In 1930, Bertolt Brecht and the composer Kurt Weill wrote Der Jasager, the Yes-Sayer, a school opera to be performed by students. It was first performed on 23 June 1930 in Berlin and broadcast live on radio. In it, a boy agrees, according to the Großen Brauch, the great custom, to be thrown into a valley. In November 1930, students at the Karl-Marx-Schule in Berlin-Neukölln performed the piece and discussed it. On 9 December, their teacher sent Brecht the minutes of the discussions. Brecht printed extracts of the students’ suggestions in his own publication. Based on their objections and on the reviews, he wrote a counterpart: Der Neinsager, the No-Sayer, in which the boy refuses and successfully contradicts the verdict.