Frankfurter Debattierclub Goethes Faust (DCGF) has elected a new executive board. Andreas Dreher is now president, his deputies are Myriam Tenderra and Marion Seiche.

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 ...

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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 ...

Semi-finalists in Mainz: Heidelberg (607 points) Victoria Reuter, Robin Azinovic and Johannes Sonnenholzner Freiburg (599 points) Zsolt Szilagyi, Johannes Samlenski and Julian von Lautz Frankfurt (571 points) Robert Epple, Andreas Dreher and Paul Utler Mainz (564 points) Jan Papsch, Thore Wojke and Betty Braun To get more information please read the German version!

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

In their general assembly, the Debattierclub Johannes Gutenberg Mainz (DCJG) elected a new executive board. Willy Carlos Witthaut is now president. He is flanked by Clemens Fucker as vice president and Andrea Gau as treasurer.

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Friendliness, lunch, recovery - and what Stefan Hübner, Franziskus Bayer and Tim Richter have to do with it. Twitter, losing one's voice, a huge deb soc and the audience's award of best speaker - and what Jenny Bachmann, Jenny Holm, Nicolas Eberle and Andrea Gau have to do with it. Please read Gudrun Lux' entertaining cover-up on the Western German regional - in Deutsch.

Please find here the cover-ups we have gathered for you on the German regionals. Please do not hesitate to read the German version of this article. There you may learn more on what the press writes about the Western German regional (WDM) as well as what debating societies like DK Wien and DC Freiburg have to say about this year's Southern German regional in Bayreuth. Oliver Hörtensteiner, the tabmaster of this year's Southern German regional put the tab of the competition online. You may also find the tab of WDM 2011 online. glx / apf ...

We proudly present the winners of this year's German regionals: Heidelberg won the Western German regional. Potsdam won the Eastern German regional. Kiel won the Northern German regional. On the weekend previous to the other regionals, Tübingen won the Southern German regional. Congrats to everyone! In the West, Sven Hirschfeld, Kristina Seebacher and Jennifer Holm from Debating Club Heidelberg defeated Nicolas Eberle, Robert Lehmann and Caroline Moll from Debattierclub Johannes Gutenberg Mainz (DCJG). Free speakers - a characteristic of the format OPD, or open parliamentary debate - were Andrea Gau (DCJG), Martin Thelen (DC Bonn) and Sascha Schenkenberg (DCJG). Andrea was awarded most popular speaker of ...

East, West and North have debated all day long in Halle, Frankfurt and Osnabrück to select the best debaters at German regional championships. Format of this year's regionals is OPD, or Offene Parlamentarische Debatte (open parliamentary debate). Achte Minute has all the results for you. ...

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. ...

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Leipzig won the final of ZEIT DEBATTE Mainz 2011! Please read more on this in the German version of this article. ...

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Johanna Mai and Julian Schneider of Debattierclub Münster won Berlin Punk 2010. They faced in the final teams from Frankfurt, Münster and Magdeburg. Motions: Round 1: Dieses Haus würde eine Abstimmpflicht bei Volksentscheiden einführen. Round 2: Dieses Haus würde Organspenden nur noch an Menschen vergeben, die sich ebenfalls zu einer Organspende bereit erklärt haben. Round 3: Dieses Haus würde Briefe, Tagebücher und unveröffentlichte Manuskripte posthum nicht ohne die Einwilligung des/r SchriftstellerIn veröffentlichen. Round 4: Dieses Haus würde Menschen, die unter Alkoholkonsum ein Gewaltverbrechen begangen haben, den Alkoholkonsum verbieten. Round 5: Dieses Haus würde Einrichtungen verbieten, die eine Heilung von Homosexualität versprechen. Semis: Dieses Haus würde es Staaten verbieten, bei der Verteilung von Entwicklungshilfe ihre ehemaligen Kolonien zu bevorzugen. Final: Dieses Haus würde Menschen auch ...

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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. ...

The Frankfurter Debattierclub Goethes Faust (DCGF) hosts a novice night on Wednesday, 20 October, starting at 6 p.m. Welcome to Fachschaftscafé (RuW, room 1.127 at Westend campus) are freshmen as well as older students interested in debating. Guests will be introduced to the idea behind debating, the rules of debating plus they will be presented an introductory debate on “Does Disney give us a wrong picture of love?” Of course, newbies may also debate that night. More info on the novice night is available on DCGF’s website as well as from vorstand[at]dcgf.de. glx / apf

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The next season of the German debating ZEIT DEBATTEN series is set: the general assembly of VDCH, the Association of Debating Societies at Universities, came together in August and decided upon dates and locations of four ZEIT DEBATTEN tournaments, four regional championships and the German debating championship (DDM) 2011. An overview over the coming season 2010/11 is provided here: ...

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Debattierclub Bonn won the Schobbe Cup 2010! In the final round, the team “Die Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo” from Berlin Debating Union in the proposition argued with “Bonn Generations” about net neutrality at Campus Westend of Frankfurt Goethe University. The team of Isabelle Loewe,  Gudrun Lux and Jens Fischer from the former German capital defeated Georg Sommerfeld, Dessislava Kirova and Kai Dietmann from the now capital. Awarded the title as best speaker of the final were two: Jens Fischer from the winning team and Nicolas Eberle from Debattierclub Johannes Gutenberg of Mainz, a so-called Fraktionsfreier Redner, free speaker. There are usually ...

Late at night the Schobbe Cup CA-Team Pauline Leopold and Florian Prischl announced the break to semis. Here it is! Team break: 1. Bonn Generations (Jens Fischer, Isabelle Loewe, Gudrun Lux; 665 Points) 2. Die Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo (Berlin, Kai Dittmann, Dessislava Kirova, Georg Sommerfeld, 622) 3. Eo Ipso Jena (Severin Weingarten, Friederike Meyer zu Wendischhoff, Jonathan Scholbach, 588) 4. Quantenmechanische Juristen (Mainz, Nicolas Eberle, Max Fritz, Natalie Wieseotte, 580) Independent Speakers: Florian Umscheid (Potsdam, 139 Speaker Points) Moritz Kirchner (Potsdam, 139) Peter Etges (Mainz, 135) Daniil Pakhomenko (Mainz, 134) Friederike Ditzen (Mainz, 133) Till Kröger (Heidelberg, 132) Top Ten: 1. Isabelle Loewe (154 Speaker Points) 2. Nicolas Eberle and Gudrun Lux (je 151) 4. Jens Fischer ...

Schobbe-Cup takes it second round hosted by the Frankfurt debating society Goethes Faust (DCGF). The tournament starts today well after lunch at 1 p.m., which lets the teams from all over Germany travel to Frankfurt conveniently. Fifteen teams of debaters from Berlin, Bonn, Dortmund, Jena, Heidelberg, Karlsruhe, Mainz, Munich, Münster, Paderborn, Potsdam, Stuttgart and Tübingen are going to compete for the Schobbe-Cup 2010. The style of debate is the well spread German format Offene Parlamentarische Debatte (OPD, open parliamentary debate). Today will see three preliminary rounds while tonight awaits the debaters with socials at Café KoZ and a midnight debate. Sunday is ...

Two debaters from Debatte Dortmund (DebaDo) set out last week to visit debating clubs all over Germany. Jörn Hahn and Jens Schulze report from their stops nine to eleven. (The following part is not or not yet available in English. Please check back later.)