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 ...

Simeon Reusch, VDCH vice-president knows the answer: South: Debating soieties from Switzerland, Austria, Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria Central: Deb socs from Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Saarland and Thuringia North: Deb socs from Berlin, Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, Lower Saxony, Northrhine-Westphalia und Schleswig-Holstein Chief adjudicators for the tourneys from 21 to 22 April are: Marcus Ewald and Jan Lüken, for the South, to be held in Ingolstadt Benedikt Nufer and Michael Saliba, for the North, to be held in Kiel Pauline Leopold and Clemens Lechner, for the Center, to be held in Jena Language of debate is German, all competitions will be held in the format of BPS.

The German language ZEIT DEBATTEN series is taking on again in the (not so) new year - this time with a stop in Hamburg. Please read the German version of this to read more on the convenors, the chief adjudication core and the socials. To get current news from ZEIT DEBATTE Hamburg please follow Achte Minute on Twitter and look out for the hashtag #ZDhh.

The second ZEIT DEBATTE is on. Read more about the tournament in Hamburg in the German version.

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, three regional championships and the German debating championship (MDD) 2012. An overview over the coming season 2011/12 is provided here: ZEIT DEBATTE Karlsruhe, 25 to 27 November 2011 Organised by Debatte Karlsruhe, CAs Yin Cai (DC Heidelberg), Christoph Krakowiak and Mario Dießner (both SK Berlin), ormat OPD. ZEIT DEBATTE Hamburg, 13. to 15. Januar 2012 Organised by Debattierclub Hamburg, ...

The biggest festival in northern Europe - that's Kieler Woche. The debating society of the University of Kiel gave a debate there - please read the German version of this article to learn about the details.

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. ...

Hooray and boohoo: Just eight teams out of 24 had the chance to break at the ZEIT DEBATTEN series kick-off that opens the current season of 2010/2011. Here are the teams that compete for the break into finals on Sunday morning at Greifswald by the Baltic Sea. ...

Im Kreishaus Schleswig-Flensburgs traten am vergangenen Donnerstag 16 Schülerinnen und Schüler in Zweierteams zum Debattieren an. Sie kämpften dabei alle einerseits um den Pokal der ersten Debattiermeisterschaft der Gymnasien im Kreis Schleswig-Flensburg, andererseits wollten sie dabei auch ihre erworbenen rhetorischen Fähigkeiten anwenden. Das Projekt geht auf Andreas Kirberger zurück. Dank der Unterstützung der Heinz-Wüstenberg-Stiftung konnte er an 16 Schülerinnen und Schüler der verschiedenen Gymnasien im Kreis Stipendien vergeben. An sechs Trainingstagen zu je acht Stunden lernten die Jugendlichen allerlei über die Grundlagen der Rhetorik in den Räumlichkeiten des Berufsbildungszentrums in Schleswig. Die Veranstaltung im Kreishaus bildete den großen Abschluss des Rhetoriktrainings und ...

An vielen deutschsprachigen Universitäten bereits etabliert, zieht Debattieren immer weitere Kreise. Viele VDCH-Clubs unterstützen bereits einzelne Schulprojekte. Aktuell stoßen Andreas Kirberger, ehemaliger Präsident des Debattierclub der Universität Kiel, und Bernd Hoefer, ehemaliges Präsidiumsmitglied von VDCH und DDG, ein Nachwuchs-Projekt in Schleswig-Holstein an. Das berichtet das Flensburger Tagblatt in seiner heutigen Ausgabe. ...

Facts: January 13 to 15, 2012 Hamburg OPD (Offene Parlamentarische Debatte, or Open Parliamentary Debate) Five prelims Chief adjudicators: Pauline Leopold, Willy Witthaut, Benedikt Nufer The ZEIT DEBATTEN series is convened by VDCH in cooperation with the weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT and Deutsche Telekom, supported through VDCH’s media partner ZDF, a German public broadcaster. It has been a decade now since the first ZEIT DEBATTEN series kicked off with at least five annual tournaments, among them the German debating championship. This is now season eleven which comprises four regular tournaments and the German language debating championship. ...

There will be three parallel regional debating championships across Germany in April. Facts: South: Ingolstadt Chief adjudicators: Marcus Ewald, Jan Lüken East: Jena Chief adjudicators: Pauline Leopold, Clemens Lechner North: Kiel Chief adjudicators: Michael Saliba, Benedikt Nufer Format: BPS