Popakademie acts live at the Mannheim City Festival 2025
15. May 2025
This year, the Popakademie Baden-Württemberg will once again be represented at the Mannheim City Festival with exciting musical talents. From 23th to 25th May 2025, Mannheim's city center will once again be transformed into a large festival area with numerous stages, culinary offerings and a diverse music program.
Three acts from the Popakademie environment show their skills on different stages - arranged by the university's own music agency KLINKT, which has been helping Popakademie solo musicians, bands and producers with live events or music marketing projects since 2007. May 23th 2025 | Finja on the bigFM stage at the WasserturmFinja will kick things off on Friday evening from 19:15 on the Mainstage am Wasserturm presented by bigFM. With sensitive songwriting and a modern pop sound, Finja brings fresh sound colors to the stage.May 24th 2025 | Daniele Puccia on the Radio Regenbogen stage
On Saturday, Daniele Puccia will take over the Radio Regenbogen stage, also at the water tower. From 16:00, he will delight audiences with his catchy songs, Mediterranean charm and great musical expressiveness.May 25th 2025 | Emre Yeşil on the KulturNetz stage
Emre Yeşil will provide the atmospheric finale on Sunday evening. As the main act on the KulturNetz stage in the Planken (between O3 and O4), he will bring a very special mix of electronic sounds, urban beat and Turkish sound culture to the stage from 20:45 - a musical fusion that perfectly reflects Mannheim.In addition, Fofana Jo and Cris Cosmo, a student and an alumnus of the pop music design bachelor's degree program, will be performing on the Kulturnetzbühne on Saturday. The city festival is one of the largest and most diverse open-air events in the region - and offers the Popakademie artists an ideal platform to present themselves to a wide audience.Click here for the complete stage program.