The general assembly of VDCH (Verband der Debattierclubs an Hochschulen), the umbrella organisation of over 70 german-speaking debating clubs at universities, has elected a new executive board on August 31. Florian Umscheid (Berlin/Bamberg) was elected president by the representatives; vice presidents are Tobias Kube (Marburg), Jennifer Holm (Heidelberg) and Alexander Labinsky (Dresden).   The Achte Minute congratulates the new board and wishes them best of success for their term of office! kem

The third season of the Free Debating League begins with two new coordinators Irene Adamski and Florian Umscheid. FDL is a series of opens and smaller tournaments in addition to the big tournaments of the ZEIT DEBATTEN series. FDL tournaments have to be held in German, so please check the German version for mor information.

Christmas cookies and debating: The Debattierclub Münster offers both with their Santa Claus tournament. The tournament will be held in German on Saturday, 1 December, in British Parliamentary Style (BPS) and comprises three pre-rounds and break into final. Registration is not yet posible but please save the date! Facts: Münsteraner Nikolausturnier 1. December BPS, German Pro-Am CAs: Manuel Adams and Marietta Gädeke Reg not yet posible

Dortmund and Greifswald are the last two German language debating tournaments of this year's FDL season. Please read the German version of this to learn more about the details. More info is available from the FDL Blog. pst / apf

 

 

Die Debattiergesellschaft verhält sich schon in ihrem jugendlichen Alter von 10 Jahren wie eine adlige grande dame der Pariser Kunstszene: Sie ist eine rege Gastgeberin von mal größeren, mal kleineren Turnieren: Sie hat nicht nur zahlreiche ZEIT DEBATTEN und Regionalmeisterschaften für den VDCH ausgerichtet, sondern begrüßt alljährlich ihre Gäste zu einem Freundschaftsturnier. Diese Tradition ist Teil des Jenaer Selbstverständnisses: Als Debattierclub aktiv zu sein heißt nicht nur regelmäßig im Club zu debattieren, öffentliche Debatten abzuhalten und auf Debattierturniere zu fahren, sondern auch, selbst zu solchen Debattiergesellschaften einzuladen. Das Jenaer Freundschaftsturnier ist, verglichen mit den großen Events der ZEIT DEBATTEN und den ...

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Please read the German version to learn more about this tournament in Marburg, which is named after the famous collectors of folk tales Brothers Grimm.

 

 

New FDL results: Tübingen (44) Mainz (37) Heidelberg Debating (34) AFA Wien (20), Hamburg (20) Top speakers FDL: Philipp Stiel (44) Willy Witthaut (38) Zsolt Szilagyi (35) Read more in this in the German version.

Julian Ohm and Barbara Schunicht from Debattierclub Hamburg won the Berlin Punk 2012. They defeated Andreas Lazar and Roxanna Noll from Debattierclub Stuttgart and two teams from Berlin Debating Union: Jonas Werner and Katja Krüger aswell as Christina Dexel and Lilian Seffer. The final motion read “Dieses Haus glaubt, dass Menschenversuche Richtern als Strafmaß zur Verfügung stehen sollten.“ ...

FDL Rankings after round 2: 1. Heidelberg Debating (34 points) 2. Mainz (32) 3. Freiburg, Tübingen (19) 5. München (14) The top five speakers: 1. Zsolt Szilagyi (35 Punkte) 2. Almut Graebsch, Victoria Reuter (30) 4. Peter Croonenbroeck (26) 5. Jan Papsch, Willy Witthaut (24) Manuel Adams / apf

The Gutenberg-Cup was the first round of the Freie Debattierliga, or free debating league (FDL). According to the rules of the FDL (in German only), the preliminary results are the following: Institutions: Mainz Freiburg Heidelberg (Debating) Frankfurt Marburg Speakers Victoria Reuter Zsolt Szilagyi Jan Papsch Robert Epple Michael Powala, Johannes Samlenski, Thore Wojke The Freie Debattierliga, or free debating league (FDL) is a loose association of debating societies staging local tournaments in German speaking Central Europe. It encompasses the year-round competition between both deb socs and speakers. This season is the second season after the founding during the course of the general assembly of the Association of Debating Societies at Universities (VDCH) in ...

Mainz won the Gutenberg Cup! Please read the German version of this article to learn more about the details.

The second season of the Free Debating League begins with two new coordinators Daniil Pakhomenko and Manuel Adams who succeed Lukas Haffert, the former vice-president of the Association of Debating Societies at Universities, or VDCH. FDL isa series of opens and smaller tournaments in addition to the big tournaments of the ZEIT DEBATTEN series. The first season's winner was the WUDC 2013 host Berlin Debating Union. xzy / apf

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 ...

Nothing less than the most prestigious club title is at stake: This weekend, over 100 debaters from Germany, Switzerland and Austria will converge on the small college-town of Tübingen for the Streitkultur-Cup, the open club championship of Streitkultur Tübingen. On Saturday, 27 teams of three debaters will face off in three preliminary rounds to take one of the two spots in the final (or one of the three spots for single speakers), taking place in the evening. Traditionally, the final takes place in the Old Anatomical Building. Streitkultur-Cup uses the Open Parliamentary Debate (OPD) format developed in Tübingen. Particularly the widely ...

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

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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 ...

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. ...