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Popakademie

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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.


The project group with Marvin Bünning, Florian Federiconi, and David Stammer
09. December 2025

How does Christmas sound to a new generation?

In the current winter semester, music business students Dominik Breitinger, Maya Holberg, Vladislav Kiselev and Sina Mücke are working on the musical development of the Weihnachtsmann & Co. KG _ _ _
16. December 2025

SONGS songwriting competition enters the next round

Until Sunday, March 9th 2026, students aged 11 to 21 can submit their music tracks for the SONGS songwriting competition. Prizes worth a total of up to €10,000 will be awarded to the best _ _ _
05. December 2025

Popakademie renames major field of study

Starting in the 2026/2027 winter semester, the Popakademie Baden-Württemberg will rename the Singing/Songwriting specialization in the Bachelor's program in Pop Music Design and in the Master's _ _ _


16. December 2025

SONGS songwriting competition enters the next round

Until Sunday, March 9th 2026, students aged 11 to 21 can submit their music tracks for the SONGS songwriting competition. Prizes worth a total of up to €10,000 will be awarded to the best _ _ _
09. December 2025

How does Christmas sound to a new generation?

In the current winter semester, music business students Dominik Breitinger, Maya Holberg, Vladislav Kiselev and Sina Mücke are working on the musical development of the Weihnachtsmann & Co. KG _ _ _
05. December 2025

Popakademie renames major field of study

Starting in the 2026/2027 winter semester, the Popakademie Baden-Württemberg will rename the Singing/Songwriting specialization in the Bachelor's program in Pop Music Design and in the Master's _ _ _
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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