“Don’t worry.” A phrase that’s easy to say. A phrase meant to reassure. Yet fear is ever-present. The shift to the right in society and the rise of far-right and radical right-wing positions in parliaments are causing many people to feel afraid.
Image gallery
Das große Nein
What exactly are people afraid of? How do they deal with this fear? And what helps to counter it?
‘The Great No’ tells the story of Konrad Latte, Leo Borchard, Ruth Andreas-Friedrich and their fellow campaigners. They were all united by their abhorrence of Nazi terror and their rejection of the Nazi regime and its ‘völkisch’ ideology. Their resistance was not the result of political activism or religious conviction. Their resistance was motivated purely by humanity.
In Berlin, they supported those being persecuted, organised food, hiding places and forged documents. Their opposition, which initially took place in secret, also led to public protest in the final months of the war:
In April 1945, during a night-time operation, they wrote a ‘NO’ visible from afar on walls and noticeboards and distributed leaflets opposing Hitler’s policies. It was only after the war that this circle of friends became known as the ‘Onkel Emil’ resistance group.
The evening event ‘The Big No’ tells of fear and persecution, but also of support, solidarity, cohesion and the courage to act even in the face of extreme danger.
It asks: Where do opposition and resistance begin? What form could moral courage take in a dictatorship? And when and where do we speak out today?
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Participating artists
Daniel-František Kamen
Katja Lehmann
Pauline Utecht
Manuel Garelli
Dates
November 2026
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