Trivia

He was awarded the Deutscher Filmpreis for film music in 1971.

He played not only guitar but also oud, saxophone and violin.

After graduating from boarding school in Marktoberdorf, he initially studied painting at the art academy in Munich.

With his band Amon Düül II, he composed film music for Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Niklashauser Fart [de] and Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's film San Domingo.

Karrer was a German guitarist and composer.

He was known as the co-founder of the Amon Düül commune and as a member of the related and much more commercially successful project Amon Düül II.

Karrer began playing the banjo and soprano saxophone at the age of twelve.

His last solo album Grandezza Mora (1999) was dedicated to another of the musician's long-standing preferences, namely the timbres of the flamenco guitar.

He collaborated with the world music band Embryo.

After the break-up of the band Amon Düül (founded in 1967), he released the solo album Chris Karrer (1980), which did not appeal to the public and therefore had no successor for a decade.