Ebow • Pop-Kultur Festival Berlin 2025

In the organizer's words:

Pop-Kultur is the six-day festival for pop culture with live concerts, DJ sets, experimental music formats, talks, workshops and networking in the heart of Berlin.

"The Artist's Way: In conversation with Sara Geisler and Ebow"

Staying creative, even when it's hard. How can creativity be lived as a daily practice - beyond the pressure to succeed, self-marketing and blockades? As part of the Pop-Kultur Festival, journalist Sara Geisler and rapper Ebow talk about Julia Cameron's book "The Artist's Way", which has long since become a classic of creative self-care with rituals such as the "Morning Pages" or the "Artist Date".
In conversation, Cameron's ideas meet Ebow's artistic practice - between music, resistance and visibility - as well as Geisler's perspective as a cultural journalist who listens closely when it comes to the zeitgeist, creative routines and female self-confidence. An invitation to discuss art, everyday life and the courage to take yourself seriously as an artist.

Ebow, a rapper with Kurdish-Alevi roots, combines beats and attitude to create her own sound somewhere between trap, pop and political manifesto. On her solo albums and as a member of the band Gaddafi Gals, she raps against racism, sexism and for self-empowerment - raw, sensual, uncompromising. A voice of the present, loud and necessary.

Sara Geisler lives and works in Berlin, where she is head of the fluter.de editorial team at DUMMY Verlag - the youth magazine of the Federal Agency for Civic Education. She also writes reports - about people, milieus and moments - for Die Zeit, Der Standard and other media that still dare to print long-form.

About Pop-Kultur Talks

Pop culture is more than just music. Pop culture is not just about sound, but also about attitude, questions and discourse. In addition to concerts, DJ sets and the Commissioned Works, a series of talks is therefore also part of the festival - in 2025 for the first time separate from the live program and directly at the start of the festival week.

On Monday, we will be asking the big questions at the interface of music, society and the future. We will talk about the relationship between culture and business, discuss sustainability in the music industry - and take a special look at the music scene in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia.

Together we ask:

• How can independent labels and artists* regain more control over their art and careers?
• What role does counterculture play in a time of social upheaval? (Hosted by Deutschlandfunk)
• And: How much power is there in passion as a motor for creativity? (Hosted by Rolling Stone)
• We also present a new network of relevant music stakeholders in the German music industry - their aim is to make Black perspectives in the German music industry more visible and to strengthen them structurally.