Frank Hille

Frank Hille (* 1949 ; † November 24, 2004 in Berlin ) was a German musician.

Life

After attending the elementary school in Limbach-Oberfrohna ( Saxony ) and an abandoned waiter apprenticeship , Frank Hille turned his hobby into a profession. Discovered by musician Franz Bartzsch as a " Hey Jude " -singer drummer in the early 1970s, he played drums with Panta Rhei , Veronika Fischer , 4 PS and most recently with Pankow . In the bands he was known as a joker, often as a clown. He wrote the sentence “GDR rock musicians are like the sun, they rise in the east and set in the west”.

Hille has been voted "Drummer of the Year" in the GDR several times . After he left the GDR, things got quiet around him. After 1990 he worked full-time at BSR , but continued to perform in the now closed art and culture house KNORRE.

In 2004 Frank Hille died of cancer at the age of 55. On January 3, 2005, on the occasion of his death, a memorial concert (as a benefit concert) took place in the Tränenpalast in Berlin.

Participation

• 1980 in the Horst Krüger studio band with Frank Schöbel's LP Frank International as drummer, percussionist and singer
• 1981 with Frank Schöbel's LP What I dream of as a drummer
• In the Ines Paulke Band as a drummer and singer

Web links

• “They went up in the east and went under in the west” Article of November 26, 2004 on the death of Frank Hille in the Berliner Zeitung
• "Thanks in hurricane strength" article on the Frank Hille benefit concert in the Tränenpalast on January 5th, 2005
• “In the east he used to be something of a rock star. So what? ” Obituary in the Berliner Tagesspiegel on February 4, 2005

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Music: East rocker Frank Hille has died. mz-web.de of November 9, 2004, accessed on November 4, 2019
2. ↑ Frank Hille at rockradio.de
3. ↑ ^{a b} www.federowski.com ( Memento from April 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Förderverein Theater Zwickau