Carola Bauckholt (born 21 August 1959) is a German composer. She was born in Krefeld, West Germany. She worked at the theater at the Marienplatz in Krefeld and studied music with Mauricio Kagel the Cologne Musikhochschule from 1978-84. Bauckholt co-founded Thürmchen Verlag in 1985, a publishing house in Cologne, and in 1991 co-founded the Thürmchen ensemble, also in Cologne. In 1990-91, she attended the Stuttgart Academy on scholarship, in 1992 the Schreyahn Artists' Colony in Lower Saxony and in 1997 the Villa Massimo in Rome.