News and updates from the university
"A solid, creative force"
Tilman Oberbeck, artistic director of JazzHall Hamburg, is the winner of the prestigious Hamburg Jazz Award 2025! The prize, which is awarded every two years by…
Success for HfMT conducting student
Doğa Çetin, a student in Ulrich Windfuhr's conducting class, has made it to the second round of the innovative "CAMPUS DIRIGIEREN" competition. Born in Turkey,…
Anniversary on the Alster
The Hamburg University of Music and Drama (HfMT) is celebrating its 75th anniversary. Founded in the summer semester of 1950 from the private drama school of…
David Hermann becomes professor of directing in the music theater program
The Theater Academy of the Hamburg University of Music and Drama is pleased to announce the appointment of David Hermann to the professorship of the Musical…
Happy 95th birthday, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Hermann Rauhe!
It is with great appreciation that we congratulate our Honorary President Hermann Rauhe on his 95th birthday. For decades, he shaped the fortunes of the Hamburg…
Solidarity with student protests & offer of a safe space at the HfMT Hamburg
The Hamburg University of Music and Drama observes with concern anti-democratic developments such as the use of state power for autocratic positions of power…
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University of Music and Drama
With around 1400 students, the Hamburg University of Music and Drama is one of the largest artistic universities in Germany and offers artistic and academic training in all areas of music and theater.
Under the motto "Artistic excellence in social responsibility", the university is in a permanent process of creative reinvention and courageous further development. It is the aim of the university to critically and productively relate both aspects to each other in all its fields of work. Reflection on artistic processes is an indispensable prerequisite for this reciprocal relationship between art and society, between excellence and responsibility.