Divine Experiences and Godless Euros

From 7 – 13  August 180 teams competed at Europe’s most important debate tournament in Galway, Ireland. DKW sent Karoline Lutz and Regina Puthenpurayil as Vienna B, Leonhard Weese and Christoph Jäger as Vienna A  along with Rosie Halmi as adjudicator. The buzz around the ESL final motion “THBT God Exists” has eclipsed most other […]

Ein neuer Vorstand ist gewählt, der alte breitet seine Flügel aus

Der neue Vorstand wurde gestern am 2. November in der jährlichen Vollversammlung des Debattierklub Wiens gewählt. Jakob Reiter wurde als Obmann ernannt, er war seit Herbst 2010 Schriftführer des Vereins und bereits in seiner Position als stellvertretender Obmann tätig. In der Funktion des Schriftführers wird von nun an Karoline Lutz agieren. Regina Puthenpurayil übernimmt den Posten des Kassiers  […]

Berlin IV 2011

The Berlin IV took place from 8th to 10th July 2011 and Debattierklub Wien sent four teams and three adjudicators to, what some people consider as the big brother of Austria, Germany. The tournament, with participants coming from nearly 14 countries, was quite international. For some reason there were quite many Scandinavian teams – maybe […]

Debating Just A Few Meters Down The Danube – A Friendly Tournament in Budapest

Possibly this article will alter history a little bit (sorry, that’s an Austrian habit). The first reason therefor is that due to writing this article several days after the tournament, the author’s memories are not so detailed anymore. Two things are totally clear, however: Budapest was loads of fun and it had something to do […]