Germany increasingly promotes pop music
With a new academy and a prize for pop music, sponsored by the Federal Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM), Monika Grütters, the pop music scene in Germany is to be given greater support in its development in future.
The founding members of the Academy, which will decide on the award for the first time in 2022 and is also intended to accompany and help shape the German pop music scene as a forum, include Herbert Grönemeyer, Shirin David, Nura, Sarah Farina and Roland Kaiser.
The new prize will be awarded by the Initiative Musik, whose sole shareholders are the German Music Council and the Gesellschaft zur Verwertung von Leistungsschutzrechten (GVL). The Initiative Musik, which is funded by the BKM, has already been presenting the APPLAUS award for live music programs in the pop music and jazz sector since 2013 and has also been awarding the German Jazz Prize since 2021.
More information about the new academy and the prize for pop music can be found at www.initiative-musik.de.
