ZEIT DEBATTE in Tübingen
The next big event of the ZEIT DEBATTEN is already announced: Streitkultur Tübingen will convene the first ZEIT DEBATTE in the 2012/2013 season. The German speaking debating circuit will meet in Tübingen from November 23 to 25.
Language of the tournament, as in the whole series, is German, the ZEIT DEBATTE Tübingen will be held in OPD (open parliamentary debate). Chief adjudicators are 2010 German champion Philipp Stiel (Tübingen/Berlin), Wiebke Nadler (Leipzig/Heidelberg) and Leo Vogel (Karlsruhe)
The tournament series ZEIT DEBATTEN is organised by VDCH, the Association of Debating Societies at Universities, in cooperation with the weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT and German Telekom as well as with the support of ZDF, a German public broadcaster. It has been more than a decade now since the first ZEIT DEBATTEN series started with at least five big annual competitions. One of these is the German debating championship. Honorary patron of the series is the former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt.
Facts:
- ZEIT DEBATTE Tübingen 2012
- 23. to 25. November
- OPD, german
- 27 teams
- CAs: Philipp Stiel (Tübingen/Berlin), Wiebke Nadler (Leipzig/Heidelberg), Leo Vogel (Karlsruhe)
- Convenors: Marie Rulfs, Konrad Gütschow