Berlin Debating Union

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The Berlin Debating Union e. V. (short: BDU ) is the German and English speaking debating club of the Berlin universities . Founded in 1999, the association with around 100 members today has developed into one of the largest and most successful national and international debating clubs in Germany. The BDU became German champions in 2002 and 2014, organized the championship in 2001, 2008 and 2014 itself, reached final rounds at European and world championships and hosted the 2006 European championships and the 2013 world championships .

history

The Berlin Debating Union began with regular debates under the name "Streitzeit (Berlin Debating Union)", founded by Jens Fischer and Kai Monheim in autumn 1999 at the Otto Suhr Institute of the Free University of Berlin . Issues were debated with the audience in public forums. The competition-oriented debating in British Parliamentary Style started with the move to the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 2002 it was formally founded as the Berlin Debating Union eV Debating Club in Berlin . In the same year, the young club hosted the first German debating championship.

From the beginning, the BDU cultivated both its national and its international profile. So she was not only successful from the start in the German-language tournament series of the ZEIT Debatten and won the German championship in 2002, but also initiated the Central and Eastern European Debating Tournament (CEET) in Berlin and presented the best German at the European Championships in Zagreb in 2003 Team and the best German speaker. The BDU also took part in the 2003 World Cup in Stellenbosch, South Africa . The upward trend in participation in international tournaments continued in Istanbul , Prague , Oxford , Vilnius , Dubrovnik , Cork , Rotterdam , Gdansk and numerous other competitions. For CEET 2004, the BDU received around 80 participants from eleven countries, for the Berlin Open 2005 39 teams from 19 countries. In 2006, the Berlin Debating Union hosted the European Universities Debating Championship , and in 2008 again the German Championship.

Lately successes

  • Victory at the German-speaking Debate Championship 2018 in Jena
  • Victory at the German-speaking Debate Championship 2014
  • ESL victory at the World Championship ( WUDC ) 2014 in Chennai
  • Final of the German Debate Championship 2013
  • Victory at Stockholm IV 2013
  • Victory at the Zeit Debate Marburg 2013
  • Overall victory of the Free Debating League in the 2012/2013 season; best individual speaker
  • ESL final of the European Championship 2012 in Belgrade
  • Overall victory of the Free Debating League in the 2011/2012 season; best individual speaker
  • Final of the German Debating Championship 2012 in Vienna (2 teams), best final speaker
  • Victory and best individual speech at the North German Debating Championship 2012 in Kiel
  • Victory in the invitation tournament, 3 teams in the final
  • ESL final of the World Championship ( WUDC ) 2012 in Manila, Philippines
  • Victory and best final speaker at the Zeit Debatte Karlsruhe 2011
  • Overall victory of the Free Debating League in the 2010/2011 season; Best individual speaker, including five individual tournament victories
  • Semifinals of the Belgrade Open (Serbia) and the Jacobs Open (Bremen) 2011
  • best speaker at the East German Debate Championship 2011 in Halle
  • Victory at Paris Intervarsity 2011 in the ESL language category
  • Final of the time debate Stuttgart 2011
  • ESL quarter-finals and fourth-best ESL individual speaker of the World Cup ( WUDC ) 2011 in Gaborone, Botswana
  • Victory at the North German Championship 2010 in Hanover
  • Final of the German Debate Championship 2010 in Münster (2 teams)
  • Victory at the Zeit Debatte Tübingen 2010
  • ESL quarter finals of the European Championship ( EUDC ) 2009 in Newcastle upon Tyne, England
  • Semi-finals of the German Debate Championship 2009 in Mainz
  • Victory at the Northeast German Championship 2009 in Magdeburg
  • Best speaker on points at the German Championship 2003 in Tübingen
  • Victory at the German Championship 2002 in the Saxon State Parliament, Dresden (best team, best speaker on points, best speaker of the final)
  • Final of the German Championship 2001 in Berlin

Hosting the 2013 World Cup

On January 1, 2011, the BDU successfully applied to the Council of the World Universities Debating Championship (WUDC) 2011 in Gaborone to host the WUDC 2013 in Berlin. This will be the first World Debate Championship in Germany and will be held from December 27, 2012 to January 4, 2013 in Berlin. The motto of the 33rd edition of the largest international debating tournament is “Embracing Dissent. The power of contradiction ”.

1,400 young people from more than 50 countries come to the federal capital as speakers, jurors or helpers. The 800 speakers compete for the title of world champion in three language categories: English as a Proficient Language (EPL), English as a Second Language (ESL) or English as a Foreign Language (EFL). The main judges Sharmila Parmanand (Philippines) and Douglas Cochran (England) with their assistants Victor Finkel (Australia), Isabelle Fischer (Germany) and James Kilcup (USA) take care of the content of the tournament by setting the topic. They are supported by 300 jurors in assessing the speaking achievements.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ EUDC Council: The Championships. Organization teams
  2. ↑ WUDC Berlin 2013 ( Memento of the original from September 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / wudcberlin.com
  3. ^ Entry in the register of associations at the Berlin-Charlottenburg District Court, No. VR 21574, "Berlin Debating Union eV Debattierclub zu Berlin" from April 17, 2002.
  4. ^ Berlin Debating Union eV: The History of the Berlin Debating Union ( Memento from June 25, 2007 in the Internet Archive )