Debating Society Jena

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The Debattiergesellschaft Jena eV (abbreviation: DgJ) is the German and English-speaking debating club of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena . The association, founded in 2001, belongs to the Berlin Debating Union , the Debattierclub Münster , the Debattierclub Mainz and the Tübingen culture of dispute among the most active and sportingly successful clubs in German university debates .

Logo of the association

The Union

After debates had been taking place in an informal setting at the University of Jena since the late 1990s, the Jena Debating Society was founded in 2001 as a student university group in the form of a non-profit association. Its statutory purposes are the promotion of rhetorical skills, political education and the cultivation of a democratic spirit as well as the exchange between students of different subjects, worldviews and cultures. In order to realize these association purposes, the Debattiergesellschaft - apart from the weekly association debates - regularly organizes debating tournaments, public debates, panel discussions and rhetoric training.

With the Wartburg format , the DgJ 2000 developed its own debate format , which, alongside the Open Parliamentary Debate and the British Parliamentary Style, is one of the three most widespread debate formats in German-speaking countries.

The number of members of the association increased from around 20 in 2004 to 54 in 2008. Currently (2019) around 60 students and alumni of the University of Jena were members of the DgJ. The DgJ has been a member of the Association of Debating Clubs at Universities since it was founded in 2001 and is therefore one of the older debating clubs in German-speaking countries. The association's patron is the President of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena Walter Rosenthal .

The DGJ as tournament organizer

Since it was founded, the DgJ has been one of the most active tournament organizers in German-speaking countries. In addition to numerous smaller debating tournaments, the association and the Wortfechtern Erfurt organized one of the first major tournaments in Central Germany in 2004 ("The Little Cicero"), the final of which took place at the Wartburg in Eisenach. In May 2006 the club hosted a major tournament in the ZEIT debate series . In 2008, the North German regional championships in university debates followed, followed by another major ZEIT debate in 2009 and 2011.

Since 2013, the Jena Advent debates have been held annually, in which debating clubs from Germany, Austria and Switzerland take part.

The DGJ as a tournament participant

The Debattiergesellschaft Jena is one of the most successful tournament participants in the German university debates in the ZEIT Debate Series . She is two-time German champion in university debating and three-time German runner-up.

Successes at German championships in university debating

  • In 2006, Maika Spilke and Mark Hauptmann were able to bring the German championship title to the city ​​of the Saale for the first time
  • In 2007, Mark Hauptmann, Moritz Niehaus and Clemens Lechner became German runners-up in Bayreuth
  • In 2009 Moritz Niehaus, Clemens Lechner and Severin Weingarten made it to the final again in Mainz and were narrowly defeated by the team from Magdeburg
  • In 2010 Moritz Niehaus and Clemens Lechner reached the final in Münster
  • In 2011 Clemens Lechner, Moritz Niehaus and Severin Weingarten won the title of German Master for Jena for the second time in Heidelberg
  • In 2017 Olya Demchuk, Francesco Cavassa and Schehsad Shaikh won the title of German Master in the category German as a Foreign Language in Dresden
  • In 2018, Cui Wang and Ilze Zilmane (Berlin) won the title of German Master in the category German as a Foreign Language in Jena

Other successes

  • 2010 Clemens Lechner won the title of best individual speaker at the ZEIT debate in Stuttgart
  • 2011 entry into the final of the ZEIT debate in Mainz (Moritz Niehaus, Clemens Lechner and Jonathan Scholbach)
  • 2011 entry into the final and best team on points at the East German Championships in Halle
  • 2011 Clemens Lechner and Moritz Niehaus won the Berlin Debating Union invitation tournament
  • In 2013, Jonathan Scholbach, Friederike Meyer zu Wendischhoff and Severin Weingarten made it into the semifinals of the German Debating Championship in Munich
  • In 2016 Patrizia Hertlein and Tina Rudolph made it into the final of the World Championships in Thessaloniki in the "English as a Foreign Language" category
  • 2018 Winning the ZEIT DEBATTE Vienna through Abdulaziz Mubarak and Maksim Zubok (Munich)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eternal best list on the debating magazine Echte Minute
  2. ↑ "Jena Master of Debate" on Jena Compact
  3. ^ Message on the website of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena
  4. ↑ "Jena students are university debaters" ( Memento of the original from January 18, 2017 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 / www.tlz.de
  5. ^ "Jena is the German master in university debating" in Bild Stuttgart
  6. ^ Message on the website of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena
  7. ↑ Eight minute »Tournaments TIME DEBATE» DDM Dresden 2017: dates and results. Accessed March 31, 2019 (German).
  8. ↑ Eight minute »Tournaments TIME DEBATE» The DDM 2018: dates and results. Accessed March 31, 2019 (German).
  9. ↑ Report on the website of the Debattierclub Frankfurt
  10. ↑ Eight minute »Topics tournaments» Mainz as a milestone in OPD history - review of ZEIT DEBATTE Mainz 2011. Accessed on March 31, 2019 (German).
  11. ↑ Echte Minute »Topics tournaments» Heidelberg is West German Champion 2011 / Potsdam is East German Champion 2011 / Kiel is North German Champion 2011. Accessed on March 31, 2019 (German).
  12. ↑ Report on the debating magazine Echte Minute
  13. ↑ Eight minute »ZEIT DEBATTE» DDM 2013: The semi-finals. Accessed March 31, 2019 (German).
  14. ↑ Talking almost like world champions: students from Jena are vice world champions in debating. Accessed March 31, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Eight minute »News from the clubs tournaments ZEIT DEBATTE» Berlin wins ZEIT DEBATTE Vienna 2017. Accessed on March 31, 2019 (German).