Never Look Away: Screenplays

By: B. Osborne, Christopher

As a small child during the Nazi era, protagonist Kurt Barnert (inspired by Gerhard Richter) visits the traveling exhibition "Entartete Kunst" ("Degenerate Art") in Dresden with his beautiful and eccentric young aunt Elisabeth (Saskia Rosendahl). While there, Kurt is especially mesmerized by the Girl with Blue Hair, a modernist sculpture by Eugen Hoffmann. Later at home Kurt walks in on Elisabeth playing the piano in the nude. She suddenly appears mesmerized by playing the note A on the piano and begins to ramble in a euphoric way. Her mother then comes home and walks in as she is hitting herself on the head with a glass plate and begins bleeding, smiling, and saying she is "playing a concert for Hitler." It is unclear if she has suffered a breakdown of sorts or is mentally ill in general. She also tells Kurt to "never look away" because "everything that is true holds beauty in it". He will keep this advice close to his heart for the rest of his life.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN13: 9798730078345
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 134 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.5" x 11.0"