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Popakademie
We arepeople who design
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

Good to see you!

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.



15. September 2025

Bandpool application phase begins

The Popakademie Baden-Württemberg is looking for the 28th generation of its Bandpool program. Bandpool is the Popakademie's flagship support program, which operates outside of the regular _ _ _
16. September 2025

Popakademie at the Reeperbahn Festival

The Popakademie Baden-Württemberg will once again be participating in the Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg, which takes place from September 17 to 20, 2025, with a packed program. _ _ _
12. September 2025

YouTube and Popakademie release AI toolboard

As part of a YouTube-sponsored project at SMIX.LAB, current AI tools in the music industry are being researched, described according to use cases, and summarized on an overview page. The project _ _ _


16. September 2025

Popakademie at the Reeperbahn Festival

The Popakademie Baden-Württemberg will once again be participating in the Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg, which takes place from September 17 to 20, 2025, with a packed program. _ _ _
15. September 2025

Bandpool application phase begins

The Popakademie Baden-Württemberg is looking for the 28th generation of its Bandpool program. Bandpool is the Popakademie's flagship support program, which operates outside of the regular _ _ _
12. September 2025

YouTube and Popakademie release AI toolboard

As part of a YouTube-sponsored project at SMIX.LAB, current AI tools in the music industry are being researched, described according to use cases, and summarized on an overview page. The project _ _ _
15 Oct

16 Oct
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.

Admission is free.
Start
20:00
Popakademie, Hafenstr. 33, Raum 001
21
Oct
Popakademie Talks
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 “Music, Populism, and Radicalism.”

Participation is free of charge.
Start
19:00
Popakademie, Hafenstr.33
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