Association of Debating Clubs at Universities
| Association of Debating Clubs at Universities Me.V. (VDCH) |
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| purpose | Promotion of culture, international attitudes and the idea of international understanding |
| Chair: | Lennart Lokstein (President), Anton Leicht, Maya Heckendorf, Tove Marla Hortmann |
| Establishment date: | 2001 |
| Number of members: | 73 institutions around 4,000 individual members as of February 2015 |
| Seat : | Berlin-Charlottenburg |
| Website: | www.vdch.de |
The Association of Debating Clubs at Universities e. V. (VDCH) is the umbrella organization founded in 2001 for university debating clubs in countries and regions in Europe where German is spoken. The VDCH has over 70 associations and around 4,000 members from Germany , Austria , Switzerland , Italy , Sweden , England , France and the Netherlands . The association is based in Berlin-Charlottenburg .
activities
The VDCH supports its member associations and new initiatives to found debating clubs and is committed to the recognition of debating in general. He is the organizer of a series of debating tournaments, the Campus Debates (until 2018: Zeit Debatten). The association is the mediator between the debating clubs, the public, sponsors and supporters.
The president of the association represents them at the European European Universities Debating Championship and the international World Universities Debating Championship .
Together with the German Debating Society , the VDCH is the publisher of eighth minute , a multilingual magazine for the European debating scene.
Tournaments
In cooperation with various partners, the association organizes each year nationwide tournaments in debating , one of which as a highlight of the season, the German-language Debating is (DDM). As part of the campus debates , the VDCH also awards the regional debating championships.
The VDCH tournaments are almost exclusively organized in the formats Open Parliamentary Debate and British Parliamentary Style . The format of the DDM alternates between the two every year. The regional championships are based on this rhythm.
List of the winners of the German-speaking debating championships
- 2001: Münster (Trinh Le and Kira Heyden)
- 2002: Berlin (Christian Blum and Frederik von Rumohr)
- 2003: Mainz (Simon Herrmann, Christian Rauda and Hanna Kaspar)
- 2004: Heidelberg Debating (Christian Gollner and Jan Lemnitzer)
- 2005: Freiburg (Eike Hosemann, Marco Ragni and Manfred Kröber)
- 2006: Jena ( Mark Hauptmann and Maika Spilke)
- 2007: Mainz (Marcel Giersdorf, Marietta Gädeke and Gudrun Lux)
- 2008: Halle (Marcus Ewald and Torsten Rössing)
- 2009: Magdeburg (Miriam Hauft, Jonas Werner and Hauke Blume)
- 2010: Tübingen (Peter Croonenbroeck, Philipp Stiel)
- 2011: Jena (Clemens Lechner, Moritz Niehaus, Severin Weingarten)
- 2012: Munich (Marco Witzmann, Valerio Morelli)
- 2013: Heidelberg (Wiebke Nadler, Tom-Michael Hesse, Sven Hirschfeld)
- 2014: Berlin (Christina Dexel, Philip Schröder)
- 2015: Mainz (Nicolas Eberle, Christian Strunck and Sina Strupp)
- 2016: Tübingen (Lennart Lokstein, Konrad Gütschow)
- 2017: Heidelberg (Julius Steen, Peter Giertzuch, Sabrina Effenberger)
- 2018: Berlin (Julian Stastny, Stefan Torges)
- 2019: Tübingen (Dominik Hermle, Joschka Braun, Chiara Throner)
President
The president is assisted by three deputies who together form the voluntary executive committee.
The previous presidents were:
- 2001–2003: Christian Blum, Berlin
- 2003–2004: Melanie Amann, Berlin / Munich
- 2004–2005: Florian Wichelmann, Berlin
- 2005–2006: Isabelle Loewe, Bonn
- 2006–2007: Simon Hermann, Mainz
- 2007–2008: Daniel Grotzky, Munich
- 2008–2010: Tim Richter, Bonn / Cologne
- 2010–2011: Jan Lüken, Heidelberg / Ingolstadt
- 2011–2012: Benedikt Nufer, Hamburg
- 2012–2013: Philipp Stiel, Tübingen / Berlin
- 2013–2014: Florian Umscheid, Bamberg / Berlin
- 2014–2015: Tobias Kube, Marburg
- 2015–2016: Jan Ehlert, Tübingen
- 2016–2017: Julian Staudt, Hamburg
- 2017–2018: Benedikt Rennekamp, Heidelberg
- Since 2018: Lennart Lokstein, Tübingen
Web links
- Website of the Association of University Debating Clubs
- Eighth Minute Website
- Campus Debate website
- "Academic Debating Club" map of Germany from ZEITmagazin, January 26, 2017
literature
- Tim-C. Bartsch, Michael Hoppmann, Bernd Rex (eds.): Handbook of the Open Parliamentary Debate - Streitkultur e. V. , 4th edition, Cuvillier Verlag, Göttingen 2006.
- Tim-C. Bartsch, Michael Hoppmann, Bernd Rex: What is debate? , 1st edition, Cuvillier Verlag, Göttingen 2005.
- Tim-C. Bartsch, Michael Hoppmann, Bernd Rex, Markus Vergeest: Training book Rhetorik , 1st edition, UTB-Verlag, October 2005.
- Christian Blum: Debating - learning the royal form of rhetoric. Munich 2007.
- Christian Rauda , Hanna Kaspar, Patrick Proner: Pros and Cons. The manual of debating. 2007.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Charlottenburg, registration number 21674 Nz
- ^ Members of the VDCH - Debating on site. VDCH, archived from the original on March 6, 2012 ; Retrieved July 30, 2013 .
- ↑ The Association. VDCH, archived from the original on September 6, 2008 ; Retrieved July 30, 2013 .
- ↑ On our own behalf: Die Achte Minute has a new logo and a new co-publisher. In: VDCH.de. July 6, 2010, accessed July 7, 2014 .
- ↑ The Rules of a Debate. VDCH, accessed on July 30, 2013 .
- ^ Debating Club Heidelberg: Review of the DDM 2011
- ↑ Eighth minute: Marco Witzmann and Valerio Morelli are masters in German-speaking debating
- ^ Association of Debating Clubs at Universities: Wiebke Nadler, Tom-Michael Hesse and Sven Hirschfeld are masters in German-speaking debating
- ↑ Berliner are German-speaking debater masters 2014 , eighth minute from June 9, 2014, accessed June 16, 2014
- ↑ Mainz is the new master in German-language debating , Eighth Minute from June 7, 2015, accessed September 17, 2015
- ^ Association of Debating Clubs at Universities (VDCH). Retrieved February 14, 2017 .
- ↑ Eight minute »Tournaments TIME DEBATE» DDM Dresden 2017: dates and results. Retrieved March 30, 2019 .
- ↑ Eight minute »Tournaments TIME DEBATE» The DDM 2018: dates and results. Retrieved March 30, 2019 .
- ↑ Eight minute »Campus debates tournaments» Culture of dispute Tübingen wins the DDM 2019. Accessed on July 19, 2019 .
- ^ History of the VDCH . VDCH e. V.