University Glossary

  • Accessible Education
    The Hochschule aims to break down barriers and facilitate equal and independent participation in studies and student life for students with disabilities or chronic diseases. The Representative for students with disabilities and chronic diseases offers you confidential counselling and helps you with questions about your study and life situation, options for compensating for disadvantages (Nachteilsausgleich) and our further offers. It is aimed at students with visual, hearing and mobility impairments as well as students with chronic and mental health issues.

    The German Student Union offers general advice and counsel on studying with a disability.
  • Accident Insurance
    If you are enroled at the school and you have an accident, please alert the school immediately. All students at HfM are legally insured through the school for accidents. The insurance covers accidents at the workplace (school) – this includes accidents on the way to or from the school.

    If such an accident occurs, please inform the school without delay via the Service Unit Academic Affairs.

    Information for students - Unfallkasse Berlin (German)
  • Asimut
    Teachers and students use this room booking system to plan and organise the rooms available at both HfM locations.

    For questions and problems please contact asimut.hilfe(at)hfm-berlin.de.
  • AStA - Allgemeiner Studierenden Ausschuss

  • Email Account

    All enrolled students receive a HfM email address. User name and password will be provided during matriculation.

    All communication from HfM will be sent to this email address. You will recieve important information from the following offices:
    • Enrolment, Examination and Student Advising
    • Services and International Affairs
    • Finances
    • The various departments
    • Orchestra Office
    • Lecturers
    • Scholarship Office

Your account is accessible through your web browser at https://mail.hfm-berlin.de (OutlookWebAccess - OWA) or can be set up to be accessed through various email programs or apps for PC, mac, or mobile devices. However, setting up forwarding via OWA is not supported.

Your email account has a capacity of 2 GB. Please make sure you always have an appropriate amount of space available, for example, by deleting read emails or less important emails. If you do not have enough space, incoming emails will bounce/not be delivered.

Please note that using your account for spam email, for spreading punishable racist or discriminatory contents, or for registration for fee-based portals or commercial purposes (for example, Ebay or gaming platforms) is prohibited and is a punishable offense.

  • Fachsemester (Programme Semester)
    Fachsemester (programme semester) refers to which semester you are currently studying for your current programme (not including leave of absences).
  • Free & Reduced-Priced Tickets

  • Hochschulsemester (University Semester)
    Hochschulsemester (university semester) refers to the total number of semesters for which one has been enroled – this includes leaves of absences and previously completed study programmes.

  • Modules
    Modules are the fundamental structural elements of the Bachelor and Master courses. They can include different types of class formats on one thematic area. The study programmes at Hanns Eisler are structured in modules.
  • Musician's Health

  • Part-Time Studies
  • Practice Room Reservation Practice rooms are booked via the Asimut room booking system. In this room booking system, teachers and students plan and organise the rooms available at both HfM locations. If you have any questions or problems, please contact asimut.hilfe@hfm-berlin.de.