Franz Teddy Kleindin

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Franz "Teddy" Kleindin (born July 20, 1914 in Berlin ; † October 12, 2007 there ) was a German jazz and entertainment musician ( clarinet , alto saxophone , cello ), composer, arranger and orchestra leader.

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Kleindin came from a musical family. His mother was already a cellist in the Skala Quartet in Karlovy Vary, he was the youngest of seven siblings to learn the cello, only to switch to the clarinet at the age of 13 after a broken wrist.

In 1932 he had his first engagement with the Vincent Douglas dance orchestra at Ufa for the film "Two Hearts and One Beat" with Lilian Harvey and Willy Fritsch in the leading roles. The then 17-year-old sat on the second saxophone next to Wolf Gradis from the Dajos Béla dance orchestra, who had hired the young students to reinforce the small orchestra of Walter Schwarz (alias Vincent Douglas ). Sun came to the filming and Werner Eisbrenner , who wrote the arrangements and sat at the piano and Otto Sachsenhauser as a guitarist on how well the later famous concert violinist Heinz Stanske , do so.

This was immediately followed by an engagement in the Fatherland House with the Manuel Romero tango orchestra , which was reinforced during the summer of 1932 by the jazz musicians of the Billy Barton Orchestra. Inquiries from Hermann Rohrbeck and Joe Bund resulted in engagements in various Berlin dance cafés. After some time with Ilja Livschakoff as clarinetist and cellist, where he was involved in recordings for Deutsche Grammophon , this Jewish concert violinist and orchestra leader emigrated to Argentina, so that Kleindin became unemployed. After two months in the orchestra pit of the Charlottenburg Opera, he auditioned for Teddy Stauffer in August 1936 and immediately became an Original Teddy with a top salary of RM 660 ; Due to his ability to write arrangements, he became a sentence leader.

He was temporarily released from military service for a Swedish tour of Heinz Wehner's dance orchestra , but then had to become a member of the Reich Chamber of Music, which he knew how to avoid beforehand due to the high membership fees. Alternately, he jumped back in with Stauffer after his military service in the Wehrmacht, and has since become one of the most sought-after studio musicians in Germany. Recordings were made with the Golden Sieben , Hans Carste , Erwin Steinbacher , Joe Bund , Willy Berking and many other famous Berlin dance orchestras. During the Second World War in February 1941 he played in the orchestra of the Dutchman Ernst van't Hoff , became a permanent member of Willi Stech's radio orchestra and repeatedly played with Lutz Templin , including his propaganda recordings under the name Charlie and His Orchestra ; he was also able to record Benny Goodman- style records for Telefunken from 1941 to 1944 with his own combo .

From 1942 he arranged the orchestras of Albert Vossen and Kurt Hohenberger , played with Corny Ostermann and until November 1944 with Kurt Widmann , with whom he was a close friend, and made several recordings with his cousin Henriette Schäffler and her husband Primo Angeli in 1942/43 at the record company Imperial . His role models Benny Goodman , Artie Shaw and Benny Carter can be seen in his musical style, whereby he is considered one of the most virtuoso among German jazz clarinetists.

In 1947 and 1948 he made further recordings under his own name with musicians from the Freddie Brocksieper Band for the Union label of the son of the owner of the Babelsberg Tempo record, Otto Stahmann Jr. In 1948 Georg Haentzschel brought him to Bayerischer Rundfunk as a set leader in its dance orchestra under Herbert Beckh ; After the swing group broke up, he switched to the radio symphony orchestra in 1950, where he played as a clarinetist until he retired in 1979.

In 2004 there was another jam session with the participation of Coco Schumann and Emil Mangelsdorff in Berlin for a Japanese television production. He can be heard on recordings by Primo Angeli , Willy Berking , Freddie Brocksieper , Heinz Munsonius , Hans Georg Schütz , Willi Stech and Kurt Widmann , among others .

Discographic notes

  • Clarinet Magic (1941–1948, Edition Antikbüro, Berlin 2004)

Shellac records (selection)

  • Clarinet magic (Telefunken A 10340, Berlin, June 12, 1941)
  • Beautiful woman (Telefunken A 10435, Berlin, March 17, 1942)
  • Tonight we want to go shopping (Telefunken A 10479, Berlin, June 22, 1942)
  • I say "Yes" (Telefunken A 10489, Berlin, October 31, 1942)
  • Tomorrow everything will be fine (Telefunken A 10512, Berlin, April 29, 1943)
  • Marika stands by the Danube (Tempo 5161, Babelsberg, August 16, 1944)
  • Chattanooga Choo Choo (Union Record 2578, Munich, January 1948)

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SURNAME Kleindin, Franz Teddy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kleindin, Franz (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz and entertainment musician
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 2007
Place of death Berlin