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Meet our delegation for Malaysia Worlds!

Curious which of our DK members are going to WUDC Malaysia 2015?
Then read on …

Meet Madlen, Melanie, Regina and Jakob! All of them are well-known faces and have been very active in the international debating circuit for a few years now.

Regina and Jakob will be our judges – so be nice to them! Both of them have quite an extensive judging and debating background, so our hopes for a judge break are high. Our Vienna A team will consist of Madlen and Melanie. You might have seen the two of them in the past few months somewhere in Europe on a tournament. Although quite a new team, they worked well together right from the start. In London, they went straight to the ESL finals of SOAS IV, in Belgrade they broke as the 2^nd best team into the Semis, and coming to Cambridge, they went into the ESL final of the Cambridge IV, having defeated an excellent team from Malaysia (IIUM) and the well known Belgrade A team in the Semis. But that’s not all. They also competed in the Cambridge Women’s Open, of which they became the ESL Champions. After these events, they retracted to Vienna to gather strength and to re-emerge in Kuala Lumpur full of energy and ambition. We at DKWien are incredibly proud of our first ever all-female team to compete at the World Championships.

But enough talk. Here are the hard facts about our competitive delegation for Malaysia Worlds 2015.

Jakob Reiter
Österreichischer Meister (Austrian Champion) 2014
Süddeutscher Meister (South German Champion) 2013
Vize-Österreichischer Meister (runner-up Austrian Champion) 2013
3rd best team at the 2nd European Debate Conference 2014

Regina Puthenpurayil
Judging:
Chair World Championships Chennai
Final Vienna Mini 2014
Final Ljubljana IV 2014
Chair European Championships Zagreb 2014
Semi-Finals Belgrade IV 2014

Madlen Stottmeyer
ESL Champion Cambridge Women’s Open 2014, 8^th best speaker
ESL Finalist Cambridge IV 2014
Chief Adjudicator Vienna Fresher’s 2014
17th best team World Championships Chennai
Semi-Finals Belgrade IV 2014
ESL Finals SOAS IV 2014
Semi-Finals Le Havre 2013
Semi-Finals Budapest 2014
Finals Judge Vienna IV 2014
Break to semi-finals at Berlin IV 2014
17th best team European Championships
Manchester

Melanie Sindelar
ESL Champion Cambridge Women’s Open 2014, 5^th best speaker
ESL Finalist Cambrdige IV 2014, 8^th best speaker
ESL Finals SOAS IV 2014
Semi-Finals Belgrade IV 2014, 4th best speaker
Semi-Finals BBU Open 2014
Top Ten Team (9th), Top Ten speaker (8th) Stockholm IV 2013
Top Ten Team (6th), Top Ten Speaker (6th)
Science Po 2012 Semis
ESL Semis, Top Ten Team (5th), Top Ten Speaker
(10th) SOAS IV 2012
2012 Finals, Top Ten Team (5th) Tilbury House IV
Top Ten Speaker ESL (8th), Cambridge IV 2011
Judging: ESL Semis, Main Quarters Manchester
IV 2012
Chief Adjudicator of Vienna Fresher’s in Nov 13
Break to Semis at Ljubljana IV

Eine intensive “Clash”-Woche vor Weihnachten beim DKWien

In der letzten Woche vor den Weihnachtsferien ist der Debattierklub Wien gleich fünf Mal zusammengetroffen, oder für jeden Wochentag einmal. Wie üblich hielten wir eine deutsch- und eine englischsprachige Debatte an der Universität Wien und an der WU Wien ab, dazu kamen noch ein Analyse-Workshop und mehrere Organisationstreffen für unser größtes Projekt, die Europäischen Hochschul-Debattiermeisterschaften (EUDC) im Sommer 2015. Eine genaue Übersicht dieser “Weihnachts-Clash-Woche” im Folgenden:

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We are the ESL champions of Cambridge Women’s Open 2014!

The ESL Champions of Cambridge Women’s Open and ESL Finalists of Cambridge IV 2014, Madlen Stottmeyer and Melanie Sindelar.

We are incredibly proud to announce that Melanie Sindelar and Madlen Stottmeyer are the winners of this years’ Cambridge Women’s Open in the ESL Category. They also did incredibly well on the speaker tab and were declared 5th and 8th best ESL speaker respectively. Vienna A (also their teamname for the upcoming World Championships) also broke into the semi-finals of the Cambridge IV, and, having defeated the current European Champions Belgrade A and an excellent team from Malaysia (IIUM), moved right into the ESL Final. Melanie was also declared 8th best ESL speaker of the Cambridge IV. That was not yet all the good news coming from England last weekend, as our judge Elisabeth Vikydal broke to the ESL semi-final of the IV!
The Cambridge IV and the Cambridge Women’s Open are prestigious tournaments held on an annual basis which attract the best speakers from Europe, North America and Asia and are seen as one of the integral preparation tournaments for the upcoming World Championships in Kuala Lumpur, Malysia. Madlen and Melanie will be representing Austria in Malysia as Vienna A.

Wir sind irrsinnig stolz, verkünden zu dürfen, dass unsere Debattantinnen Melanie Sindelar und Madlen Stottmeyer die diesjährigen Gewinner des Cambridge Women’s Open in der Kategorie Englisch als Fremdsprache (ESL) sind. Auch als Einzelrednerinnen haben sie sich hervorragend geschlagen und wurden zur fünft- beziehungsweise achtbesten Rednerin dieser Kategorie gekürt. Vienna A (diesen Teamnamen werden die beiden auch bei den Weltmeisterschaften tragen) schaffte es auch ins Semifinale des Cambridge IV und kamen nach einem Sieg gegen die derzeitigen Europameister Belgrade A und gegen ein ausgezeichnetes Team aus Malaysien (IIUM) weiter ins ESL-Finale. Melanie wurde hier auch zur achtbesten ESL-Rednerin gekürt. Zu diesen guten Nachrichten kam noch dazu, dass unsere Jurorin Elisabeth Vikydal den Break ins Semifinale des IV schaffte!
Das Cambridge IV und das Cambridge Women’s Open sind prestigeträchtige Turniere, die jährlich ausgetragen werden und die besten Redner aus Europa, Nordamerika und Asien anziehen.

Belgrade Open 2014

DK WIEN AT BELGRADE OPEN 2014

by Ingo Bandhauer

The Vienna delegation in Belgrade

From October 24th to October 26th 2014, Open Communication (or Otvorena komunikacija in Serbian) hosted the Belgrade Open 2014. The DK Wien delegation members (two judges, three teams) arrived separately and in groups, some of us early, others rather late. Essentially, that meant some of us could join the first socials and walk around Belgrade, others could not.

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Die Generalversammlung hat einen neuen Vorstand für die Debattiersaison 2014/2015 gewählt

English version below.

Ein neuer Vorstand für den DKWien

Am 21. Oktober 2014 hat sich der Debattierklub Wien zur Generalversammlung der Debattiersaison 2014/2015 zusammengefunden, zu der am Anfang jedes Studienjahres alle Vereinsmitglieder eingeladen sind. Der Vorstand vom letzten Jahr, das sind Mark Etzel, Regina Puthenpurayil und Elisabeth Vikydal, berichteten von einer sehr erfolgreichen Saison. Sie waren dabei eine wesentliche Stütze – vielen, herzlichen Dank vom Klub!
Regina und Elisabeth werden sich in dieser Saison hauptsächlich der Organisation der Europemeisterschaften “Vienna EUDC 2015” widmen und schieden aus dem Vorstand aus. Zum neuen Vorstand wählte die Generalversammlung Mark Etzel zum Obmann wie bisher, und neu Lisa Duschek zur Kassierin und Damita Pressl zur Schriftführerin. Herzliche Gratulation und viel Erfolg!

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Miri Muntean’s Fresh Impressions of Zagreb EUDC 2014

Between August 18 and 24 2014 Zagreb hosted the European Universities Debating Championship. Debattierklub Wien is the only institution sending teams from Austrian universities to these annual championships. As such, Vienna teams competing for Zagreb EUDC 2014 were: Melanie Sindelar and Stefan Zweiker (Vienna A); Mark Etzel and Madlen Stottmeyer (Vienna B);  Andreas Villarreal and Christoph Jäger (Vienna C). Judges joining them were Elisabeth Vikydal, Regina Puthenpurayil, Andreas Prischl and the author Miri Muntean. Miri joined the society last year and has been one of our most talented freshers. Enjoy her insights!

Miri Muntean’s Impressions

My first EUDC was a week filled by so many things that I wouldn’t know where to start to describe it. Brilliant people, great debates, fancy buildings, entertaining socials and the burning sun are just a few things that come to my mind. I’m sure that having been part of the great (and quite large) DKWien contingent (3 teams, 4 judges, 1 volunteer) contributed a lot to the amazing time I had and everything I’ve learned in the meantime.

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