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Popakademie
We arepeople who design
the future of music
Popakademie Baden-Württemberg - University for Music Business, Creative Industries and Popular Music
We arepeople who design
the future of music
Popakademie Baden-Württemberg - University for Music Business, Creative Industries and Popular Music

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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.



15. September 2025

Bandpool application phase begins

The Popakademie Baden-Württemberg is looking for the 28th generation of its Bandpool program. Bandpool is the Popakademie's flagship support program, which operates outside of the regular _ _ _
16. September 2025

Popakademie at the Reeperbahn Festival

The Popakademie Baden-Württemberg will once again be participating in the Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg, which takes place from September 17 to 20, 2025, with a packed program. _ _ _
12. September 2025

YouTube and Popakademie release AI toolboard

As part of a YouTube-sponsored project at SMIX.LAB, current AI tools in the music industry are being researched, described according to use cases, and summarized on an overview page. The project _ _ _


16. September 2025

Popakademie at the Reeperbahn Festival

The Popakademie Baden-Württemberg will once again be participating in the Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg, which takes place from September 17 to 20, 2025, with a packed program. _ _ _
15. September 2025

Bandpool application phase begins

The Popakademie Baden-Württemberg is looking for the 28th generation of its Bandpool program. Bandpool is the Popakademie's flagship support program, which operates outside of the regular _ _ _
12. September 2025

YouTube and Popakademie release AI toolboard

As part of a YouTube-sponsored project at SMIX.LAB, current AI tools in the music industry are being researched, described according to use cases, and summarized on an overview page. The project _ _ _
21
Sep
Sunday Beats - Naomi Westlake
© Aylin Ermutlu
Naomi Westlake will be performing at Sunday Beats on Sunday, September 21st 2025.

Feeling the bass in your veins and questioning the world at the same time is a match in her music. Naomi Westlake moved to Berlin at the age of 20 to make a name for herself with her definition of electronic off-pop. She combines modern Anglicism with profound, German pop lyrics and thematically always picks up on the escapism of her existence. Her sound world is mostly inspired by British role models such as Charli XCX, Fred Again or Kenya Grace. Thanks to her bilingual upbringing, she began writing lyrics in
German and English and achieved international success by collaborating with artists such as Sonny Wern, Lyente and OldJim. Her remix single of Nena's “Irgendwie, irgendwo, irgendwann”, together with OldJim and Caro van Ee, cracked the 3 million streams mark in 2024, and we can all be very excited to see what else is in store for us in the future. Their live set is as contrasting as their music. Her energy on stage is carried by strobe lights and techno dance moves, and at the same time she can silence an entire room with her quieter songs. Whether in a small setting as a DJ set or with a full band... Naomi makes people laugh and cry at the same time in no time at all.

The concert starts at 3 pm and is included in the park admission.
Start
15:00
Herzogenriedpark, Mannheim
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