Freddie Brocksieper

Freddie Brocksieper (August 24, 1912 - 1990) was a Turkey-born German drummer and bandleader.

Brocksieper was born in Constantinople but was playing professionally in Germany by 1930, working in Nuremberg and Berlin in the 1930s. During World War II he played with the Goldene Sieben, Benny De Weille, Willy Berking, and the radio orchestra of Lutz Templin. He recorded with his own ensembles, both large and small, in the later 1940s; he performed for American GIs in Stuttgart, Munich, and Berlin.

Brocksieper continued performing in the 1960s and 1970s, and was awarded a Deutscher Schallplattenpreis in 1980.

References

• "Freddie Brocksieper". The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, ed. Barry Kernfeld, 1994, p. 153.