Renate Brockpähler (9 March 1927 − 23 November 1989)[1] was a German folklorist.
From 1944 she was in the Reich Labour Service and until March 1945 in the camp Gorspen-Vahlsen [de], where she got to know the meaning of singing.
with a thesis on the history of baroque opera in Germany at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität.
Brockpähler published several articles in the Rheinisch-westfälische Zeitschrift für Volkskunde.
[3] With Dietmar Sauermann [de] she worked on a prisoner of war project, during which she died at the age of 62.