Holger Czukay
German musician (1938–2017)
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- Holger Schüring (24 March 1938 – 5 September 2017), known professionally as Holger Czukay ( ), was a German musician who co-founded the krautrock group Can.
- Biography Early life Czukay was born as Holger Schüring on 24 March 1938 in the Free City of Danzig (present-day Gdańsk, Poland).
- The family also changed their Polish last name "Czukay" to Schüring, a Dutch name.
- They booked tickets for a passage on the ship MV Wilhelm Gustloff , which was due to depart on 13 January 1945, but at the last moment his grandmother changed her mind and took them to the railway station, where they boarded a train carrying wounded soldiers to Berlin.
Holger Schüring (24 March 1938 – 5 September 2017), known professionally as Holger Czukay (), was a German musician who co-founded the krautrock group Can. Described as "successfully bridg[ing] the gap between pop and the avant-garde", Czukay also created early important examples of ambient music, explored "world music" well before the term was coined, and was a pioneer of sampling.
Biography
Early life
Czukay was born as Holger Schüring on 24 March 1938 in the Free City of Danzig (present-day Gdańsk, Poland). According to Holger, his grandfather told the Third Reich officials that their family "must be Aryan", and came up with a family tree supporting the claim. The family also changed their Polish last name "Czukay" to Schüring, a Dutch name. In early 1945, after World War II, his family was expelled from Poland. They booked tickets for a passage on the ship MV Wilhelm Gustloff, which was due to depart on 13 January 1945, but at the last moment his grandmother changed her mind and took them to the railway station, where they boarded a train carrying wounded soldiers to Berlin. Gustloff was hit by a Soviet torpedo, and almost ten thousand passengers died.
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