20. Jahrhundert: 1914-1945 | Erster Weltkrieg
The First World War in Literature
"For one crazy moment, the entire battle rages around me like a circus. Then a hand rises above my head in one motion and releases a hand grenade. We have become dangerous animals." In his anti-war novel "Im Westen nichts Neues" (All Quiet on the Western Front), published in 1929, Erich Maria Remarque describes the horrors of the First World War from the perspective of a young soldier. Like many writers, he deals with his experiences on the front in literary form. Georg Trakl, August Stramm, Edlef Köppen, Robert Graves and John McCrae also find a special language for their horrendous experiences. In poems, novels and autobiographical works they wrote of the brutality of war and senseless dying.
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