Volkmar von Braunbehrens (born 22 March 1941 in Freiburg im Breisgau) is a German musicologist, specialising in research about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Braunbehrens studied history of literature, musicology, and art history in Munich, Heidelberg and Berlin; he received his PhD from the Free University of Berlin in 1974.
He is Privatdozent (associate professor) since 1981.
In 1976, he co-founded, and until 1981 co-edited, the journal Berliner Hefte – Zeitschrift für Kultur und Politik; for many years, he was director of an art gallery in Berlin.Braunbehrens is a former board member of the Humanist Union.
He lives as a freelance author in Freiburg.
His brother, Adrian Braunbehrens, is a writer and philologist.