Word: osnabr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Author Remarque admits that he had to invent little of his story because so much of it happened to him. Hero Ludwig's town of Werdenbrük is like Remarque's Osnabrück in Lower Saxony. Remarque too wanted to be a poet and pianist and wound up with a tombstone firm; he too recited his lessons to prostitutes. These hard times remembered in tranquillity result in a strange sort of book. The atmosphere is as febrile as a manic ward on the upbeat. The poor and aged commit suicide every day, but the tombstone firm...
...Heckmann and colleagues, having paid attention to the prize offer, sued Bueren in the Osnabrück court. "Science cannot always say what is correct." they argued, "but we have advanced so far as to be able to say what is wrong...