{"product_id":"2940169636222","title":"Never Again War: The Sacrifice of Kothe Kollwitz","description":"\u003cp\u003eSueMedia Productions \/ Midsummer Sound Company present the original audio drama, \u003ci\u003eNever Again War: The Sacrifice of Käthe Kollwitz\u003c\/i\u003e by Helen Engelhardt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBegun as a stage play by Engelhardt, this audio adaptation of \u003ci\u003eNever Again War\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on key biographical moments in Kollwitz¿s long life to give the audience an understanding of the complex world in which she lived and the destructive nature of war. Engelhardt is now working on a feature film to further bring awareness of Kollwitz¿s story to a larger audience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHosted by Marsha Mason, Oscar nominee and Golden Globe winner, \u003ci\u003eNever Again War\u003c\/i\u003e takes us into the mind and life of the great German graphic artist and sculptor, Käthe Kollwitz, renowned for her body of work dedicated to depicting the lives of the working poor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter her youngest son Peter was killed in Belgium in October 1914 during the opening weeks of World War I, she devoted the rest of her life to using her art in the service of her grief and opposition to war.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur play begins in Berlin in February 1914 at a party in the Kollwitz home celebrating the eighteenth birthday of her younger son Peter. A few months later, as soon as war begins, Peter implores his parents for permission to join his older brother Hans to become a soldier in the army.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo support the idealism of her sons to offer themselves for sacrifice on behalf of the Fatherland, the socialist Käthe finds herself supporting her sons in a war she deeply disapproved of. When the play concludes in Moritzburg, two weeks before Germany¿s defeat at the end of World War II in 1945, Kollwitz has learned that every war is answered by a new war until everything is smashed because every war already carries within it the war that will answer it, as World War II answered World War I.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Blackstone Audio production.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Audio, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47099712635120,"sku":"2940169636222","price":4.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169636222_p0.jpg?v=1769897985","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169636222","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}