Jeg h\u00f8rte engang for mange \u00e5r siden, at Erich Maria Remarques f\u00f8denavn skulle v\u00e6re Kramer. Lyder da ogs\u00e5 som en besn\u00e6rende m\u00e5de at lave sig et pseudonym p\u00e5: stave sit rigtige navn bagfra og g\u00f8re det lidt mere fancy med en fransk endelse. Det er imidlertid en myte: Remarque har aldrig heddet Kramer. Hans f\u00f8denavn var Erich Paul Remark. Muligvis er den sejlivede misforst\u00e5else et resultat af nazistisk propaganda. Wikipedia:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On 10 May 1933, the Nazis, instigated by the then Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels banned and publicly burned Remarque’s works and produced propaganda claiming that he was a descendant of French Jews and that his real last name was Kramer, a Jewish-sounding name, and his original name spelled backwards. This is still cited in some biographies despite the complete lack of evidence. The Nazis also claimed, falsely, that Remarque had not done active service during World War I. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n For nogle \u00e5r siden, da jeg i en sprogklumme i en dansk avis s\u00e5 p\u00e5standen om Kramer-navnet fremf\u00f8rt endnu engang, skrev jeg til klummens forfatter om ovenst\u00e5ende. Jeg modtog et lidt arrogant svar om, at det altid har v\u00e6ret kendt, at han hed Kramer, uden yderligere dokumentation. S\u00e5 jeg gravede – barnligt, indr\u00f8mmet! – dette citat frem fra The Novels of Erich Maria Remarque: Sparks of Life <\/em>af Brian Murdoch:<\/p>\n\n\n\n [O]ne of the most absurdly tenacious myths about him is that he was really called Kramer. This appeared in at least one official Nazi document and still crops up in otherwise respectable or scholarly works, even though he denied it fairly bluntly in print as late as 1966, and it has been corrected often enough. His birth certificate is in the name of Erich Paul Remark, born 22 June 1898, and there is even a photograph of it in Thomas Schneider’s pictorial biography. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Man m\u00e5 sige det er tankev\u00e6kkende hvor effektiv propagandaen \u00e5benbart har v\u00e6ret i dette tilf\u00e6lde.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jeg h\u00f8rte engang for mange \u00e5r siden, at Erich Maria Remarques f\u00f8denavn skulle v\u00e6re Kramer. Lyder da ogs\u00e5 som en besn\u00e6rende m\u00e5de at lave sig et pseudonym p\u00e5: stave sit rigtige navn bagfra og g\u00f8re det lidt mere fancy med en fransk endelse. Det er imidlertid en myte: Remarque har aldrig heddet Kramer. Hans f\u00f8denavn … <\/p>\n