Ergebnis für "All Quiet on the Western Front" in Kunst & Unterhaltung

All Quiet on the Western Front is an iconic anti-war novel. A semi-autobiographical work by WWI veteran Erich Maria Remarque, it is the story Paul Bäumer and his classmates, who are inspired by a patriotic school teacher, Kantorek, to enlist in the Imperial German Army. Here, they face the extreme mental and physical trauma of the German trenches and a growing disconnect between the front and civilian life. First published in serial form in 1928, the book and its sequel were subsequently banned in Nazi Germany. Adapted to film in 1930, 1979, and 2022, it garnered 6 Academy Awards, a Golden ...

Considered by many to be the greatest war novel of all time, All Quiet on the Western Front is the chronicle of a German soldier fighting in the trenches of World War I, including the severe physical suffering and emotional trauma that will leave many unable to readjust to civilian life afterward. - Summary by the Mark Nelson