One of the wildest love affairs of the 20th century A love story full of pleasures and ecstasies, full of disappointments and new beginnings against the backdrop of the looming human catastrophe of the Second World War. September 1937. The Venice Film Festival has just ended. On the terrace of the Hotel Excelsior on the Lido, Hollywood diva Marlene Dietrich is sitting with Josef von Sternberg, the director of 'The Blue Angel' who made her a global star. Then a very different kind of exceptional artist approaches the table, introduces himself, and begins a charming conversation: the German writer Erich Maria Remarque, who achieved worldwide fame with his anti-war novel 'All Quiet on the Western Front'. At that moment begins one of the wildest love affairs of the 20th century, a passionate love affair that lasts only a few years and pushes both of them to their emotional limits almost daily. A love story full of pleasures and ecstasies, full of disappointments and new beginnings, against the backdrop of the looming human catastrophe of the Second World War. biography Thomas Hüetlin, born in 1961, grew up in Munich. He was a correspondent for SPIEGEL in New York and Berlin, and is currently based in London. His articles about Beckham and Kahn attracted nationwide attention. New product