website associated_acts years_active label article_title background genre origin name
-lsb- http://www.abwaerts.com/ abwaerts.com -rsb- einstürzende neubauten 1979 -- zickzack abwärts
 group_or_band post-punk hamburg abwärts
abwärts

abwärts -lrb- `` downwards '' -rrb- is a west german post-punk group from hamburg .
members mark chung and fm einheit would leave the group in the early 1980s to join the berlin-based band einstürzende neubauten .
their best-known recordings include the single `` computerstaat '' -lrb- `` computer state '' -rrb- -lrb- 1980 -rrb- and the lp 's `` amok koma '' -lrb- 1981 -rrb- and `` der westen ist einsam '' -lrb- `` the west is lonely '' -rrb- -lrb- 1982 -rrb- , the latter in particular being regarded as a classic of west german post-punk .
the group is profiled along with other contemporaries in jürgen teipel 's 2001 documentary novel `` verschwende deine jugend '' .
