Debating Society Germany e.V.
Konrad-Adenauer foundation invites to nationwide German-speaking tournament
Debaters interested in attending a German-speaking debate tournament about playing the role of a fictional European president are invited to send this application form to the respective address.
Deadline for application: 2 MARCH 2012
This invitation has reached us through our co-operation with the German-speaking University Debate Association VDCH. Please contact us if you need more information:
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Team Germany scores late wins in Capetown
After ten days of debating, Team Germany arrived back home from Captetown's WSDC 2012 in late January after winning three out of eight preliminary debates - just like in Dundee, Scotland last year. Louisa Benk, Bhavesh Agarwal, Sophia Jaimes-Ramos, Felix Jiang and Antonia Schmidt have shown great discipline and positivity after winning only one debate during the first six rounds, when they, on the last day, didn't hang their heads and won against both India and the Czech Republic. Congratulations for this great achievement! The speakers have been great representatives of German debating in Capetown and have scored a respectable 36th place out of 48 participating nations, on top of all the excellent new contacts and friendships made, cultures and Capetown experienced and overall having enjoyed a wonderful trip as a team.
Completing the delegation were coach and team manager Marie Schreier (Uni Tübingen), judge Klaus-Peter Heil (Parler-GYM, Schwäbisch Gmünd) and judge Christopher Sanchez (Max-Born-GYM, Backnang), who would eventually have the great privilege of judging the Grand Final. In this final, Scotland beat Wales 8:1 and became new WSDC Champion 2012. Congratulations!!
Judge Klaus-Peter Heil (Parler-GYM, Schw. Gmünd), Felix Jiang (LGH Schw. Gmünd), Sophia Jaimes-Ramos (Max-Born-GYM, Backnang), coach/team manager Marie Schreier (Uni Tübingen), Antonia Schmidt (St. Benno-GYM, Dresden), Louisa Benk (Parler-GYM, Schw. Gmünd), judge Christopher Sanchez (Max-Born-GYM, Backnang), Bhavesh Agarwal (H.-v.-Gagern-GYM, Frankfurt/Main)
See more info about the German delegation here
or: http://teamgermanywsdc.org/
Newspaper articles on the Germany team:
http://www.bkz-online.de/node/338786
http://www.fnp.de/fnp/region/lokales/frankfurt/der-wortjongleur-vom-gagern_rmn01.c.9603656.de.html
BBC / English Speaking Union (ESU) Award 2012 launched
We're proud to announce the launch of the BBC/ESU Public Speaking Awards in Germany! This is an event for individual speakers, not teams, and will be run on a pilot basis this year in the Berlin/Brandenburg/Saxony region. If everything goes as we expect, then it will be expanded to the whole country for the 2012/2013 academic year. We're running this event with our partners BBC World News, Deutsche Telekom and the English-Speaking Union and the generous support of the British Embassy in Berlin. If you're interested in taking part, then please visit the BBC/ESU Awards page of this website!
Turkey A wins EurOpen 2011
Turkey A has won this year's EurOpen 2011 Schools Debating Championship! Congratulations! Runners-up are Alberta after performing in a brilliantly entertaining Grand Final which ended 5-2 in favor of Turkey A, who were opposing on the motion "This house believes that the pen is mightier than the sword".
Our sincerest thanks go to all 38 teams that have visited our tournament here in Stuttgart. We've had a great time organising it and we hope you had a great time debating and meeting the other teams. It's been a pleasure having you all here!!
Hoping to see you again next year for EurOpen 2012!!
from left to right:
Jason Lamb (Alberta), Joen Rowledge (Alberta), Zach Shapiro (Alberta), Safak Kilic (Turkey A), Mert Zorlular (Turkey A), Kaan Ülgen (Turkey A)
Follow this link for the results
Yours,
Debating Society Germany e.V.
Germany brings home three wins from WSDC 2011
Germany lost both debates in split decisions on MON, 22 AUG, the last of the prliminary rounds days (2:1 v Hong Kong and 2:1 to Czech Republic), which leaves us with three wins, five losses, three of them split - that's ten ballots. Sadly, the tournament is over for us, but it's been great having Dilek Sevinc, Viola Schramm, Karoline Schlotthauer, Felix Jiang, Kai Ohmstedt and coach Jana Gilke on the delegation in Dundee who have left a great impression on everyone nonetheless, and have been great assets to representing Germany at WSDC. As a happy surprise, Christopher Sanchez was selected to judge up to the semi-finals.
Thank you very much and see you again in Capetown 2012!
Read a short report on the VDCH webpage (in German)
German delegation: Kai Ohmstedt, Felix Jiang, Christian Steck (back, Judge), Dilek Sevinc, Christopher Sloan (Judge), Christopher Sanchez (Team Manager, Judge), Jana Gilke (Coach), Karoline Schlotthauer, Viola Schramm
