{"id":55589,"date":"2023-02-21T12:53:03","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T17:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=55589"},"modified":"2023-02-27T13:46:34","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T18:46:34","slug":"erich-maria-remarque-all-quiet-on-east-57th-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2023\/02\/erich-maria-remarque-all-quiet-on-east-57th-street.html","title":{"rendered":"<font size=\"+1\"><em>Erich Maria Remarque<\/em><\/font> <br><strong>All Quiet on East 57th Street<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Now that the German-language adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque&#8217;s famous 1928 antiwar novel <em>All Quiet on the Western Front<\/em> has won <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/02\/19\/movies\/baftas-winners-2023.html?searchResultPosition=1\">best picture at the British equivalent of the Oscars<\/a>, the staff here thought it worth noting that Remarque lived for the last 20 years of his life neither in Germany nor the UK but on Manhattan&#8217;s East Side. So sayeth the memorial plaque at the lobby entrance to an inconspicuous midtown high-rise. Residents entering or leaving the building were, when asked, unaware of the picture&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/entertainment-arts-64510093\"> acclaim<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/erich-maria-remarque-crpd-640bdrenh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"554\" data-attachment-id=\"55622\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/erich-maria-remarque-crpd-640bdrenh\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/erich-maria-remarque-crpd-640bdrenh.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,554\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 12&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1676974842&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.2&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;160&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.016666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"erich maria remarque crpd (640)(bdr)(enh)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/erich-maria-remarque-crpd-640bdrenh-300x260.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/erich-maria-remarque-crpd-640bdrenh.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/erich-maria-remarque-crpd-640bdrenh.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-55622\" title=\"foto \u00a9 2023 (janherman)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/erich-maria-remarque-crpd-640bdrenh.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/erich-maria-remarque-crpd-640bdrenh-300x260.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em><sub>jh:foto<\/sub><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Postscript:<\/strong> Feb. 27 \u2014This critic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2023\/feb\/27\/germans-all-quiet-on-the-western-front-novel-film\">begs to differ<\/a> about the acclaim. I&#8217;m not crazy about the film either for other reasons than his.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that the German-language adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque&#8217;s famous 1928 antiwar novel &#8220;All Quiet on the Western Front&#8221; has won best picture at the British equivalent of the Oscars, the staff here thought it worth noting that Remarque lived for the last 20 years of his life neither in Germany nor the UK but on Manhattan&#8217;s East Side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":55586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,18,4,21,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-55589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"category-literature","9":"category-main","10":"category-movies","11":"category-news","12":"category-political-culture","13":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/erich-maria-remarquew-crpd-640.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-esB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55589"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55719,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55589\/revisions\/55719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}