Luisa Neubauer

Luisa Neubauer is a German climate activist and one of the best-known organizers of Fridays for Future in Germany, the school-strike movement for climate action.

What we have documented

We have documented 1 statement by Luisa Neubauer, in 1 case. Each statement below gives the quotation, its original source and a link to the full case.

Statements by Luisa Neubauer

Luisa Neubauer

Role at the time: Fridays for Future activist, in an interview with WELT TV from the COP31 climate conference

November 12, 2026Minimized

Statement summary

Neubauer says climate activists do not have to agree on everything about forms of protest or narratives. She tells WELT TV she has become more relaxed about individual clips and will not let them distract her.

“We don't have to agree on everything when it comes to forms of protest, when it comes to narratives. (Translated from German. Original: Wir müssen uns nicht in allem einig sein, was Protestformen betrifft, was Narrative betrifft)”

Open sourceWELT: Greta Thunberg laughs at German climate protestsArticle text, section on Luisa Neubauer

Why we used this label

Neubauer acknowledges a disagreement over forms of protest but plays down the clip, saying she has become more relaxed about individual clips and will stay focused, so we labeled it as minimizing.

Read statement Full case: Greta Thunberg laughs at a German Fridays for Future protest in a documentary, then says the movement distanced itself from her over Palestine

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Case

Greta Thunberg laughs at a German Fridays for Future protest in a documentary, then says the movement distanced itself from her over Palestine

Relationship to this case: Speaker

A documentary clip shows Greta Thunberg laughing when told of a Fridays for Future protest in Berlin. She later said the German climate movement had distanced itself from her over Palestine; commentators split over whether she mocked her own movement.

Climate Change PalestineUpdated November 14, 2026

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Greta Thunberg laughs at a German Fridays for Future protest in a documentary, then says the movement distanced itself from her over Palestine

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