The professors Oswin Kelle and Rudolf Fischer were her piano teachers, Paul Schenk taught her musical composition.
Thanks to a teaching permit from the Academy of Music after the end of the war, she gave private piano lessons for children from Wurzen and Leipzig from 1946 to 1953.
Her son Christof, born one year later, was taught music by his mother and finally made his debut as a singer at the Dresden Semperoper.
In 1966 she decided to study composition in the evening, a task she completed in 1971 - as the first woman at the Dresden University - with a Staatsexamen.
She received numerous awards for her manifold musical and music pedagogical work as well as her social commitment, e.g. the Pestalozzi-Medaille für treue Dienste [de] in bronze in 1964 and in silver in 1973, the needle of honour for composers and scientists in bronze in 1976 and in silver in 1988.
In 1982 the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden awarded her their highest distinction, the Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Plakette.
Hoyme's main field of work was chamber music for strings, winds, piano and the vocal field with song cycles, choral works or cantatas, mainly based on texts by Albert Schweitzer, but also by Goethe, Eichendorff, Storm, Becher, Morgenstern, Eva Strittmatter and Ho Chi Minh.