Abwärts ("Downwards") is a German

post-punk Post-punk (originally called new musick) is a broad genre of punk music that emerged in the late 1970s as musicians departed from punk's traditional elements and raw simplicity, instead adopting a variety of avant-garde sensibilities and non-roc ...

band from

Hamburg (male), (female) en, Hamburger(s), Hamburgian(s) , timezone1 = Central (CET) , utc_offset1 = +1 , timezone1_DST = Central (CEST) , utc_offset1_DST = +2 , postal ...

. Members

FM Einheit Frank-Martin Strauß, better known as F.M. Einheit and also known as Mufti, (born 18 December 1958, in Dortmund) is an industrial and electronic musician and actor from Germany. While primarily known for his percussion work with the influenti ...

and

Mark Chung Mark Chung (born June 18, 1970) is an American former soccer midfielder who played ten seasons in Major League Soccer. He also earned twenty-four caps, scoring two goals, with the US national team. Youth Chung was born in Toronto to Hakka Ch ...

would leave the group in the early 1980s to join

West Berlin West Berlin (german: Berlin (West) or , ) was a political enclave which comprised the western part of Berlin during the years of the Cold War. Although West Berlin was de jure not part of West Germany, lacked any sovereignty, and was under mi ...

band

Einstürzende Neubauten (, 'Collapsing New Buildings') is a German experimental music group, formed in West Berlin in 1980. The group is currently composed of founding members Blixa Bargeld (lead vocals; guitar; keyboard) and N.U. Unruh (custom-made instruments; perc ...

. Their best-known recordings include the single "Computerstaat" ("Computer State") (1980) and the albums ''Amok Koma'' (1981) and ''Der Westen ist einsam'' ("The West Is Lonely") (1982), 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''.''Verschwende Deine Jugend. Ein Doku-Roman über den deutschen Punk und New Wave''. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2001

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Abwarts Musical groups established in 1979 Neue Deutsche Welle groups German rock music groups Culture in Hamburg Musical groups from Hamburg 1979 establishments in West Germany