[3] In 1977 she took over a professorship for organ playing at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts.
In addition, she continued to teach in Berlin-Spandau and Heidelberg and, since 1985, as a guest lecturer at the Detmold Academy of Music.
[citation needed] In 1988 she was awarded the first full-time professorship for organ improvisation in Germany at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold.
[citation needed] Since her retirement, Zimmermann has given numerous courses in Germany, England, America, Korea and China.
[5] Literature by and about Renate Zimmermann in the German National Library catalogue