Birthday
1938/03/24
Day of death
2017/09/05 (79 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Gdańsk, Poland
Also know as
Holger Schüring, Can
Holger Czukay, born Holger Schüring, was a German musician and actor, probably best known as a co-founder of the krautrock group Can. He studied music under Karlheinz Stockhausen from 1963 to 1966. Besides his participation in Can, Czukay recorded several albums. One of his trademarks was the use of shortwave radio sounds and his early pioneering of sampling, in those days involving the painstaking cutting and splicing of magnetic tapes. Cut-up-sounds. Holger Czukay collaborated with a considera...Read more
(2022) CAN and Me
as Self (archive footage)
(1970) Can - Live in Soest
as ---
(1998) Modulations
as Self
(2013) Kraftwerk: Pop Art
as Self
(1985) Steel Cathedrals
as Self - Dictaphone
(1988) Krieg der Töne
as The piano teacher
(1972) CAN: The Free Concert
as ---
(1999) CAN: The Documentary
as ---
(2009) Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany
as Self
(2017) Conny Plank: The Potential of Noise
as Self
(1991) Holger Czukay - Der Privatsinfoniker
as Himself