Facts:

• November 25 to 27, 2011
• Karlsruhe
• OPD (Offene Parlamentarische Debatte, or Open Parliamentary Debate)
• Five prelims (“Mainzer Modell”)
• Chief adjudicators: Yin Cai, Christoph Krakowiak, Mario Dießner

The ZEIT DEBATTEN series is convened by VDCH in cooperation with the weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT and Deutsche Telekom, supported through VDCH’s media partner ZDF, a German public broadcaster. It has been a decade now since the first ZEIT DEBATTEN series kicked off with at least five annual tournaments, among them the German debating championship. This is now season eleven which comprises four regular tournaments and the German language debating championship. The series is nested under the honorary patronage of the former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt.