Damping material for a damping layer or interlayer of a brake lining, having at least a rubber fraction and a resin fraction, there being formed in the damping material (10, 20, 30) a multiplicity of microscopic, heterogeneously delimited areas which comprise rubber areas having an increased rubber fraction of 3% by weight to 50% by weight, a fibre fraction of 20% to 90% by weight and a filler fraction of 0% to 50% by weight, based in each case on the weight of the rubber areas, and resin areas having an increased resin fraction of 5% to 50% by weight, a fibre fraction of 10% to 90% by weight and a filler fraction of 0% to 50% by weight, based in each case on the weight of the resin areas, and where the rubber areas are free from resin and the resin areas are free from rubber, or the rubber areas have up to 5% by weight of resin, obtainable from a rubber premix and a resin mixture by a method which comprises the following method steps: a) rubber premixing (i) providing the starting materials for the rubber areas, (ii) at least once kneading the starting materials from step (i), (iii) grinding the material obtained in step (ii) to a particle size of less than 4 mm, b) resin mixing and distributing the particles from step (iii) in the resin mixture, (iv) providing the raw materials of the resin areas, which comprise resin or resin mixtures, (v) mixing the particles from step (iii) with the raw materials from step (iv) and (vi) pressing the material obtained in step (v) to form the desired damping material (10, 20, 30). resin areas having an increased resin fraction of 5% to 50% by weight, a fibre fraction of 10% to 90% by weight and a filler fraction of 0% to 50% by weight, based in each case on the weight of the resin areas, and where the rubber areas are free from resin and the resin areas are free from rubber, or the rubber areas have up to 5% by weight of resin, obtainable from a rubber premix and a resin mixture by a method which comprises the following method steps: a) rubber premixing (i) providing the starting materials for the rubber areas, (ii) at least once kneading the starting materials from step (i), (iii) grinding the material obtained in step (ii) to a particle size of less than 4 mm, b) resin mixing and distributing the particles from step (iii) in the resin mixture, (iv) providing the raw materials of the resin areas, which comprise resin or resin mixtures, (v) mixing the particles from step (iii) with the raw materials from step (iv) and (vi) pressing the material obtained in step (v) to form the desired damping material (10, 20, 30). a) rubber premixing (i) providing the starting materials for the rubber areas, (ii) at least once kneading the starting materials from step (i), (iii) grinding the material obtained in step (ii) to a particle size of less than 4 mm, (i) providing the starting materials for the rubber areas, (ii) at least once kneading the starting materials from step (i), (iii) grinding the material obtained in step (ii) to a particle size of less than 4 mm, b) resin mixing and distributing the particles from step (iii) in the resin mixture, (iv) providing the raw materials of the resin areas, which comprise resin or resin mixtures, (v) mixing the particles from step (iii) with the raw materials from step (iv) and (vi) pressing the material obtained in step (v) to form the desired damping material (10, 20, 30). (iv) providing the raw materials of the resin areas, which comprise resin or resin mixtures, (v) mixing the particles from step (iii) with the raw materials from step (iv) and (vi) pressing the material obtained in step (v) to form the desired damping material (10, 20, 30).