His diploma thesis with Gerd Schönfelder as subject teacher deals with the topic Möglichkeiten aleatorischer musikalischer Gestaltungsweisen für das Musiktheater – untersucht an Fritz Geißlers "Zerbrochenem Krug".
In 1980 he was awarded a doctorate by Udo Klement with the dissertation Studien zur Klangfarbe – unter Einbeziehung von Beispielen aus der Orchestermusik der DDR in den siebziger Jahren.
He began the Habilitation thesis Beziehungen zur Harmonik – ausgehend von Orchestermusikwerken Sachsens in den 1980er Jahren '(Relationships to Harmonics - based on orchestral music works of Saxony in the 1980s), which he did not complete.
[6] Sramek taught from 1978 to 1997 at the Institute for Musicology at the Leipzig University [de].
He also works as a music critic for music magazines such as Musik und Kirche [de], Üben und Musizieren, Das Orchester as well as the Freie Presse and the Ostthüringer Zeitung.