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Abwärts

Band, *1979 DE, Hamburg
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Abwärts ("Downwards") 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" ("Computer State") (1980) and the LP's 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.

Members

	Axel Dill dr *1954 DE
	Rod Gonzalez g, b *1968 DE
	Blank Fontana DE
	Marc Chung b *1957 GB
	Peter Horn g *1952 DE
	Martin Dog Kessler dr DE
	Margitta Haberland voc, vn
	Marcel Zürcher g, key
	Michael Mayer g DE
	Uwe Bastiansen g DE
	Jochen Hansen b 1962-2012
	Frank Martin Strauß dr *1958 DE
	Frank Ziegert voc, g *1957 DE
	Gisbert Kellersmann b, g DE
	Joachim Osiek
	Thomas Zabel b DE