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We are very happy to welcome you in our house.

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.


© TECHNOSEUM, Christoph Asmus
01. October 2025

Popakademie alumnus provides sound for the TECHNOarena

The TECHNOSEUM now offers a new, innovative format for science communication that takes visitors behind the scenes of research and development: the specially designed TECHNOarena regularly hosts high-profile institutions that present innovations in the field of future technologies, from smart robots to sustainable energy solutions – long before they are ready for the market.


29. September 2025

Start of the semester at the Popakademie

Today marks the start of the winter semester at the Popakademie Baden-Württemberg. With the official start of the semester, we welcome around 100 new students to our various degree programs. Among them are exchange students who are coming to the Popakademie for one or more semesters and enriching our university's international network.


© Gunda Schliep
25. September 2025

Mannheim reception at the Reeperbahn Festival 2025

On Wednesday, September 17, 2025, the Popakademie Baden-Württemberg, the city of Mannheim, and equipment insurer I'M SOUND presented themselves at the joint reception “Meet the Mannheimers” at the Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg. Over 300 friends of the Popakademie attended the event at the DOT Club.


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08
Oct
Bandsupport goes Popakademie
Bandsupport goes Popakademie!
  • JOSHUA CALEB
  • STILL SEARCHING
  • ELAJ
  • THE PARABERRIES

Admission is free.
Start
19:30
Popakademie, 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