Love your next

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Remarque's signature around 1920

Love your neighbor is a novel by the German writer Erich Maria Remarque .

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The novel describes the interwoven fates of three emigrants who left Germany at the time of National Socialism and who are not accepted in any European country without identity papers. First, the young Ludwig Kern, son of a denounced Jewish perfume manufacturer, and the pithy Josef Steiner get to know each other in Vienna after the evacuation of an emigrant shelter. The authorities expel them from the country and the two men part ways for the time being. In Prague, Kern meets his now completely broken father for the last time and falls in love with Ruth Holland, who is traveling alone. The couple was separated in the Czech Republic, but found each other again in Vienna. Together they flee to Switzerland, where the emigrants are dealt with particularly hard and Ruth soon becomes seriously ill. Only in Paris does the situation seem to ease somewhat. Steiner also arrives there some time later and helps Kern to find a job in setting up the pavilion for the world exhibition . With his forged Austrian passport, Steiner finally goes back to Germany to say goodbye to his dying wife. After her death, he is taken away by Gestapo man Steinbrenner, who tortured him before he fled. While still in the hospital, Steiner rushes out of a window and kills Steinbrenner with him. Holland and Kern received his estate and with it the opportunity to leave Europe for Mexico.

Origin, editions and filming

Remarque began work on the novel in April 1938, shortly after his marriage to Jutta Ilse Zambona in exile in Switzerland in St. Moritz, and continued it in Porto Ronco . In February 1939 the first draft was finished. Remarque toured France and the United States that year, where he settled from September. Love your neighbor appeared from July to September 1939 under the title Flotsam as a preprint in Collier's Weekly magazine . The book edition of the revised text followed in March 1941 and was published by Little, Brown and Company . The first German-language edition appeared in September 1941; it was published by the exile publisher Bermann Fischer in Stockholm. Also in 1941, the novel, directed by John Cromwell, was made into a film with the title So Ends Our Night . Fredric March played the role of Josef Steiner . In 1953 the novel was finally published in Germany.

Designs of the novel, the theater project originated Jewish community Rostock Love thy neighbor .

Expenses (selection)

  • Erich Maria Remarque: Love your neighbor . Commentary, slovarʹ LM Buzinovoj. Izd. Karo, Sankt-Peterburg 2011, ISBN 978-5-9925-0650-1 .
  • Erich Maria Remarque: Love your neighbor . With an afterword by Tilman Westphalen. Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-462-02730-1 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Information on the novel at the Remarque Peace Center. Retrieved November 21, 2012 .
  2. ↑ Remarque's biography at the Remarque Peace Center. Retrieved November 21, 2012 .
  3. ↑ So Ends Our Night in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  4. ↑ 3rd Jewish Culture Days 2018