Debating Club Vienna
| Debating Club Vienna (DKW) |
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| Logo of the Debating Club Vienna | |
| purpose | Debate Club |
| Chair: | Melanie Sindelar, Joy Edobor, Marvin Grünthal, Roman Korecky |
| Establishment date: | 2004, as an association in 2006 |
| Seat : | Vienna |
| Website: | debattierklubwien.at |
The Debattierklub Wien ( DKW for short ) is a German and English-speaking debating club in Vienna . The Debattierklub Wien has held regular debates since it was founded. In addition, the club often takes part in debating tournaments, seminars and similar events around the world and organizes them itself. With the European Championship 2015, the Zeit Debatte Wien 2010 and the annual Vienna Intervarsity tournaments, the club has organized the largest debating tournaments in Austria. It is currently (as of September 2018) the only debating club from Austria that regularly takes part in debating tournaments.
Since October 2009 the club has held two debates a week, one in British Parliamentary Style and one in English; the other is held in German in the format of the Open Parliamentary Debate . Like most debating clubs, the Vienna Debating Club is geared towards students, who make up the majority of its members. The DKW is not tied to a specific university, as is usually the case with debating clubs in English-speaking countries. Instead, the club covers all universities in Vienna. It thus fulfills a similar function in Vienna as the Berlin Debating Union in Berlin.
history
In October 2004 students at the Vienna University of Economics and Business founded the club under the name “Debattier-kG” (“kG” stood for “controversial discussions”). At the end of 2005, the club took part in its first tournament, a friendship tournament of the Munich Debating Club . In May 2006 the club was founded as an association called "Debating Club Vienna", followed in February 2009 by joining the Association of Debating Clubs at Universities . Shortly afterwards, the Vienna Debating Club held its first tournament, the 1st Vienna Debate Derby. The derby was a friendly debating evening with the Viennese debating clubs Debattierclub AFA and mind club. The Debattierklub Wien took part in a tournament of the Zeit Debatten series for the first time at the 2009 South German Championship. The club played its first English-language tournament in November 2009 at the International Debate Academy Slovenia . Since then, the club has regularly participated in German and English-language tournaments, including the German-language debating championships since 2009, the world championships and European championships since 2010.
Events
The first major tournament organized by the Vienna Debating Club was Zeit Debatte Wien in March 2010. With almost 120 participants, it was the largest debating tournament in Austria to date. The Vienna Debating Club also provided one of the three chief jurors. A team from the debate club Streitkultur from Tübingen emerged as the winner of the tournament, the final of which took place in the festival hall of the University of Vienna .
In March 2011, the Vienna Debating Club hosted Austria's first English-language tournament, Vienna IV ( Intervarsity , term for inter-university debating tournaments). With 44 participating teams from many nations, this tournament was as big as the Zeit Debatte Vienna 2010. The winner of the tournament was a team from Colgate University from the USA. Since then, the Vienna Debating Club has been holding regular Vienna IV tournaments.
In 2015, the Vienna Debating Club hosted the European Championships.
The club regularly holds seminars for beginners and advanced debaters. Especially for students has been around since March 2011, the series of events mixed up one . During these debate evenings, the participants first hear expert presentations on a specific general topic. This general topic forms the basis for the subsequent debates, in which the participants can apply the knowledge imparted straight away. The aim of the series is to involve young people more closely in social debates and processes and to equip them with the necessary knowledge and argumentative skills.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Website of the Zeit Debatte Wien 2010 . Retrieved January 24, 2011.
- ↑ Ferdinand Waldstein: Anyone can talk, also debate? In: GEWINN 2/2010, pp. 78-80.
- ^ History of the club on the DKW website. Retrieved March 27, 2011
- ↑ VDCH clubs on site. Accessed on September 13, 2018.
- ↑ The debating club mind club no longer exists, the website ( memento of October 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) is also no longer active.
- ↑ Premiere: Vienna debates! Eighth minute. Retrieved January 24, 2011.
- ↑ Colgate wins Vienna IV 2011 eighth minute . Retrieved March 23, 2011.
- ^ Vienna EUDC . Retrieved September 13, 2018.
- ↑ “Mix in!”: The new themed evenings of the Debattierklub Wien . Eighth minute . Retrieved March 27, 2011
- ↑ Johannes Lindner: Get involved! In: Arbeit & Wirtschaft 02/2011 , February 15, 2011. Accessed March 27, 2011.