Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM
Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM
Blick über den Tellerrand Dezember 2025
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Blick über den Tellerrand Dezember 2025

Blick über den Tellerrand (Thinking Outside the Box) December 2025

Our Blick über den Tellerrand on December 9, 2025 is under the heading »From Halle an Der Saale to London: Handel’s »Messiah« and the Blueprint for a Global Musical Success.«. The speaker is Maximilian Rajczyk. He is director of the choir school at the Peter Cornelius Conservatory in Mainz and of the RPTU Classical Choir.

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Series of Talks »Blick über den Tellerrand«

Our series of lectures is held in German.

Once every month, the Fraunhofer ITWM opens its doors and invites everyone who is interested to broaden their horizon. The interdisciplinary lecture series »Blick über den Tellerrand« of the Felix Klein Center for Mathematics presents different perspectives on a wide spectrum of topics in the area of science and technology.

Exciting experts from a wide range of fields will speak and discuss with the guests. Everyone is cordially invited and admission is free. The event will take place on site at the Fraunhofer Center and will also be broadcast virtually.

»Blick über den Tellerrand« (Thinking Outside the Box) in December 2025 »From Halle an Der Saale to London: Handel’s »Messiah« and the Blueprint for a Global Musical Success.«

 

Tuesday, December 9, 2025
6pm – 7:30pm

The lecture will be held in German.

Georg Friedrich Handel (1685–1759) was born in Halle an der Saale and moved via Hamburg to London, where he made history as a composer and opera impresario. With live musical contributions from an ensemble of the RPTU classical choir, we decipher the musical blueprints and rhetorical subtleties of his »Messiah.« We ask why this work has been so famous and beloved from its premiere to the present day, and why everyone in British concert halls stands up when the famous »Hallelujah« is played.

About the Speaker

Maximilian Rajczyk is head of the choir school at the Peter Cornelius Conservatory in Mainz and also conducts the classical choir of the RPTU. He studied church music and conducting at the Saar College of Music and combines historical performance practice with modern music education. At the end of the 2025/26 winter semester, he will perform Handel's »Messiah« with the classical choir of the RPTU in Kaiserslautern and Landau. 

The event will be moderated by Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Küfer. He is the speaker for the Felix Klein Center for Mathematics and head of the »Optimization« division and »Optimization in the Life Sciences« department at the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM.

Participation Options:       

  1. On site in the lecture hall of the Fraunhofer ITWM,
    Fraunhofer-Platz 1, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany  
  2. By video conference via Microsoft Teams: https://s.fhg.de/tellerrand-2025-12


Technical Hints

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»Blick über den Tellerrand« (Thinking Outside the Box) is an interdisciplinary lecture series of the Felix Klein Center for Mathematics with changing topics.

If you have any questions, please contact Sylvia Gerwalin, e-mail: sylvia.gerwalin[at]itwm.fraunhofer.de, telephone: 0631-31600-4424.