Klaus Barkowsky

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Klaus D. "Lamborghini Klaus" Barkowsky (* 1953 in Hamburg ) is a German artist and former pimp . He was also known as The Handsome Klaus .

Life

Barkowsky was 15 years old for the first time on the Reeperbahn and in the 1970s it became a big part of the Kiez. He took the name Lamborghini- Klaus after being overtaken by a Porsche 911 in his first car, a Corvette , in the early 1970s . So he wanted a car from Auto Becker that he could never be overtaken again. He found a Lamborghini Miura SV at Hubert Hahne .

At the age of 20 he worked in a bar on the Reeperbahn , the managing director of which he became after a few months.

He was one of the founders and leaders of the " Nutella gang ", a group of pimps in St. Pauli , particularly along Herbertstrasse and the Reeperbahn. Among other things, he rented establishments in the Eros Center and had up to 15 women purchased for himself. In the Nutella gang he was active with Thomas Born , among others . In weddings he earned up to 10,000 marks a day.

Barkowsky was the first time in 1989 a prison sentence after a knife throwing in a neighborhood - Bistro had organized a 21-year-old hit in which a blade in the back. In "Charly Nightbar" at Hamburger Berg 29, he was an Austrian pimp false game accused and shot. In the Hamburger Abendblatt of January 24, 1986, the article The End of the Nutella Gang reported that Barkowsky had been shot. This had to the editor in a reply correct. Then he got out of pimping.

Today Barkowsky lives and works as an artist in Hamburg. As an autodidact , he mainly works with brushes, scrapers, combs, spatulas and hands.

Barkowsky has three children.

Individual evidence

  1. The end of the "Nutella" gang . In: Hamburger Abendblatt from January 20, 1986, viewed on March 23, 2018.
  2. Reply . In: Hamburger Abendblatt of February 3, 1986, viewed on March 23, 2018.