Worm was born in Zittau in 1930. There, he attended the humanistic grammar school and studied piano, then conducting and musicology in Dresden, Weimar and Berlin. After his state examination in conducting and musicology, Worm assumed overall responsibility for repertoire planning, artist support and the budget for the GDR record label "Eterna" from 1954 to 1972.Landesarchiv ThüringenChemnitzgeschichte.de In 1972, after a trip to Japan, Worm was "received at the airport with a strict order not to enter his workplace again." As a result of this dismissal, Worm was unemployed for almost three years.
