Ludger Brümmer has received awards at the following contests:
- Concorso internazionale Luigi Russolo di musica elettroacustica, Varèse (Italy): 1992
- Concours de composition du Festival international de musiques sacrées — Fribourg, Fribourg (Switzerland): 2002
- Concours international de musique électroacoustique de Bourges, Bourges (Cher, France): 1997, 2001
- International Rostrum of Electroacoustic Music: 1998
- Prix Ars Electronica, Linz (Austria): 1994
- Stockholm Electronic Arts Award, Stockholm (Sweden): 1995