollingsworth, Elisabeth Bergner, Elsie Mendl, Elsa Maxwell, Dr.
Graefenberg, Carl Zuckmayer, Rudolf Sieber, Greta Garbo, Fritz von Unruh,
Dorothy Thompson, Gloria Swanson and other persons, including many Russian and
German emigrants, persons from the theater; regular meetings with Ilse Jutta
Zambona
November 21: Resumption of close
relationship with Natasha Paley Wilson (married to the theater director Jack
Wilson)
December 16-17: In Washington,
renewed discussion with Vice President Wallace and his staff
1943, April After an interruption of many months, resumes
work on Arc de Triomphe
August 20: Move into the
Ambassador Hotel
September 13: Arrival in Los
Angeles, Beverly Wilshire Hotel
October 8: Final move to New
York
October 18: Opening of the “Loan
Exhibition” from Remarque’s art collection in the Knoedler Galleries, New York
December 16: Elfriede Remark
(married name Scholz) sentenced to death (October 30) by the Nazi’s People’s
Court for “undermining military force” and beheaded by axe in Berlin-Plötzensee
1944, June: Attempt by the Office of Strategic Services to
convince Remarque to become active in propaganda work in Europe
August 25: First draft of Arc
de Triomphe completed
September 27: Beginning of work
on Practical Educational Work in Germany after the War (“Praktische
Erziehungsarbeit in Deutschland nach dem Krieg”), memorandum for the American
secret service OSS about the possibilities and methods for the political
education of Germans after the collapse of fascism
1945, January Beginning of work on Zeit zu leben und
Zeit zu sterben, further work on Arc de Triomphe
September 15: Preprinting of Arc
de Triomphe as Arch of Triumph in Collier’s (until October
20)
September 26: Suicide of
stepmother Maria Anna Henrika Bahlmann in Aschendorf near Bad Rothenfelde
December: First edition of Arc
de Triomphe: Arch of Triumph. New York: Appleton-Century
1946, April Sworn affidavit in reference to tax questions
through the New York legal authorities
May: German edition of Arc de
Triomphe. Roman. Zürich: Micha
June 11: News of the murder of
Elfriede Scholz (maiden name Remark), received 2 1/2 years after the fact
July: Beginning of work on Der
Funke Leben
July: Beginning of cooperation
with Harriet Pilpel from Greenbaum, Wolff & Ernst, regarding financial and
contractual questions
Acquaintance with Salvador Dali,
Oskar Homolka, Hermann Broch, friendship with Friedrich Torberg
1947, March 27 Premier of The Other Love
(film adaptation of Beyond; André de Toth, director)
July: First drafts of Zeit zu
leben und Zeit zu sterben and Der Funke Leben completed
August 7: Application for US
citizenship along with Ilse Jutta Zambona (Naturalization No. 67/0597, Petition
No. 54/657)
1948, February 16 Premier of Arch of Triumph (film
adaptation of Arc de Triomphe; Lewis Milestone, director)
May 19: Return to Europe after 9
years of exile in the USA. Arrival in Le Havre, further travel to Paris, Hotel
Georges V., meeting there with Natasha Paley
May 29: Departure from Paris for
Porto Ronco (June 2), via Basel and Zürich, meeting there with his father,
Peter Franz Remark
July 11: In Rome (until July
26), meeting there with Natasha Paley
October 21: Arrival in New York,
Ambassador Hotel
November 9: Seriously ill with
Ménière’s Syndrome (until mid-December)
1949, March Work on Der Funke Leben
April: Court case in Los Angeles
against Enterprise Production (production company of Arch of Triumph)
for defaulting on a $10,000 payment
May 21: In Paris, Hotel
Lancaster (until May 27); meeting there with Walter and Marianne Feilchenfeldt
and Natasha Paley; further travel via Zürich to Porto Ronco (May 29)
July 12: Trip via Milan to Rome,
Hotel Excelsior (until July 19); meeting there with Natasha Paley
August 13: First encounter with
Karen Horney
August 31: First idea for Die
Nacht von Lissabon
September: Work on Der Funke
Leben
September 19: In Zürich with
Ellen Janssen, meeting there with Peter Remark
September 27: Departure for
Paris, Hotel Lancaster
September 30: Departure from Le
Havre for New York, Ambassador Hotel, with Ilse Jutta Zambona
1950, April 25 End of close relationship with Natasha
Paley, after nearly 10 years
May/June: Work on Der Funke
Leben
May 27: Arrival in Paris, Hotel
Lancaster, further travel via Basel to Porto Ronco (May 31)
June 22: In Basel and Mulhouse;
meeting there with Peter Remark
Close friendship with Karen and
Brigitte Horney
July 13: First therapy session
with Karen Horney, further continuing sessions until Karen Horney’s departure
on September 6; at the same time, strongly influenced by the “clairvoyant”
Helma Wink
July 18: First notes for Schatten
im Paradies
Writes poetry
August 15: Beginning of
self-analysis based on Karen Horney’s psychoanalysis (“important important
day”)
October 20: Olga Ammann replaces
Ellen Janssen as secretary
November 4: Work on Der Funke
Leben
November 16: In New York,
Ambassador Hotel
Continuation of therapy with
Karen Horney
December 14: Beginning of
collaboration with agent Felix Guggenheim
Acquaintance with Arthur Koestler
1951, March 26: Encounter with Soma Morgenstern
May 4: Beginning of close
relationship with Paulette Goddard (born June 3, 1910 as Marion Goddard Levy)
June: Work on the translation of
Der Funke Leben into English
June 1: Moves out of the
Ambassador Hotel (after nearly 8 years) and into an apartment at 320 East 57th
Street, 15th floor
June 14: In Paris, Hotel
Lancaster, further travel via Basel to Porto Ronco (June 23)
December: Work on Zeit zu
leben und Zeit zu sterben
1952, January First edition of Der Funke Leben: Spark
of Life. New York: Appleton-Century
Renewed attack of Ménière’s
Syndrome
April 24: Arrival in New York
July: German edition of Der
Funke Leben. Roman. Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Witsch
July 5: Arrival in Rotterdam,
further travel to Amsterdam, Hotel Pays-Bas, meeting with Henri van der Velde;
July 10: further travel to Osnabrück, visit with father Peter Franz Remark and
sister Erna, married name Rudolph, in Bad Rothenfelde; July 12: further travel
via Hannover to Berlin, Hotel Steinplatz; July 22: further travel to Munich,
meeting there with Kurt Desch, Theodor Plievier, Erich Kästner and
Hans-Hellmuth Kirst (July 24); July 26: Departs Munich for Porto Ronco, via
Zürich
September: Work on Die
Heimkehr des Enoch J. Jones
September 18: In Venice, Hotel
Danieli with Paulette Goddard (until September 29), meeting there with F. Th. Csokor
and Kasimir Edschmid
October 14: Arrival in New York
October: Diagnosed with liver
diabetes
End of October: Work on Zeit
zu leben und Zeit zu sterben and Schatten im Paradies
December: Beginning of work on Der
schwarze Obelisk
1953: Under the influence
of Paulette Goddard, increasingly turns to Far Eastern philosophy, primarily
Zen
January: Encounter with Norma
Mailer
as of January 25: Becomes ill
again from Ménière’s Syndrome
March: Work on Zeit zu leben
und Zeit zu sterben
April 19: First encounter with
Ernst Glaeser after 20 years
May: Work on Die letzte
Station, Die Heimkehr des Enoch J. Jones, La Barcarole
June 20: Death of Josef Kramer,
gardener in Porto Ronco since the mid-1930s
August 1: Arrival in Rotterdam,
further travel to Amsterdam, Amstel Hotel, meeting with publisher van der
Velde; August 2: further travel without Paulette Goddard to Osnabrück, via
Amersfoort, visit with father Peter Franz Remark and sister Erna Rudolph in Bad
Rothenfelde, city tour of Osnabrück; August 4: return to Amsterdam via
Amersfoort (August 4). Flight with Paulette Goddard to Milan, further travel to
Porto Ronco (August 6)
December: Completion of work on Zeit
zu leben und Zeit zu sterben
December 9: Death of Walter
Feilchenfeldt
1954, as of January: Meeting with José Orabuena (earlier
Hans Sochaczewer
February 12: In St. Moritz,
Palace Hotel, with Paulette Goddard
March 15: Arrival in Porto Ronco
March 24: “Requested revisions”
from Kiepenheuer & Witsch for Zeit zu leben und Zeit zu sterben
April: First edition of Zeit
zu leben und Zeit zu sterben: A Time to Love and a Time to Die. New
York: Harcourt, Brace
Beginning of May: Beginning of
work on Der schwarze Obelisk
June 9: Death of father Peter
Franz Remark
June 11: Arrival in Osnabrück,
further travel to Bad Rothenfelde; meeting there with cousins Aloys and Josef
Remark; June 12: Burial of father; short visit in Osnabrück, return to Paris
July: Beginning of work on Der
letzte Akt (screenplay by Michael A. Musmannos “Ten Days to Die”)
August 6: Trip with Paulette
Goddard via Bregenz to Munich, Hotel Bayerischer Hof (August 7); meeting there
with G. W. Pabst and Carl Szokoll, Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rosselini; August
13: further travel to Salzburg, Hotel Stein; visit to the festival productions
August 22: Encounter with Manès
Sperber
September: First German
edition of Zeit zu leben und Zeit zu sterben. Roman. Cologne:
Kiepenheuer & Witsch
September 22: First draft of Der
letzte Akt completed
October 5: Trip with Paulette
Goddard to a health spa in Montecatini Terme and Florence (until November 7);
work there on the second draft of Der letzte Akt
December: Work on Der
schwarze Obelisk
1955, January 19 Stay in Vienna during the filming of Der
letzte Akt (screenplay by Remarque, directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst) until
the end of January
March: In Paris (until April 9)
April 17: Premier of Der
letzte Akt
October 30: Trip via Zürich to
Munich, Berlin, Frankfurt/Main and Paris (until November 13)
1956, April 30 Publication of Be Vigilant!,
political article by Remarque in the Daily Express (London)
September 17: In Berlin for the
final rehearsals and premier of Die letzte Station (until the beginning
of October), radio interview for the SFB
September 20: Die letzte
Station. Schauspiel (premier at the Renaissance Theater as part of the
Berlin Festival)
October: First edition of Der
schwarze Obelisk. Geschichte einer verspäteten Jugend. Roman.
Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Witsch
November 4: In Paris until
November 22
November 23: Arrival in New York
1957, May 20 Second divorce from Ilse Jutta Zambona in
Juarez, Mexico
as of June 14: In Los Angeles,
work on the screenplay to Zeit zu leben und Zeit zu sterben (until
mid-July)
September 28: Stay in Berlin
(until October 25) for the filming of A Time to Love and a Time to Die
(screenplay by Remarque, directed by Douglas Sirk), Remarque takes on the role
of Pohlmann, the teacher
The Eye is a Strong Seducer, political article regarding the film A Time to
Love and a Time to Die
1958, February 25 Marriage to Paulette Goddard in
Branford, Connecticut, USA
March 19: Premier of A Time
to Love and a Time to Die (film adaptation of Zeit zu leben und Zeit zu
sterben; Douglas Sirk, director)
June: In New York (until July 2)
October: In Venice
1959, March 18 Arrival in New York
July: Preprinting of Der
Himmel kennt keine Günstlinge as Geborgtes Leben. Geschichte einer Liebe
(“A Secure Life. A Story of Love”) in Kristall (Hamburg) (until
December)
October/November: Together with
Josef Wolf, a revision for Ultra-Film of the German script for On the
Beach/Das letzte Ufer (German version of the Stanley Kramer film based on
Nevil Shutes novel On the Beach)
October 27: In Porto Ronco
December 16: In New York
1960: First edition of Geborgtes Leben as Zhizn’
vzajmy. Moskva: Izdatelstvo Inostrannoj Literatury
March 30: In Rome
May 2: In Paris
September 1: Via Paris to Rome
1961, January 15 Preprinting of Die Nacht von Lissabon.
Roman in Welt am Sonntag (until May 14)
February: Preprinting of Der
Himmel kennt keine Günstlinge as Heaven has no Favorites in Good
Housekeeping (until March)
Der Himmel kennt keine
Günstlinge. Roman (book version of Geborgtes Leben).
Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Witsch
1962: Acquaintance with Heinz and Ruth Liepman
November
30: Political interview with Heinz Liepman in the Züricher Woche
(reprinted in Welt am Sonntag)
December:
First edition of Die Nacht von Lissabon. Roman.
Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Witsch
1963, January 22: In Berlin, radio interview with
RIAS-Berlin and SDR
January 28: Television interview
with Friedrich Luft (first broadcast on February 3 as part of the series “Das
Profil”)
January 31: In Munich (until
February 4)
April 1: In Paris (until April
20)
April 20: In London (until May
8), return to Paris
September: Trip to Rome, then
Naples, Hotel Excelsior (until October), there has second heart attack
December: Awarded the Möser
Medal from the city of Osnabrück
1964, until October: “Great depression”
October 1: Trip with Paulette to
Venice Hotel Danieli, and Florence (until October 14)
Work on a new version of Die
letzte Station
October 31: Presentation of the
Möser Medal by a delegation of the city council of Osnabrück in Porto Ronco
November 7: Death of Walter
Rudolph, husband of Erna Remark
December: Revision of Die
letzte Station
1965, January 20: Trip with Paulette Goddard to Milan,
there has third (mild) heart attack and stays in clinic until February 7
July 21: Publication of Frontal
durch Krieg und Frieden. (“Head-on through war and peace.”) Über Hans
Frick: Breinitzer oder die andere Schuld in Der Spiegel
September 30: In Naples, Hotel
Excelsior (until October 29)
December 27: In Rome, Hotel
Flora (until March 1966)
1966, April: In New York (until August)
1967, April 25 “Großes Verdienstkreuz” or highest medal of
honor awarded by the Federal Republic of Germany
May 1: In Rome, Hotel de la
Ville (until July 5)
July 20: In Bern, presentation
of the “Großes Verdienstkreuz” by the German ambassador
October: In Venice
December 6: In Florence (until
December 8), further travel to Rome (until June)
1968, June 22 Corresponding member of the Germany Academy
for Language and Literature, Darmstadt
Honorary Citizen of the
communities of Ronco and Ascona
December 10:
“Elfriede-Scholz-Straße” created by decision of the city council of Osnabrück
December 15: In Rome
1969, January: In Rome, Hotel de la Ville (until May 4)
October: Stay in Venice
1970, September 25: Death in the Clinica Sant’ Agnese in
Locarno (cause of death: aortic aneurysm)
1971, April: First edition of Schatten im Paradies.
Roman (published by Paulette Goddard, from the estate). Munich:
Droemer-Knaur
April 9: Initial broadcast of Die
Nacht von Lissabon (television version of Die Nacht von Lissabon;
Zbynek Brynych, director)
June 15: “Erich Maria
Remarque-Ring” created by decision of the city council of Osnabrück
1973, November 7 Premier of Full Circle (adaptation
of Die letzte Station by Peter Stone) at the ANTA-Theater, New York
1975, June 25: Death of Ilse Jutta Zambona in Monte Carlo
1977, August 31 Premier of Bobby Deerfield (film
adaptation of Der Himmel kennt keine Günstlinge; Sidney Pollack,
director)
1978, February 15: Death of sister Erna Remark in Bad
Rothenfelde
1979, November 7 Auction of 30 impressionist paintings
from Remarque’s collection by Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, for $3.1 million
November 14: Premier of All
Quiet on the Western Front (second film adaptation of Im Westen nichts
Neues; Delbert Mann, director)
1985, May 29 Initial broadcast of Arch of Triumph
(television version of Arc de Triomphe; Warris Hussein, director)
1988, October 15: Premier of Die Heimkehr des
Enoch J. Jones at “die probebühne” in Osnabrück
1989, May 26: Opening of the Erich Maria Remarque Archives
in the University of Osnabrück Library as a joint institution of the city of
Osnabrück and the University of Osnabrück
1990, April 23: Death of Paulette Goddard at “Casa Monte
Tabor” in Porto Ronco; sole beneficiary is the New York University, represented
through the “Estate of the Late Paulette Goddard-Remarque”
1991, March 1: Brunnenstraße premiers at “die
probebühne” in Osnabrück
June 13: First-time awarding of
the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize of the city of Osnabrück
1995, December 1: Auction of the manuscript of Im
Westen nichts Neues by Sotheby’s London, purchased by the Niedersächsishe
Sparkasse Foundation for the Erich Maria Remarque Archives
