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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.


07. April 2025

Talks on the topic of “Music and democracy: taking a stand as an artist”

In the summer semester 2025, the Popakademie Baden-Württemberg is once again organizing the Popakademie Talks series. Guests from the music and cultural sector will present the topic “Music and democracy: taking a stand as an artist”: with NaviBand (Belarus/Poland), SOFFIE and Marlo Grosshardt, Johannes Blume. The second event is also a cooperative event in the “Democracy needs discourse” series with Mannheim's higher education institutions.


Becky Sikasa © Debora Maité Bottino
03. April 2025

Bandpool Act wins BBC Award

Great success for the former Bandpool participant from the Popakademie Baden-Württemberg: Becky Sikasa was honoured with the prestigious BBC Radio Scotland Award ‘Scottish Act of the Year 2025’.


Participants of the ISC 2024 © Leah Piazza
03. April 2025

Start of applications for the International Summer Camp at the Popakademie

The 15th International Summer Camp will take place at the Popakademie Baden-Württemberg from Saturday, July 26 to Thursday, July 31, 2025. More than 50 international musicians from various genres from the popular music and global music scenes will be coming to Mannheim during this time. Applications are possible until Sunday, June 01, 2025.


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23
Apr
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
29
Apr
Popakademie Talks
The Popakademie opens the series with the popular Belarusian indie pop band NaviBand, who took part in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2017. Known for their gripping songs and tireless commitment to political freedom, the musicians are among the ultimate romantic voices of the Belarusian music scene. After being expelled from their home country for their support of the political protests in 2020 following the contested presidential election, they are now touring Europe. With their concerts in Poland, the Czech Republic, Germany and other countries, they are sending a powerful message to the victims of the war in Ukraine and the brutal repression of protesters in Belarus.
Start
19:00
Popakademie