20 Jahre Freiburger Institut für Musikermedizin – Meilensteine aus Musikphysiologie & Musikermedizin

Contributors

Program

In the academic year 2025-2026, the Freiburg Institute for Musicians' Medicine(FIM) will celebrate its twentieth anniversary. We will celebrate this from Thursday, May 7 to Saturday, May 9, 2026 at the Collegeof Music Freiburg as part of the 24th Symposium of the German Society for Music Physiology & Musicians' Medicine(DGfMM). We cordially invite you to attend! Please reserve the days in your 2026 calendar now.

The opening of the congress will take place on May 7, 2026 at 2 pm, the end of the symposium is planned for May 9, also at 2 pm, so that you can use both days as arrival and departure days. Lectures, workshops, a ceremony and a party are planned. We are already looking forward to seeing you there!

Click here for the preliminary program (pdf) (this file is not barrier-free) (as of December 16, 2025)

Click here to register: https://dgfmm.org/veranstaltungen/symposium-2026

About the symposium:

The symposium offers a variety of insights into the field of music physiology & musician's medicine and provides suggestions for your own involvement with the subject area. We therefore warmly welcome musicians of all genres from the fields of amateur and professional music, lecturers, researchers, doctors and therapists as well as all interested parties.

In lectures, discussion rounds, workshops, poster presentations and a panel discussion, we would like to set and walk the milestones of our field together with you. This includes the training of young musicians in music physiology as well as the therapeutic care of singers and instrumentalists in medical consultations. The symposium contributions on research range from basic vocal physiology research to movement analysis in instrumentalists, stage fright, resilience and communication processes in ensemble playing to neuroscientific topics and much more. With the poster session, we would like to give you the opportunity to present your own projects and get to know each other. In the workshops, you can experience many topics in practice and discuss case studies from musicians' medical practice. Participants will also have the opportunity to take part in various working groups and get to know the work of the JUMMs (Young Forum).

The Freiburg Institute for Musicians' Medicine (FIM) will be celebrating its twentieth anniversary in 2026. We are delighted that a birthday concert will take place on Thursday evening, at which musicians from our own music academy, but also from other renowned ensembles, will perform "birthday serenades" of various kinds. You can look forward to a top-class and varied program! On Friday there will be a ceremony with lectures and a musical finale and afterwards we look forward to celebrating with you with live music and dancing!

Poster presentation - Call for Abstracts

Participants are cordially invited to take part in the poster presentation by submitting abstracts. The poster presentation - together with lectures, workshops, concert contributions and working groups - offers an important format at the symposium. Here you can present current results from your music physiology research and teaching, interesting insights into your practical work in music medicine or structural innovations in the field of music physiology & music medicine and discuss them with symposium participants. All abstracts related to Music Physiology & Musicians' Medicine are welcome.

The abstract should not exceed 300 words and should include the title of the presentation, the names of the authors, their institution and the e-mail address (first author) in the title. Please structure the abstract according to the following points: background, objectives, methods, results, discussion and conclusion. These points can also be adapted to the topic of the poster.

The official conference language is German, but poster presentations are also possible in English.

Please submit your abstract as a Word file with the following file name: "Name ErstautorIn, Kurztitel des Beitrags_DGfMM2026.doc".

The abstract should be sent to the following e-mail address:

The deadline for submitting abstra cts is February 28, 2026 Abstracts will be reviewed by a team of scientists. Criteria are originality, comprehensibility and methodological quality. The authors will be informed about the acceptance of the abstracts by March 15, 2026. We look forward to your numerous contributions.

Organizer:
German Society for Music Physiology and Musicians' Medicine e.V.
Web: https://dgfmm.org

in cooperation with
Freiburger Institut für Musikermedizin
and College of Music Freiburg

Scientific direction:
Prof. Dr. Dr. Claudia Spahn, Prof. Dr. Bernhard Richter
Freiburg Institute of Musicians' Medicine - College of Music Freiburg, Medical Faculty University Freiburg, University Hospital Freiburg

Organizing team:
Prof. Dr. Anna Immerz, Andreas Heideker, Dr. Dagmar Danko, PD Dr. Manfred Nusseck, Dr. Jesper Hohagen, Thomas Müller, Anna-Lena Schuppe (Freiburg), Dr. Janina Kruse (Munich), Helfried Böhme (Dresden)