Anton Claaßen

De Lange Tünn – Chicago am Rhein In post-war Germany, Cologne was the criminal metropolis par excellence. Murders, burglaries and brawls were the order of the day: The tabloid press dubbed the city Chicago on the Rhine. Pimping and gambling flourished in Germany's hippest nightlife. Cologne was home to the "Stenze", girls from the Levve, the rich and famous money lenders and contract rackets. And no one knew them better than Anton Claaßen, scene name: "Der Lange Tünn".

We were the milieu! Dummse Tünn, Schäfers Nas and Beckers Schmal, Abels Män, Frischse Pitter and the Lange Tünn ... Names that still have a ring to them in Cologne. Men who came to fame and fortune through their activities in Cologne's underworld and whose stories are brutal and evil, ice-cold and hard-boiled, but also naive, quirky and above all authentic. In the 1960s and 1970s, Cologne was dubbed "Chicago on the Rhine" by the tabloid press.