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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.

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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.


Nbg Pop will take place from October 8 to 10
22. July 2026

Popakademie collaborates with Nbg Pop for the first time

From October 8 to 10, 2026, Nuremberg will once again become the hub of Southern Germany’s largest club and showcase festival, complemented by the POP CONFERENCE and the GUNDA Pop Culture Award. This year, for the first time, the Popakademie Baden-Württemberg is partnering with Nbg Pop: the Bandpool acts Ein Rosenkavalier, FREUDE, and emi x will perform. During the conference portion, Prof. Dr. Alexander Endreß and David Stammer will present research projects on AI and music.


Clarsten beim Fokus Flinta* Konzert © Lisanne Angenent
17. July 2026

Popakademie is holding its end-of-semester concert at the Forum Mannheim

After a week of live exams at the Summer Break Sessions, the Popakademie Baden-Württemberg will celebrate the end of the summer semester with its end-of-semester concert at the forum Mannheim Youth Cultural Center. On Friday, July 24th 2026, selected bands and solo artists will present a musical “best of” from the exam week in a festive setting.


© Gunda Schliep
13. July 2026

Mannheim Reception at the 2026 Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg

On Wednesday, September 16th 2026, the Popakademie Baden-Württemberg, the City of Mannheim’s Creative Economy Cluster, and equipment insurer I’M SOUND will host a joint reception at the Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg. From September 16 to 19, 2026, Europe’s largest club festival will take place there, an event that has established itself as a central networking platform for music professionals from all fields.


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30
Jul
Final Concert International Summer Camp
© Thorsten Dirr
Come by the final concert of the International Summer Camp.

Band rehearsals, creative songwriting and music production are the focus of the summer course. There are also topic-relevant master classes, workshops and specials. Individual and group lessons in singing, songwriting, music production and various instruments complete the program. At the end of the week, all participants will present their results at a public final concert in the Popakademie.

Free admission
Start
20:00
Popakademie, Hafenstr. 3, Raum 001
28
Nov
Gala Concert: 250th Anniversary of the Mannheim School of Music
In cooperation with the State University of Music and Performing Arts, the Kurpfälzisches Chamber Orchestra, and the Mannheim Music School.

The founding of the “public music school” in Mannheim in November 1776 by Georg Joseph Abbé Vogler was an outstanding pioneering achievement. The training of professional musicians, financed by Elector Carl Theodor, can be regarded as the first precursor to state music academies. Reason enough for a joint gala concert, for which the National Theater Mannheim, the State University of Music and Performing Arts, the Kurpfälzisches Chamber Orchestra, the Mannheim Music School, and the Popakademie Baden-Württemberg are joining forces.
OPAL, Theodor-Heuss-Anlage 10, Manheim