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The Popakademie Baden-Württemberg is a barrier-free building. The building has barrier-free access, the bus stop in front of the building is also barrier-free and therefore easy to reach by public transport. The Popakademie has a handicapped parking space, a handicapped accessible WC with a pull cord and emergency call switch, the doors are suitable for wheelchair users according to DIN18040 and can be operated by pushbuttons and are equipped with finger protection. A lift with Braille lettering and a stretcher are available in case of failure. In the house there are generous movement areas with turning possibilities and there are no thresholds. A pictorial description with common pictograms ensures easy orientation in the house. Ramps and fall protection are available for the stages. Additional ergonomic barriers for staff, students and visitors are available by appointment.

For all questions regarding accessibility in the house, please contact Alexandra Reiter Alexandra.Reiter@popakademie.de.

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.


30. November 2023

Popakademie professor closes European project

Prof. Dr. David-Emil Wickström, Head of the Pop Music Design and World Music Bachelor's degree courses at the Popakademie Baden-Württemberg, brings the European project "Power Relations In Higher Music Education" to a successful conclusion. The resulting recommendations were adopted by a large majority.


Provinz © Valentin Ammon
29. November 2023

Bandpool act named favorite band at the Pop Culture Award

On November 23rd 2023, the Prize for Pop Culture was awarded for the seventh time in Berlin. The association "Förderung für Popkultur e.V." awards its prizes in ten different categories, e.g. favorite artist, favorite band, favorite song and many more. The jury, consisting of players from the music industry, evaluates the talent of the participants and aims to guarantee fairness and transparency in the competition, whereby commercial success should not be the decisive factor.


23. November 2023

Workshop "SOUNDS" at Zukunft Pop x Electronic Music

At the Zukunft Pop conference on Saturday, December 9th 2023, experts from the electronic music scene will discuss electronic music. The program is curated by Arno Müller and Angie Taylor.


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05
Dec
Popakademie Talks on Music and Sustainability
Laura Knobloch
On Tuesday December 05th 2023 at 7:00 p.m. Laura Knobloch will be our guest and talk about sustainability in festival planning using the example of Enjoy Jazz. Laura Knobloch is an expert for sustainability and environmental management. She specialized in researching climate adaptation and resource management at the Humboldt University in Berlin. For years she has been dealing scientifically, professionally and voluntarily with questions and problems at the interface of man and nature.
At Enjoy Jazz she is responsible for transformation management and believes in the crucial role of culture in the development of a sustainable society.
Start
19:00
Popakademie, Hafenstr. 33, Raum 001
06
Dec
Producer's Club
Beats & Sound of the producing students! The line-up of the Producer's Club consists of students from the Pop Music Design bachelor's programme and the Popular Music master's programme with a focus on Producing/Composing Artist. Admission is free.
Start
20:00
Popakademie, Hafenstr. 33, Raum 001