Punk and New Wave in Germany - a deep insight into the transformative years at the beginning of the 1980s. When Jürgen Teipel's book "Verschwende deine Jugend" was released in 2001, no one expected its enormous success. The conversations with musicians from the German punk and new wave underground of the early 1980s (including Einstürzende Neubauten, Fehlfarben, and DAF) sparked a wave of nostalgia. The "soundtrack to the downfall" that the angry young musicians sang at the beginning of the Kohl era is once again on everyone's lips, and some bands from that time have even reformed in light of the revival. Frank Apunkt Schneider provides with "Als die Welt noch unterging" what Jürgen Teipel's "Oral History" could not and did not want to offer: a detailed chronicle of the emergence and development of the punk and wave underground in Germany between 1978 and.