Please read the German version of this article on the adjudication workshop held in Wiesbaden from 26 to 28 November hosted by the Association of Debating Societies at Universities (VDCH).

The Berlin Debating Union (BDU) has made a decision: They want to bring the Worlds to Germany! On Saturday, Patrick Ehmann, John Eltringham and Cloud Ramasendaran are going to present their bid for convening the World Universities Debating Championships at the Oxford IV. The support of VDCH, the Association of Debating Societies at Universities, facilitated the decision of Berlin Debating Union: “Only because we know we have the German debating circuit to support us we dare to do this,” BDU president Patrick admits. He is even more delighted to have other German debaters at the Oxford IV to back BDU’s presentation ...

Mixed teams of all kind are welcome at the Streitkultur Cup 2010. That comprises novices and experienced speakers, male and female debaters, and even debaters from different institutions. The most renowned open competition on the German speaking debating circuit will take place on 11 December in Tübingen and will be held in the format of OPD (open parliamentary debate, a format developed by the hosting society), hence teams of three may now register via vorstand[at]streitkultur.net. Please let your host, the famous Streitkultur Tübingen, know how many teams your institution is going to send to the tournament. Registration fees are 10 Euros ...

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Good news for those who already count down to the German debating championship 2011 staged in Heidelberg: Delete a fortnight from your count-down calendar! The most important tournament in German language was re-scheduled, it will now take place from 9 to 12 June 2011, as VDCH (Association of Debating Societies at Universities) vice president Benedikt Nufer reports. The German debating Championship will be staged in Heidelberg from 9 to 12 June 2011. Format will be OPD, the open parliamentary debate widely spread in the German speaking debating circuit. The Debating Club Heidelberg (DCH), then German ...

The general assembly of VDCH (the Association of Debating Societies at Universities) elected a new president and his deputies: Jan Lüken, Benedikt Nufer, Marcus Ewald and Esther Reinert constitute the new VDCH executive board. Achte Minute presents a first introduction: ...

The Debattierclub Hamburg has elected a new executive board. Kira Lancker is now president, Benedikt Nufer and Daniel Schradick her deputies.

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