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the future of music
Popakademie Baden-Württemberg - University for Music Business, Creative Industries and Popular Music
We arepeople who design
the future of music
Popakademie Baden-Württemberg - University for Music Business, Creative Industries and Popular Music

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The Popakademie Baden-Württemberg is an higher education institution and competence centre for the music and creative industries and their pop cultural scenes. By focusing its study programmes on popular music - in economic as well as artistic terms - it offers an academic education that is unique in Germany's public university landscape. Numerous successful careers of musicians and creatives have been founded here.

Parallel to its function as a teaching institution, the Popakademie Baden-Württemberg, as a competence centre, realises numerous projects in a regional, national and international context.


© Sebastian Weindel
20. November 2025

Successful Study Information Day 2025

On November 19, 2025, the Popakademie Baden-Württemberg opened its doors to music-loving students and prospective students as part of the state-wide study information day. The event was fully _ _ _
28. November 2025

Popländ Award: Students present concept at the ministry

Students Tim Fischböck, Simon Kidane, and Johann Fürstenberg presented their concept for the further development of the Popländ Award at the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science, Research _ _ _
12. November 2025

Popakademie renames major field of study

The Popakademie Baden-Württemberg is renaming the Mediterranean/Middle Eastern Percussion specialization in its Bachelor's degree program in Global Music in Percussion with immediate effect _ _ _


28. November 2025

Popländ Award: Students present concept at the ministry

Students Tim Fischböck, Simon Kidane, and Johann Fürstenberg presented their concept for the further development of the Popländ Award at the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science, Research _ _ _
20. November 2025

Successful Study Information Day 2025

On November 19, 2025, the Popakademie Baden-Württemberg opened its doors to music-loving students and prospective students as part of the state-wide study information day. The event was fully _ _ _
12. November 2025

Popakademie renames major field of study

The Popakademie Baden-Württemberg is renaming the Mediterranean/Middle Eastern Percussion specialization in its Bachelor's degree program in Global Music in Percussion with immediate effect _ _ _
16
Dec
Popakademie Talks with Anna Schwenk
In the “Popakademie Talks” series, guests from the music and culture sector discuss various current topics. In the 2025/26 winter semester, three talks will be held on the topic of “Populism and Extremism.”

On Tuesday, December 16, cultural sociologist Dr. Anna Schwenck will speak on populism and music. Her research focuses on popular music and food as material for populist and national performances, and her new research project examines the extent to which moral capital is becoming more important for social advancement, self-optimization, and the search for meaning—under the conditions of a globally strengthening flexible capitalism. In the winter semester 2025/2026, she will be a postdoctoral fellow in the Sociology Department of the Institute for Eastern European Studies at Freie Universität Berlin.

Participation in the talk is free of charge.
Start
19:00
Popakademie, Hafenstr. 33
17
Dec
Work in Progress Club
Popakademie bands live on stage!

At the "Work in Progress Club" the students of the Department of Popular Music present their current projects. The Popakademie choir will also be on stage on December 17.

Admission is free.
Start
20:00
Popakademie, Hafenstr. 33, Raum 001
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