Josef Hoppe debattiert seit April 2019 in Aachen und ist dort seit 2020 im Vorstand. Unter anderem war er Mitglied der Cheforga für die CARLs-Debatten 2022, gewann den Nachwuchsjurierpreis der WDM 2022 und tabbt 2023 die Campus-Debatte Göttingen sowie die Süddeutsche Meisterschaft. Das Mittwochs-Feature: Mittwochs veröffentlicht die Achte Minute ab 10.00 Uhr oftmals ein Mittwochs-Feature, worin eine Idee, Debatte, Buch oder Person in den Mittelpunkt gestellt wird. Wenn du selbst eine Debatte anstoßen möchtest, melde dich mit deinem Themen-Vorschlag per Mail an team [at] achteminute [dot] de. jh./jgg.  

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The German language debating championship is about to start in Vienna, Austria. Competing for the title are 68 teams from Germany, Switzerland and Austria, or debating societies from Aachen, Bayreuth, Berlin, Bonn, Dresden, Frankfurt, Freiburg, Graz, Göttingen, Halle, Hamburg, Hannover, Heidelberg, Ingolstadt, Jena, Karlsruhe, Kiel, Klagenfurt, Köln, Konstanz, Leipzig, Magdeburg, Mainz, Marburg, München, Münster, Potsdam, Regensburg, Salzburg, Stuttgart, St. Gallen, Tübingen, Wien, Würzburg and Zürich. Learn more about MDD in the German version of this article and follow us on Facebook and Twitter (hashtag #MDD12). It's the first time the German language debating championship (Meisterschaft im deutschsprachigen Debattieren or MDD) is hosted ...

Since we guess that our appreciated readers follow us on Twitter your head will most probably be replete with impressions from Galway Euros. But what are the facts and figures about the European Universities Debating Championships (EUDC or Euros)? Or maybe you have been there yourself and want to sort things out now? Your Achte Minute team provides you with all you might want to know - and even beyond. By the way, you still might wanna follow the Hashtag #EUDC on Twitter - you'll find funny stories and how everybody copes with the ...

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.

Team Texas A&M A (Syed Taha and Alya Al-Harthy) defeated teams from Stuttgart, Berlin and Utrecht in the Science Po IV 2011 final. Twenty BPS teams competed from May 7 to 9 at the tournament in Le Havre, France. Chief adjudicator at the ESL-only IV in France's Normandy was Manos Moschopoulos, his deputies were Anne Valkering, Isabelle Loewe, Milan Vignjevic and Rob Honig. The Tab is already online. All motions at a glance: Round 1: This House would invalidate any election result with a turnout below 70 per cent. Round 2: This House believes that children should be excluded from any religion ...

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The weekend around in mid-April could have been named the European weekend of debating. Beside the German Regional Championships, the Dutch Nationals and Lund Open the American College in Greece hosted this year's Athens Open. In addition to the usual high qualitiy debaters that the Balkans have to offer, the tourney featured quite a remarkable number of previously unseen institutions. For once there were various institutions from Paris who showed how this month’s Paris IV is both part and a catalyst of spreading BP debating around Europe. From Germany Aachen and Paderborn ...

On 24 March Debattierclub Aachen had the pleasure to send a small group of debaters to Maastricht. Beforehand the debating society of the University College Maastricht (UCM) invited us to come to the Netherlands. The three teams arrived by early evening and challenged their selves in two debates with our geographical neighbors. The rules were like in a debate in British Parliamentary Style (BPS) with a few modifications: there were only ten minutes for preparation, five minute speeches and there were no questions to the closing speakers allowed. The motions of the two debates were: THW allow parents to choose the sex ...

The western border area of Germany is socializing internationally: On the evening of 24 March a group of debaters and adjudicators from Debattierclub Aachen will drive to Maastricht, to compete with the Dutch colleagues from Universalis Debate at the University College Maastricht. It is a friendship debate which will be held in English in British Parliamentary Style. Aachen is situated just half an hour away by car from Maastricht, so the debaters from the German side hope that in the future there will be more debates of this kind. So the debaters could easily gain international experience in debating also during ...

In early February, Andreas Lazar (Debattierclub Stuttgart) shed some light on international debating for those interested of Debattierclub Aachen (DCA). Earlier this year, Andreas was top speaker at Worlds in Botswana in the category "English as a Foreign Language" (EFL) and made it to semis together with his team mate Michael Saliba. In the two-day workshop, the focus was on the basics of the internationally wide-spread format of British Parliamentary Style (BPS). Andreas told the 30 debaters from Aachen about tools to find, order and present arguments. Andreas was supported by Dutch debaters from Amsterdam University College: Roelant Stegmann, ...

After five prelims, team Freiburg Türme, Zsolt Szilagyi and Friedemann Groth, won the final of Stuttgart Punk on the past weekend. The motion read "Dieses Haus würde Vegetarier werden", or this house would become vegetarian. Best speaker of the final was Clemens Fucker from Debattierclub Johannes Gutenberg Mainz. Chief adjudicators Sarah Kempf, Nils Haneklaus and Andreas Lazar made up motions for five prelims and a final: 1. Vorrunde: Dieses Haus würde Einwanderern die Staatsbürgerschaft verleihen, wenn sie im Einwanderungsland Militärdienst geleistet haben. 2. Vorrunde: Dieses Haus würde Handelsbeziehungen mit Ländern abbrechen, in denen Christen verfolgt werden. 3. Vorrunde: Dieses Haus lehnt den ...

The International Office of RWTH Aachen is regularly interviewing different student initiatives, founded in of the university in Aachen. This time, the Chairman of the debating society, Marc-André Schulz, is about to answer some questions. Read the complete interview in german language. ...

Georg Sommerfeld and Johannes Häger won for the Berlin Debating Union the Santa Claus Tournament in Münster.

Two debaters from Debatte Dortmund (DebaDo) set out last monday to visit debating clubs all over Germany. Jörn Hahn and Jens Schulze report from their first five stops. (The following part is not or not yet available in English. Please check back later.) 16 Debates in 16 Days - die ersten fünf Tage Aachen: An diesem Dienstag versammelt sich der Debattierclub Aachen (ACDC) in der Bar der Katholischen Hochschulgemeinde. Kein schlechter Ersatz, denn so können sich Überpünktliche auch schon vor der Debatte ein Bierchen genehmigen (wobei die meisten andere Getränke vorziehen). Vielleicht trägt dies dazu bei, dass die Aachener alle ziemlich pünktlich sind. ...

Two debaters from Debatte Dortmund (DebaDo) set out today to visit debating clubs all over Germany. Jörn Hahn and Jens Schulze report from their endeavor: 16 Debates in 16 Days ...OK, OK, it will actually last 17 days, but maybe we can find some spontaneous debaters at the wedding we are attending. Today, Monday, we will start punctually at 4.09 pm. The first stop in our grand tour through choice debating cities we will engage the Debattierclub Aachen. From this most westerly debating club in Germany we will pass through the living rooms of many clubs in North, South, East and West in ...

Der Debattierclub Aachen hat am 6. Mai einen neuen Vorstand gewählt. Künftig wird Marc-Andre Schulz dem Verein als Vorsitzender dienen, ihm zur Seite gestellt sind seine Stellvertreter Michael Lejeune und Fabian Bonk. Herzlichen Gkückwunsch zur Wahl und viel Erfolg bei der Arbeit!

Der Debattierclub an der RWTH Aachen hat eine neue Internetseite. Auf der Aachener Clubseite sind auch schon erste Turnierberichte aus Aachener Sicht zu finden.

Jahrhundertelang dachte man, Bonn habe kein Dreigestirn. Doch seit dem vergangenen Wochenende wissen wir: Bonn hat mehr als ein Dreigestirn zu bieten. Da waren zum einen: Drei Debattierclubs! Und dann: Drei Trainer! Und dann: Leider nur zwei Tage, die aber lehrreich waren für drei. Spaß für drei hatte natürlich auch jeder einzelne der Teilnehmer! Was war da los? Fast dreißig Debattanten und Debattantinnen aus dem Debattierclub Bonn, dem Debattierclub Aachen und dem Debattierclub Goethes Faust Frankfurt am Main (DCGF) waren am Samstagvormittag in Bonn zusammengekommen, um nur eine Woche vor Karneval ein „Trainingswochenende Debattieren“ in der Hochburg der Frohnaturen zu verbringen. ...