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You may now register for the Berlin Punk Tournament in January. It will be held in German and in BPS. Team-Cap is 48. To register mail to Johannes Häger joiio.taefer[at]gmail.com. CAs are Dessislava Kirova and Andrea Gau. Pro-Am teams requested.

This is a bit on stories and rumours behind the BaWü 2010, for instance how a team from Berlin called and said how they're stuck in a traffic jam near Frankfurt - unfortunately, this team hadn't registered before! Read more on this and other stories in the German version of this article! ...

Heidelberg is going to be stage to the German Debating Championship (DDM) 2011, so many debaters in Germany see the Baden-Württembergian Open (BaWü) 2010 as a kind of dress rehearsal for DDM 2011. But superstitious minds in Germany have it that traditionally the dress rehearsal has to be a terrible disaster – if the real event shall be fine. However, neither the grouches nor the superstitious could find anything to mock about at BaWü 2010 last weekend. After Maike Jung, Jenny Holm and Kristina Seebacher organized the whole event smoothly, our reporter Gudrun Lux is really afraid that DDM 2011 ...

Lukas Windhager, Almut Graebsch and Marco Niedermeier have won BaWü 2010. Best speaker of the final was Magnus Schmagold from Göttingen. More information soon on Achte Minute.

Break to Semis at Baden-Württembergische Meisterschaft: Mainzelmünchen (Daniil Pakhomenko, Andrea Gau, Wladi Jachtschenko) Mainz Phyrgische Mütze (Thore Wojke, Nicolas Eberle, Sascha Schenkenberger) Debatte Karlsruhe (Michael Pruß, Christoph Baumhardt, Jenny Bachmann) München Friedensengel (Almut Graebsch, Lukas Windhager, Marco Niedermeier) Free Speakers (OPD style): Magnus Schmagold (DC Göttingen) Marcus Ewald (DCJG Mainz) Konrad Grießinger (DCJG Mainz) Johannes Vatanyutaweewat (DCGF Frankfurt) Nicolas Friebe (DC Göttingen) Simon Lehle (Streitkultur Tübingen) Adjudicators: Willy Witthaut, Anette Purucker, Jan Lüken, Jörn Hahn, Mario Dießner, Volker Tjaden, Lukas Haffert, Anja Pfeffermann, Yin Cai, Dominic Hildebrand. ...

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On 23 November, the Debattierclub Hartshornes House Marburg hosts another show debate. Three speakers from the club versus three professors are going to debate at Rathaussaal at 8 p.m.

Preußen Punk Potsdam's Tab is now online.

Stuss stands for nonsense: The first show debate in the comedy format STUSS will be held on 17 November at 8 p.m. at Kulturcafé on the campus of the University of Mainz. STUSS is an acronym and stands for "Stramme Thesen und studentischer Streit", but stuss itself means “nonsense”, which is way more important, explains Thore Woijke, one of the founders of STUSS. He and Nicolas Eberle, Marcus Ewald, Carsten Knittler and Clemens Fucker will be performing next Wednesday. STUSS consists of some short debates with teams of two on each side. Speeches should be between three and six minutes. One ...

The Berlin Debating Union won the Preußen Punk Potsdam tournament. The competition was held in German, the format was British Parliamentary Style (BPS). ...

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Streitkultur Tübingen announced the chief adjudicators of Steitkultur Cup: Mario Dießner of Wortgefechte Potsdam and Christoph Krakowiak, Streitkultur Berlin's president, will be in charge. Until November 14th, you may register for Streitkultur Cup, a German-language debating tournament held in OPD style. Please send an e-mail to vorstand[at]streitkultur.net and let your host know how many teams your institution is going to send to the tournament. Registration fees are 10 Euros and a limited number of crash will be available, others will be asked to care for their own accommodation. There will be three preliminary rounds and a final which will be staged ...

The tab of ZEIT DEBATTE Greifswald can be found online! Interesting enough: The team of Hanse Debating Union Bremen broke to semis with a result of 15 out of 15 points. And the team from Klartext Halle that later won the final was third of the tab after prelims. ...

“Elternalarm – Parents coming!” was the slogan in Münster in late October: Students’ parents were welcome to discover Münster – and the Debattierclub Münster was part of this. Various events were arranged at all Münster universities and colleges. The debating society presented themselves to the mothers, fathers and siblings with an abbreviated format: Two speakers on each side – pro and con – held their respective four minute speech to convince the audience. The motion read: “Credit points for going to the theater – How much culture can students bear?” One credit point should be achieved by visiting the cultural events ...

Arguments by the river Rhine: On 9 November, the Debattierclub Johannes Gutenberg Mainz (DCJG) hosts another show debate. Three speakers from DCJG versus three professors are going to debate at Audimax/Alte Mensa at 6.30 p.m. The motion reads: "Should social networks be prohibited?" Read more on this in the German version of this article. glx / apf

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Halle for the first time enters the Top Ten in the VDCH hall of fame, and now draws with Bonn. Munich and Greifswald are victims of Halle’s victory in Greifswald and lose a few places. A new entry on the list is Bremen (Hanse Debating Union, HDU). Jena underscores its position as one of Germany’s top clubs, and Mainz was able to secure a point this last weekend, although this was in debating, not in football. This was an awaited recovery, after Mainz had disappointed during the German Championships in June. The top seated Berlin Debating Union did not win any ...

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Simeon Reusch and Thomas Wach of debating club Klartext Halle won the ZEIT DEBATTE Greifswald 2010. More information will follow soon.

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Hooray and boohoo: Just eight teams out of 24 had the chance to break at the ZEIT DEBATTEN series kick-off that opens the current season of 2010/2011. Here are the teams that compete for the break into finals on Sunday morning at Greifswald by the Baltic Sea. ...

The new ZEIT DEBATTEN series begins! This weekend, speakers and judges from Vienna, Munich, Mainz, Frankfurt and other cities in VDCH-land flock at Greifswald by the Baltic Sea. Language of the tournament, as in the whole series, is German, the ZEIT DEBATTE Greifswald will be held in British Parliamentary Style (BPS). Chief adjudicators are Isabelle Loewe (ESL European Champion 2006), Michael Saliba from Stuttgart, David Lamouroux from Göttingen and Sarah Jaglitz from Greifswald. The ZEIT DEBATTEN series is convened by VDCH in cooperation with the weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT and Deutsche Telekom, supported through VDCH’s media partner ZDF, a German public ...

Registration for the Vienna IV is now open - save your spot for the first international intervarsity in Austria, to be held March 4th to 6th, 2011. The participation fee is 30 Euros per person (speakers and adjudicators), which includes accommodation at the youth hostel Brigittenau and all meals. Debates will be held in English, under the rules of British Parliamentary Style. To register, send an email to info[at]debattierklubwien.at with the following information: Institution, number of teams, number of judges, and contact details. Institution may send adjudicators, but there is no obligation to do so. The team cap per institution is three. ...

The Newspaper Die Welt Kompakt reported on the show debate in Munich’s Atomic Café on 25 Ocotber. Die Welt’s author  Thomas Kletschke strongly emphasizes Lukas Windhager’s efforts, formerly treasurer of Debattierclub München. Kletschke on the debate with the motion “Manager in the morning, human being in the afternoon – we need a part time society”: “It was especially Windhagers closing argument that was convincing. In a part time society, those working full time would be the cash cows of society. ‘We could not live the way we’d like – we would have to live the way we should,’ he explained. Thus, ...

Other debating societies report on the Gutenberg Cup 2010. Here you may read over their stories! ...