Never Again War: The Sacrifice of Käthe Kollwitz

SueMedia Productions / Midsummer Sound Company present the original audio drama Never Again War: The Sacrifice of Käthe Kollwitz by Helen Engelhardt.

Never Again War takes us into the mind and life of the great German graphic artist and sculptor Käthe Kollwitz. The play begins in Berlin in February 1914, at a party in the Kollwitz home to celebrate the eighteenth birthday of her younger son Peter. A few months later as war begins, Peter implores his parents for permission to join his older brother Hans as a soldier in the army.

To support the idealism of her sons to offer themselves on behalf of the Fatherland, the socialist Kollwitz 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 carries within it the war that will answer it, as World War II answered World War I.