The new ZEIT DEBATTEN series begins! This weekend (November 23 to 25), speakers and judges from all over Germany, Switzerland, Austria and even France flock at Tübingen. Language of the tournament, as in the whole series, is German, the ZEIT DEBATTE Tübingen will be held in Offene Parlamentarische Debatte (open parliamentary debate, OPD). Chief adjudicators are Philipp Stiel (German Champion 2010, Tübingen/Berlin) sowie Wiebke Nadler (Leipzig/Heidelberg) and Leonid Vogel (Karlsruhe). The tournament series ZEIT DEBATTEN is organised by VDCH, the Association of Debating Societies at Universities, in cooperation with the weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT and German Telekom as well as with the ...

On October 5 and 6, many presidents of the local debating societies from under the umbrella of VDCH (the Association of Debating Societies at Universities, or Verband der Debattierclubs an Hochschulen) are going to assemble at the publishing house of DIE ZEIT in Hamburg. The main sponsor of the tournament series ZEIT DEBATTEN is going to give insight into the work of the editorial team of one of the largest weekly newspapers in Germany. The debaters are going to talk to the editor-at-large, the chief editors of theprint as well as the online issue and many others.

The next big event of the ZEIT DEBATTEN is already announced: Streitkultur Tübingen will convene the first ZEIT DEBATTE in the 2012/2013 season. The German speaking debating circuit will meet in Tübingen from November 23 to 25. Language of the tournament, as in the whole series, is German, the ZEIT DEBATTE Tübingen will be held in OPD (open parliamentary debate). Chief adjudicators are 2010 German champion Philipp Stiel (Tübingen/Berlin), Wiebke Nadler (Leipzig/Heidelberg) and Leo Vogel (Karlsruhe) The tournament series ZEIT DEBATTEN is organised by VDCH, the Association of Debating Societies at Universities, in cooperation with the weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT and ...

Here's the VDCH hall of fame - the new table after the ZEIT DEBATTEN 11th season: Rang Club Punkte 1 Berlin 66 (+3, +1, +5, +1, +4) Winner ZD Karlsruhe, Finalist ZD Magdeburg, Winner and twice Finalist NODM Kiel, Finalist ZD Münster, twice Finalist MDD Wien) 2 Mainz 52 (+3, +3) Winner ZD Magdeburg, Winner MDM Jena 3 Tübingen 45 4 Münster 42 5 (+1) Heidelberg (DCH) 37 (+1, +3) Finalist ZD Hamburg, Winner SDM Ingolstadt 6 (-1) Jena 33 7 (+4) München 21 (+1, +2, +1, +5) Finalist ZD Karlsruhe, twice Finalist SDM Ingolstadt, Finalist ZD Münster, Winner MDD Wien) 8 (-1) Göttingen 17 9 (-1) Freiburg 14 10 (-1) Bonn 13 10 (-1) Halle 13 12 Greifswald 11 13 Kiel 9 14 Potsdam 8 (+1) Finalist NODM Kiel 14 (+1) Magdeburg 8 (+2) twice Finalist MDM Jena 16 (-1) St. Gallen 6 16 (-1) Köln Tilbury 6 16 (+3) Hamburg 6 (+1, ...

Deb socs in Germany, Austria and Switzerland - get your applications ready for hosting a ZEIT DEBATTE in the upcoming season of 2012/2013! Please read more on the details in the German version of this article. More info is also available on the VDCH website. The ZEIT DEBATTEN series with at least five major tournaments has been staged in alternating cities for more than a decade under the patronage of the former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Part of it is also the German language debating championship (Meisterschaft im deutschsprachigen Debattieren or MDD) Behind the serie are VDCH (Verband der Debattierclubs an ...

 

 

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Break at ZEIT DEBATTE Karlsruhe 2011 - here it is! ...

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, ...

Please read the German version of this article to learn about winners, runner-ups, motions, special awards and to find pics from the black-tie party that the DebatingClub Heidelberg threw during the German Debating Championship, or Deutsche Debattiermeisterschaft (DDM). ...

This article is not available in English. Please read the German version to learn about how ten years back Michael Hoppmann, now professor in Boston, founded the Offene Parlamentarische Debatte (OPD), or open parliamentary debate, a format widely spread in German language debating. ...

Sina Strupp from Mainz won the award for being the up-and-coming debater awarded by Deutsche Debattiergesellschaft (DDG), the German alumni society. ...

Severin Weingarten, Moritz Niehaus and Clemens Lechner of Debattiergesellschaft Jena won the 11th German Debating Championship. More informations to follow soon. Please read the German version meanwhile.

This article is not available in English. Please read the German version to learn about how the team from Jena gained a reputation to always go second in the German Championship. ...

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. ...

This article is not available in English. Please read the German version to learn about how Patrick Ehmann loves trees. ...

Heidelberg calling: Debaters from all places on the German language debating circuit assemble by the river Neckar to compete for the title at German Nationals, or Deutsche Debattiermeisterschaft (DDM). 45 Teams from 34 debating societies follow the call of Debating Club Heidelberg: Aachen, Bayreuth, Berlin, Bonn, Dortmund, Dresden, Frankfurt, Freiburg, Göttingen, Graz, Halle, Hamburg, Heidelberg, Ingolstadt, Jena, Karlsruhe, Kiel, Köln, Leipzig, Magdeburg, Mainz, Marburg, Mannheim, München, Münster, Potsdam, Salzburg, Stuttgart, St. Gallen, Tübingen, Wien and Zürich. Internationally speaking, the 11. DDM gets more attention than ever: Four societies from Austria and two from Switzerland will participate in the tournament held ...

37 Debating Societies from Germany, Austria and Switzerland have registered for the German Debating Championship (Deutsche Debattiermeisterschaft, DDM). Theses are societies from: Germany Aix-la-Chapelle Bayreuth Berlin (BDU and SK) Bonn Cologne Dortmund Dresden Duisburg-Essen Frankfurt Freiburg im Breisgau Göttingen Halle Hamburg Heidelberg Ingolstadt Jena Karlsruhe Kiel Leipzig Magdeburg Mainz Mannheim Marburg Munich Münster Osnabrück Potsdam Regensburg Stuttgart Tübingen Austria Graz Salzburg Wien (AFA and DK) Switzerland St. Gallen Zurich The German debating Championship will be staged in Heidelberg from 9 to 12 June. Format will be the Open Parliamentary Debate (OPD) widely spread in the German speaking debating circuit. The Debating Club Heidelberg (DCH), then German debating champion in 2004, will now be host to Germany’s largest tournament. Chief adjudicators are going to be Gudrun Lux, Jan Lüken, Marcus Ewald and Tim Richter.

This is an article on the judge registration for German Nationals (DDM, or Deutsche Debattiermeisterschaft). Please read the German version of it. Hurry up, register for DDM! ...

This is an article on the first phase of registration for German National (DDM, or Deutsche Debattiermeisterschaft). Please read the German version of it to learn more about who's in and who's not - yet. Hurry up, register for DDM! ...

We're sorry, this article is not available in English. Please got to the German version of this article to learn about how teams are allocated for DDM (German National, or Deutsche Debattiermeisterschaft).

Registration for the German Debating Championship is open from now on! Debating societies which are members of VDCH (Verband der Debattierclubs an Hochschulen, engl. Association of Debating Societies at Universities) are allowed to register their teams for the biggest annual debating tournament in Germany. Teams from Germany itself, Switzerland, Austria and maybe even Italy are expected to participate. Registration details are published online, see www.ddm-heidelberg.de. The German Debating Championship will be staged in Heidelberg from 9 to 12 June 2011. Convenors are Jenny Holm, Kristina Seebacher, Till Kroeger and Daniel Sommer, the CA-team is formed by Tim Richter,  Gudrun Lux, Jan Lüken ...

Please read the German version of this comment on the ZEIT DEBATTE in Stuttgart from our correspondents Kristina Seebacher and Jennifer Marlene Holm from Heidelberg. ...

Please read the German version of this article if you want to learn more on the requirements for the qualification of judges for the German debating championship (DDM) of 2011. 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 on the German speaking debating circuit. The Debating Club Heidelberg (DCH), then German debating champion in 2004, will now be host to Germany’s largest tournament where at least 45 teams will participate. The ZEIT DEBATTEN series is convened by VDCH in ...

The Debating Club Heidelberg announced the German Debating Championship's complete CA team.  Former VDCH-president and Western German Champion of 2008 Tim Richter from the Debattierclub Bonn will join the already announced Chief adjudicators Gudrun Lux (Debattierclub Bonn), Jan Lüken (WFI Debattierclub Ingolstadt) and Marcus Ewald (DCJG Mainz). 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, then German debating champion in 2004, will now be host to Germany’s largest tournament. The ZEIT ...

On 4 November, the Debattiergesellschaft Jena (DGJ) organised its annual ZEIT DEBATTEN evening, which is a public debating contest between students and professors. In the last years, the exhibition debate that is generously supported by the weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT had inspired a lot of spectators and made them familiar with debating in general. This year the team of professors consisted of Eberhard Eichenhofer (Law), Alfred Fahr (Biology/Pharmaceutics) and Andreas Freytag (Economics). Speaking for DGJ were Clemens Lechner, Friederike Meyer zu Wendischhoff and Jonathan Scholbach - Clemens being a German Debating Championship finalist of three times, Friederike and Jonathan finalists ...

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Halle for the first time enters the Top Ten in the VDCH hall of fame, and now draws with Bonn. Munich and Greifswald are victims of Halle’s victory in Greifswald and lose a few places. A new entry on the list is Bremen (Hanse Debating Union, HDU). Jena underscores its position as one of Germany’s top clubs, and Mainz was able to secure a point this last weekend, although this was in debating, not in football. This was an awaited recovery, after Mainz had disappointed during the German Championships in June. The top seated Berlin Debating Union did not win any ...