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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.


Music and Law
26. November 2024

Popakademie lecturers publish new anthology

Prof. Dr. Alexander Endreß, Head of the Music Business B.A. department, and Prof. Dr. Ralf Kitzberger, LL.M., are jointly publishing the book “Music and Law” with Nomos Verlag. The book is _ _ _
28. November 2024

Popakademie alumnus produces arte series “Metrokosmos”

Jonathan Thiemeier, founder and managing director of Seehund Media. GmbH, produced the series “Metrokosmos”. The series highlights various European cities from the perspective of the subway _ _ _
25. November 2024

Alumni release Original Soundtrack “Murder Mindfully”

Alumni Ziggy Has Ardeur and Konstantin Gropper composed and produced the soundtrack to the successful Netflix series “Murder Mindfully”. _ _ _


28. November 2024

Popakademie alumnus produces arte series “Metrokosmos”

Jonathan Thiemeier, founder and managing director of Seehund Media. GmbH, produced the series “Metrokosmos”. The series highlights various European cities from the perspective of the subway _ _ _
26. November 2024

Popakademie lecturers publish new anthology

Prof. Dr. Alexander Endreß, Head of the Music Business B.A. department, and Prof. Dr. Ralf Kitzberger, LL.M., are jointly publishing the book “Music and Law” with Nomos Verlag. The book is _ _ _
25. November 2024

Alumni release Original Soundtrack “Murder Mindfully”

Alumni Ziggy Has Ardeur and Konstantin Gropper composed and produced the soundtrack to the successful Netflix series “Murder Mindfully”. _ _ _
08
Dec
2. Bağlama-Symposium
The Popakademie Baden-Württemberg, the Mannheim Music School and the Mannheim State University of Music and Performing Arts are jointly organizing the second Mannheim Bağlama Symposium on Sunday, 8 December 2024 in the Börsensaal of the music school. Mannheim's Mayor of Education, Dirk Grunert, will open the event as patron. Cooperation partners are the Baden-Württemberg State Music Council and the Oriental Music Academy Mannheim.

On December 8, 2024 from 12 noon, the Popakademie, Mannheim Music School and the Mannheim University of Music invite you to the Bağlama Symposium in Mannheim. Erdal Erzincan, one of the best-known masters of this instrument, has been invited as a guest musician. The singer, multi-instrumentalist and bağlama player Derya Yıldırım will also be taking part, as will lecturers, students and alumni of the Popakademie's Global Music B.A. course.

Free admission!

Program

12:30 - 16:30: Music, lectures and discussions in the Börsensaal

Listen to interesting information lectures and discussions about study programs and education for Bağlama and join the discussion!

Keynote: Erdem Şimşek (Istanbul Technical University) “Rethinking Bağlama Education in 21st Century”

Panel I: Derya Yıldırım, Berivan Canbolat, Nihat Iman, Moderation: Sarah Ungan
Panel II: Erdal Erzincan, Taner Akyol, Erdem Şimşek, Kenan Tülek, Moderation: Tuğrul Türken

12:00 - 17:00: Information stands in the foyer

Find out about study opportunities for Bağlama: Global Music B.A. at the Popakademie, Bachelor Teacher Training in Music at the Mannheim University of Music, teaching opportunities at the OMM and Bağlama textbooks from Schott-Verlag. Catering will be provided.

17:00 - 21:00: Concert in the Börsensaal

Erdal Erzincan, Derya Yıldırım & Taner Akyol, Erdem Şimşek, Kenan Tülek, Ali Ungan, Ali Cabuk, Barış Kadem, Berivan Canbolat & Bero, Nihat Iman, Ensemble Mosaik - Interkulturelles Ensemble der Musikschule, Bağlama-Ensemble der Musikschule
Start
12:00
Börsensaal der Musikschule
10
Dec
Popakademie Talks
On Tuesday, December 10 at 7 pm, Zdeněk Nebřenský will talk about the artists of the Primitives Group, who were pioneers of the psychedelic sound in Czechoslovakia in the 1960s.
Start
19:00
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