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

This article is not available in English. Please read the German version to learn about which teams, free speakers and adjudicators made it to octos at the Deutsche Debattiermeisterschaft (DDM), or German Championship in Heidelberg. ...

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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! ...

The Association of Debating Societies at Universities (VDCH) has now grown to 70 debating societies. The umbrella association represents debating societies in Germany, Austria, Italy and Switzerland. Jan Lüken, current president of VDCH, is proud to announce that just recently four new debating societies have become members of VDCH. These are AFA Wien, Debattierclub Zürich, DUEbattierclub Duisburg-Essen and Streitkultur Berlin. Streitkultur Berlin is a kind of "branch" of Streitkultur Tübingen and as such an advocat for the format OPD (open parliamentary debate, a format widely spread in Germany). The executive board is formed by Christoph Krakowiak, Helen Leutloff and Julia Dragon. ...

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.  ...

A new debating union has been founded: last thursday, four students founded the "DUEbattierclub" in Duisburg: Paul Wypych, Philip Scharf, Markus Krümpel and Jörn Hahn, former vice-president of the debating union in Dortmund. During the first debates of this new union all four had strong support: vice-president of the VDCH, the Association of Debating Societies at Universities (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy), Esther Reinert, Lukas Haffert, debater in Cologne and Oliver Knüpfler, president of the debatig union in Münster.

Two debaters from Debatte Dortmund (DebaDo) set out in summer to visit debating clubs all over Germany. Jörn Hahn and Jens Schulze now presented a video about their trip. Have fun watching Es gibt immer eine Begründung - Gespräche mit deutschen Debattierern. (In German, no subtitles.) msi / glx

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! ...

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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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 last stop. (The following part is not or not yet available in English. Please check back later.)

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 twelve to fourteen. (The following part is not or not yet available in English. Please check back later.)

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.)

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 six to eight. (The following part is not or not yet available in English. Please check back later.)

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 ...

"Religionen sind nicht die Wurzel allen Übels, aber sie haben dazu beigetragen, dass die Geschichte der Menschheit eine Geschichte der Unmenschlichkeit war". Mit dieser provokanten These stieg Michael Schmidt-Salomon in die Debatte ein. "Deutschlands Chef-Atheist" (so Der Spiegel) war erster Pro-Sprecher zur Frage "Leben wir ohne Religion(en) besser?" bei der Dritten Bayreuther Debatte, zu der der VDCH-Club Akademie für politisch-institutionelle Konfliktsimulation (AKPIKS) illustre Gäste geladen hatte. Religionskritiker und Religionsbefürworter traten jeweils zu dritt an. Jeder Redner durfte acht Minuten lang reden, Zwischenfragen und -rufe gab es nicht. Das führte leider dazu, dass die Reden recht statisch waren; wenig gingen die Redner aufeinander ...