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The new executive board of the Debating Society in Frankfurt is composed of Robert Epple and as Vice-Presidents Frank Schneider and Marion Seiche.

The debating society of Tübingen, Germany, has elected a new executive board: Marie Rulfs is new president. Deputies are Konrad Gütschow, Mark Schönhaar, Helen Y. Pan and Sarah John. ...

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The german weekly, DER SPIEGEL, reports in its online edition on the FLTRP Cup in Beijing, China. Thanks to Michael Shapira the Achte Minute is able to provide the full set of topics debated in Beijing. Michael Shapira wons this year’s World Universities Debating Championships (WUDC or Worlds) at Gaborone, Botswana in the category “English as a Second Language” (ESL) and judged in Beijing. ...

In preparation for the german championships the debating societies of Aachen and Bonn met to debate two rounds. Please read the german version of this article.

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This article is not available in English. Please read the German version to learn about the 1st Philosophy-Slam in Halle, Germany. ...

The convenor of Potsdam PULS Punk announced the CA team of the tournament: Nils Haneklaus (Debattierclub Stuttgart), Rafael Heinisch (S.A.E.C.L.O. Greifswald) and Christoph Krakowiak (Streitkultur Berlin). ...

The debating society of Dortmund, DeBaDo Dortmund, invites nine teams, probably for three people (the debating format should be OPD), to have a training tournament in Dortmund on June 4th, 2011. ...

The debating society Streitpunkt Leipzig convened for its board elections and elected a new board: Alexander Karl Postl, Jakob Fertmann and Salomon Krug. International officer is Katharina Ander. Congratulations and good luck with your work!

Debattierclub Magdeburg convened for its board elections last sunday. Reelected as President is Jan Dirk Capelle, his new deputy is Christian Landrock, while Friedrich Meyn was elected as treasurer. Congratulations and good luck with your work!

Please read the German version of this article to learn more about the Southern German Championship in Bayreuth.

Please read the German version of this article to learn more about the German regionals in Bayreuth (South), Frankfurt (West), Osnabrück (North) and Halle (East). 60 teams from all over Germany, Austria and Switzerland are expected to compete on the next two weekends for the titles - and additional teams for the German Debating Championship in Heidelberg in June. ...

The next big event of the ZEIT DEBATTEN series is looking just around the corner: The ZEIT DEBATTE in Jena is open for registration. From 20 to 22nd May this tournament will take place in Jena, Germany. The convenors allure to German speaking debaters with the "Wartburg" style where no proposals are allowed so you have to create questions that can be answered clearly with “yes” or “no”. ...

Debaters from Mainz taught a debating class in a secondary school in Sulzbach (Germany), this time for the second time. Their commitment is based on a cooperation between the Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium and the debating society in Mainz, Debattierclub Johannes Gutenberg. ...

In the German newspaper Stuttgarter Nachrichten, Jan Lüken, president of the umbrella organization of german language debating societies, Association of Debating Societies at Universities (VDCH), analyzed the rhetoric of candidates from the German federal state Baden-Württemberg. State elections, Landtagswahl, are just around the corner and will take place on Sunday. Please read the german version of his statements. tr / apf

Göttingen (Nicolas Friebe and David Lamouroux) won the final of ZEIT DEBATTE Stuttgart 2011! Best Speaker Award goes to Katharina Wagner from Dresden Debating Union. Please read more on this in the German version of this article. ...

Please read the German version of this article to find out who broke to the Grand Final at ZEIT DEBATTE Stuttgart! ...

Please read the German version of this article to find out who broke to semi-finals at ZEIT DEBATTE Stuttgart! ...

Magdeburg boasts to be a particularly active "student city". To prove this, some of the students are beeing interviewed from time to time. This time this is Jan Dirk Capelle who studies "philosophy-neuroscience-cognition" and helds the presidency of the local debating society. ...

While the suspended "Dr." (the German doctoral degree, equivalent to Ph.D.) of the German minister of defence is a hot media topic in Germany, the regional newspaper "Donaukurier" reported on two doctoral students at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. One of the interviewees is Jan Lüken, currently president of the umbrella organization VDCH. He is writing his thesis at the Faculty of Economics in Ingolstadt. ...

This article is not available in English. Please read the German version of this article to see what various debating societies say about the IV in Stuttgart! https://www.achteminute.de/?p=8412 ...

The Southern German championship (SDM) 2011 will be staged in Bayreuth. After DebattierClub St. Gallen had to cancel their plans to host the SDM – due to an international conference they have no rooms for prelims – Debattierclub Bayreuth (DCBT) will now fill in for the Swiss to save the competition for the southern part of German speaking debate societies. However, accommodating debaters appropriately makes it necessary to reschedule that tournament: Debaters from southern Germany, Austria, Switzerland and northern Italy will have to come to Bayreuth on the weekend of 9 and 10 April. Usually being held simultaneously, the other regional ...

Just founded a few days ago, the Duisburg Debating Society has already got an article in a big regional newspaper, the WAZ Westdeutsche Allgemeine. Jörn Hahn, one of the founder of the society, spoke about debating in general and how a debate is well performed.  ...

This article is not available in English. Please read the German version of this article to see what various debating societies say about the ZEIT DEBATTE in Mainz on their websites! ...

This article is not available in English, please browse the German version of this bit to see some of the photos taken at ZEIT DEBATTE Mainz 2011. ...