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| NEW DSG Webpage installed Find us at our new location as of 1 SEP 2011: www.schoolsdebate.org This page will now longer be updated. Best regards, Debating Society Germany e.V. | |||||||||||||||||
| Germany brought home three wins from WSDC 2011 Germany lost both debates in split decisions today (2:1 v Hong Kong and 2:1 to Czech Republic), which leaves us with three wins, five losses, three of them split - that's ten ballots. Sadly, the tournament is over for us, but it's been great having Dilek, Viola, Karoline, Felix, Kai and coach Jana on the delegation in Dundee who have left a great impression on everyone nonetheless, and have been great assets to representing Germany at WSDC. Thank you very much and see you again in Capetown 2012! 22 AUG 2010 | |||||||||||||||||
| WSDC Dundee 2011 blog now online The World Schools Debating Championship 2011 in Dundee, Scotland are taking place from 16-26 AUG and there is a blog online which will keep you as up-to-date as possible. See it here:  WSDC blogGOOD LUCK, TEAM GERMANY!! | |||||||||||||||||
| EurOpen 2011 Team list now online 40 teams and a handful more on the wait list have forced us with heavy heart to close registration prematurely before 4 SEP 2011 to all other teams outside the current list of teams who were fast enough to catch a slot in time. We deeply regret that we can't accept any other teams at this time, apart from putting them on the wait list, since we have never dreamt it possible to have such an overwhelming feedback. EurOpen 2011 Draft scheduleTeams registered so far are (changes may and will occur): Alberta Wait list: | |||||||||||||||||
| WSDC Dundee 2011 countdown The World Schools Debating Championship 2011 will take place in Dundee, Scotland from 16-26 August and Team Germany's preparation is in full swing. See latest updates and infos about the team and tournament. WSDC 2011 | |||||||||||||||||
| Max-Born-Gymnasium, Backnang defeats Burghardt-Gymnasium, Buchen in Senior League Final 2011 It is the second major title after winning GSDC 2011 for the debaters of Backnang's Max-Born-Gymnasium which has been awarded to them after defeating runners-up team Burghardt-Gymnasium from Buchen unanimously in this year's Senior League Final, which has been held on the stage of Max-Born's own assembly hall on July 23rd. Congratulations to speakers Karoline Schlotthauer, Dilek Sevinc and Julian Gilke.  From left to right: Christopher Sanchez (DSG Senior League), Julian Gilke, Karoline Schlotthauer, Dilek Sevinc, Marie-Therese Fleischmann, Daniela Wieland | |||||||||||||||||
| WSDC Team Germany reaches final at WSDA Slovenia, close defeat by Qatar Team Germany attended the World Schools Debate Academy in Kranjska Gora during the first week of July and successfully debated its way through to the tournament final, where it has been defeated by the closest decision possible, a 4-3 by proposing team Qatar. Congratulations tournament winners and much praise for our speakers Dilek Sevinc, Karoline Schlotthauer, Viola Schramm, Kai Ohmstedt and Felix Jiang, the latter two also winning positions three and four on the best speakers list! Dilek Sevinc ranks eighth! Well done! Global Debate Blog (includes full tab) | |||||||||||||||||
| Junior League trophy 2011 goes to Schubart-Gymnasium, Ulm In a very close final at Karlsgymnasium, Stuttgart, Schubart- Gymnasium, Ulm defeated the home team by 3:2 judges votes on the motion "This house believes that print is a dying medium" on Saturday, 2nd of July. Congratulations tournament winners!!  More details soon | |||||||||||||||||
| Max-Born-Gymnasium wins GSDC... again! This year's all-Backnang final at Patch High School in Stuttgart-Vaihingen ended with a clear win for the Max-Born-Gymnasium over Taus-Gymnasium on the motion "This House Believes that the International Criminal Court should have the power to prosecute ’crimes against the earth". Congratulations to the final speakers Karoline Schlotthauer, Dilek Sevinc and Dominic Weller for successfully defending last year's title! Newpaper article in "BKZ" 6 JUNE 2011 (in German) GSDC | |||||||||||||||||
| Team Germany for Capetown 2012 selected Following the GSDC final at Patch High School, ten applicants for the World Schools Debating Championship 2012 in Capetown, South Africa have been selected and interviewed. The delegation consists of the following debaters: Kai Ohmstedt - Taus-GYM, Backnang Felix Jiang - Landesgymn. f. Hochbegabte, Schwäbisch Gmünd Lea Benk - Parler-GYM Schwäbisch Gmünd Antonia Schmidt - St. Benno-GYM, Dresden Sophia Jaimes-Ramos, Max-Born-GYM Backnang Backup speakers are: Louisa Benk - Parler-GYM, Schwäbisch Gmünd Bhavesh Argaval - Heinrich-v-Gagern-GYM, Frankfurt am Main Congratulations delegation members and enjoy the preparations! | |||||||||||||||||
| Burghardt-GYM, Buchen and Max-Born-GYM, Backang will meet in SL final Senior League teams have met on 7th MAY at Johannes-Kepler-Gymnasium, Leonberg to debate the quarter- and semifinals. There were many superb debates with very close calls. Thank You to all speakers and judges! Follow the link for results. Senior League | |||||||||||||||||
| EurOpen 2011 Planning has started We cordially invite domestic debating teams, international school teams and national delegations to participate in the 15th edition of the EurOpen Schools Debating Championship, which is to be held in Stuttgart, Germany from 5-12 NOV 2011. Registration begins on 1 JUNE. EurOpen 2011  | |||||||||||||||||
| Teams return from Komarovo 2011 A delegation of speakers and judges from Baden-Württemberg, Berlin and Saxony have returned from the Komarovo 2011 Debate tournament in St. Petersburg, Russia. One German team made the runners-up position, two others came in third and fourth. Tournaments | |||||||||||||||||
| Team Germany C wins Middle School Tournament in Slovenia Team Germany C, comprising of Sophia Jaimes-Ramos, Jana Schöne and Tanja Steck (all Max-Born-GYM, Backnang) have won the Middle School Tournament in Sredisce ob Dravi, Slovenia 2011, a tournament for speakers classes 7-9. Many congratulations!! Well done! Newspaper article in BKZ (31 MAR 2011) |
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| New cooperation with university debating takes school debating one step further A milestone cooperation has been agreed upon at the Würzburg Weekend in FEB 2011 to facilitate the transition from school to universitiy debating in both German and English languages on the one hand, but will also mean university support of many school debating events on the other. DSG e.V. and VDCH e.V. (Verband der Debattierclubs an Hochschulen) will permanently swap information and broadcast them on VDCH's main online blog "Achte Minute", where this article tells you more about the new liaison: article (in German) | |||||||||||||||||
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British Embassy Berlin The German National Team, as well as St. Benno-Gymnasium, Dresden, and the representatives of Berlin were all present at the British Embassy Berlin on 18th December for a reception. The subject of the reception was the Olympic Games in London in 2012. They had recently held a show debate and debating workshop there and this was a follow-up (and kind of a thank you). And what a follow-up it turned out to be! There was a panel discussion with the Olympic athletes Britta Steffen, Christian Schenk and Georgina Harland, which was extremely inspiring to all present, and applied as much to the world of debating as it did to the Olympics. Then came the highlight: the attendance of HRH Prince Harry! He was attending "Ein Herz für Kinder" in Berlin that evening and had come to the Embassy in advance. It was a really exciting and inspiring experience to meet royalty, even for a brief couple of minutes. Our thanks go out to the British Embassy in Berlin and in particular to Astrid Ladd for her coordination of and invitation to this event. |
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EurOpen 2010 Finals: Congratulations to both teams on a superb final and to Canada East for winning the tournament. The organisers would like to thank everyone who came to the tournament (the biggest of its kind ever in Germany) and also to those who helped make EurOpen 2010 a wonderful week! |
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