Debating Club Johannes Gutenberg

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The debaters after a speech duel (2013)

The debating club Johannes Gutenberg eV (short: DCJG ), founded in 2002, is the debating club of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz . It is one of the largest and most successful German-speaking debating clubs. He managed to win the title of German Master twice (2003 and 2007), and every year between 2003 and 2008, speakers from Mainz took part in the finals of the German Debate Championship (DDM) and thus became German runner-up four times. In 2009, the DCJG, as the organizer of the DDM itself, was not allowed to start. This makes it the most successful club at the German Debate Championship to date.

In the eternal best list of the ZEIT debates of the umbrella association VDCH , the club is currently in second place with 46 points. The DCJG also reached second place in the Free Debating League of the 2010/11 season. Since April 2010, the DCJG is West German runner-up.

history

The students Hanna Kaspar, Patrick Proner and Björn-Chistian Haße founded the club. The first tournament the club took part in was the Eisenach ZEIT debate in May 2002. Since then, the DCJG has regularly participated in national tournaments.

Since 2002 the club has been a member of the umbrella organization, the Association of Debating Clubs at Universities (VDCH). DCJGlers were elected a total of five times by the general assembly of the umbrella association in its board: in 2003/04 Hanna Kaspar was vice-presidents, from 2007 to 2009 Gudrun Lux and in 2010/11 Marcus Ewald. VDCH President for the 2006/07 season was Simon Herrmann.

Tournament hosting

To date, the DCJG has hosted six tournaments in the renowned ZEIT debate series (2003, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2011), including the German Debate Championship in June 2009 with around 200 participants from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. At the last Mainz ZEIT debate in January 2011, a team from Leipzig (government) prevailed against the opposition from Jena in the final. The best final speaker was the free speaker Magnus Schmagold (Göttingen). The chief jurors were Marcel Giersdorf (DCJG), Lukas Haffert (Tilbury House Cologne) and Peter Croonenbroeck (Streitkultur Tübingen).

In addition, the club has organized the Gutenberg Cup once a year since summer 2008, a tournament that is held outside of the ZEIT Debates series. Since 2009, only so-called “fun debates” have been contested at this tournament, ie debates that are explicitly intended to be entertaining and also deal with bizarre or very open topics. The Gutenberg Cup is the only tournament in German-speaking countries with this focus. Since October 2010, it has also been the opening tournament of the Free Debating League , which was founded in August 2010.

The DCJG tournaments are and have usually been held in the Open Parliamentary Debate (OPD) format . The ZEIT debate in 2005, which was held in "Format 05" developed by the DCJG, was an exception. The title is an allusion to both the Mainz sports club 1. FSV Mainz 05 and the shortened speaking time, which, in contrast to OPD, is five minutes instead of seven. However, the format did not establish itself permanently.

"Mainz Model"

At the Mainz ZEIT debate in 2011, the tournament mode with five preliminary rounds, developed by Bastian Laubner of the Berlin Debating Union and now known as the Mainz model , was used for the first time at an OPD tournament . Normally, the number of preliminary rounds in OPD tournaments must be divisible by 3, so that, for reasons of equal opportunities, all teams take on the role of government, opposition and freelance speaker with equal frequency. For reasons of time, three preliminary rounds are usually held before the elimination rounds in the knockout system begin, usually with the quarter-finals.

In the ZEIT debate, there was no quarter-finals in which the best eight teams made it, instead there were fourth and fifth preliminary rounds. In these, the best 18 of a total of 27 teams were allowed to debate once again as government and opposition and had the chance of making it to the semi-finals. The speakers of the nine teams, which as a team no longer had a chance of the semi-finals, acted as free speakers in the two additional preliminary rounds. In addition, all 81 speakers (27 teams of three speakers) still had the opportunity to move into the semi-finals as free speakers, regardless of whether their team had already been eliminated or not.

The advantage of this system is that after the first three preliminary rounds, not just eight, but 18 teams continue to debate together. In addition, all speakers and jurors are given more opportunity to actively participate in the competition than in conventional OPD tournaments, since normally only 12 individual speakers in addition to the 24 team speakers (eight teams of three speakers) at the end of the preliminary rounds and the start of the quarter-finals are active as free speakers (four rooms with three free speakers each). Due to the reduction in the field of participants, the jurors usually only need a fraction after the preliminary rounds. In the new tournament mode, however, all speakers and jurors had a longer opportunity to actively participate in the competition. Inexperienced speakers also benefit from the higher number of preliminary rounds, in which the jurors not only award points, but also give the speakers verbal feedback on their performance. The system with five preliminary rounds has since been referred to in the debating scene as the “Mainz Model”. The organizers of the 2011/12 season, who are organizing an OPD-ZEIT debate, have announced that they also want to use the “Mainz model”.

Tournament participation

In June 2003 Hanna Kaspar, Simon Herrmann and Christian Rauda won the German Debate Championship in Tübingen. In June 2007 Marietta Gädeke, Gudrun Lux and Marcel Giersdorf became German Debating Masters in Bayreuth.

In 2006 Patrick Proner and Simon Herrmann won the West German Debate Championship in Marburg. In 2009 Konrad Grießinger, Robert Lehmann and Nicolas Eberle prevailed against 17 other teams at the regional championship in Bonn and won the title of West German Champion for the second time for the DCJG. In 2007, 2008, 2010 and 2011 the DCJG was West German runner-up.

In the 2008/2009 season, its second most successful season since it was founded, the club won the Tübingen ZEIT debate. In the 2009/2010 season, one team each from the DCJG reached the finals of the West German Championship and again the Tübingen ZEIT debate. In the current 2010/11 season a team from Mainz made it to the final of the Greifswalder ZEIT debate, and the DCJG also won the final of the Tübinger Streitkultur-Cup, the largest tournament in German-speaking countries outside of the ZEIT debates.

The club mainly appears at German-language tournaments, but its members have also taken part in several international tournaments, including the European Debate Championships in 2004, 2006, 2010 and 2011, as well as the World Championships in 2010, 2011 and 2012. The Marietta team Gädeke and Marcus Ewald reached the world championship break in the ESL quarter-finals in 2011 and 2012 under the name "Gutenberg A". In 2009 both teams from Mainz reached the semi-finals for non-native speakers at the Oxford IV tournament.

literature

  • Bartsch, Tim-C. / Hoppmann, Michael / Rex, Bernd F .: What is debate? , Göttingen 2005
  • Bartsch, Tim-C. / Hoppmann, Michael / Rex, Bernd F .: Handbook of the Open Parliamentary Debate . Göttingen 2006.
  • Rauda, ​​Christian / Kaspar, Hanna / Proner, Patrick: Pro Contra - the manual of debating . Heidenau 2007.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kolja Reichert: Rhetoric - Final of the speakers in the Red City Hall. In: tagesspiegel.de. June 16, 2008, accessed August 9, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Welt Online: And again and again the raised index finger like with Guido Westerwelle
  3. ↑ Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz Online: Debating Championship: Speaker victory for Magdeburg ( Memento from June 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Association of Debating Clubs at Universities eV: [1] , in: Echte Minute, as of June 2011.
  5. ↑ Free Debating League: [2]
  6. ^ Association of Debating Clubs at Universities eV: History of the VDCH
  7. ↑ Stefan Säemann: Students choose the best German speaker in Mainz - German Debate Championship 2009 with 200 participants. In: ad-hoc-news.de. June 18, 2009, archived from the original on June 18, 2009 ; accessed on October 6, 2019 .
  8. ↑ SPIEGEL Online: The nice argument
  9. ^ Zeit Online: Magdeburg citizens are the best to discuss
  10. ↑ Eighth minute : ZEIT DEBATE Mainz: Leipzig wins the final
  11. ^ Eighth minute : Founding of the Free Debating League
  12. ^ German University Debate Championship 2003 in Tübingen. In: streitkultur.net. June 30, 2003, accessed June 4, 2019 .
  13. ^ Association of Debating Clubs at Universities eV: Hall of Fame of the German Debating Masters, in: Eight minute
  14. ↑ General-Anzeiger Bonn: Discussion about women's quota ( Memento of October 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  15. ^ Association of Debating Clubs at Universities eV: ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: DCJG Mainz is West German Champion 2009 ) @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.vdch.de
  16. ↑ Mainz wins in Tübingen. In: vdch.de. Association of Debating Clubs at Universities, January 6, 2009, accessed October 26, 2018 .
  17. ↑ Eighth minute : Berlin wins Tübingen ZEIT DEBATTE
  18. ↑ Eighth minute : ZEIT DEBATTE Greifswald 2010: The final break
  19. ↑ Eighth minute : Mainz wins the Controversial Culture Cup 2010
  20. ↑ taz.de: Against your own conviction
  21. ↑ Eighth minute : EUDC in conversation
  22. ↑ WUDC 2011: Full tab online now! In: eighth minute . January 5, 2011 ( Achteminute.de [accessed October 25, 2018]).
  23. ^ WUDC 2011: Unofficial ESL and EFL tabs . In: eighth minute . January 12, 2011 ( Achteminute.de [accessed October 25, 2018]).
  24. ↑ WUDC 2011: Good night, Gaborone! In: eighth minute . December 30, 2010 ( Achteminute.de [accessed October 25, 2018]).
  25. ↑ WUDC 2012: The Break . In: eighth minute . December 31, 2011 ( Achteminute.de [accessed October 25, 2018]).
  26. ↑ Eighth Minute : Oxford IV 2009