Christmas Lecture 2025

"The Christmas Catalyst - When Chemistry Accelerates the Festivities": Under this title, the Chemistry Didactics and Science Communication working group under the direction of Prof. Dr. Marco Beeken invites you to the traditional Christmas lecture!

A catalyst lowers the activation energy, accelerates reactions and remains unchanged - a fascinating concept that Prof. Beeken and his team transfer to the Christmas season with a wink, because hand on heart: a catalyst can sometimes do no harm even during the festive season - whether it's helping to make the Christmas menu a success, decorating the tree or bringing peace to the family after the third plate of cookies. With experiments, humor and a dash of self-irony, the team shows how chemical principles can have a humorous effect on everyday life.

The working group supposedly has a special mission - purely satirical, of course - to develop very individual Christmas presents for well-known politicians on behalf of an anonymous client. What might be under the Christmas tree of a passionate sausage lover, a strategic financial expert, a communicative mediator or an energy policy pioneer is revealed with subtle irony and lots of chemistry.

When science, society and satire react with each other, the result is a mixture that is entirely in the style of the Osnabrück Christmas Lectures: entertaining, surprising and reactive!

Tip for families: Santa Claus even comes to visit our youngest guests!
 

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Admission is free, but participation is only possible with advance registration. Seats will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. You can reserve up to four seats per order.

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