Movies
Movie Designer Ken Adam is 95
For James Bond Thriller, he designed the aberwitzigsten Scenes: bond’s futuristic cars, the command center for the villains – all of which came from the pen of Ken Adam. The Berlin native for 95. Birthday.
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One of the most famous Sets of cinema
Recently presented to the Berlin film archive, the life’s work of Ken Adam: His “war Room” was created by Adam in 1963 for Stanley Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to love the bomb” – and wrote themselves into a collective cinema memory. US President Reagan sought the atomsichere Machtzentrale after his election in vain in the White house.
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Legacy before the time
“King George – Ein königreich for more wisdom” – for the debut of the British Nicholas Hytner drew Adam in 1994 the Royal bedroom. More than 4000 Film-drawings, photos, films and awards, including his two Oscars, gave Adam two years ago, the Deutsche Kinemathek in Berlin.
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As the pictures speak learned
Design for a conference room in the Agententriller “Company Business” by Nicholas Meyer: Elegant and easy results in Adam, the lines of his sketch. The rotlippige mouth today can be one-to-one in the Film to admire.
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Images like a spider’s web
Photo from the Bond Film “Moonraker – top secret” (1979). Ken Adam, the fact is Klaus Hugo Adam is and in 1921 was born in Berlin, emigrated in 1934 with his parents to the UK. There, he became the first German-born fighter pilot with the Royal Air Force and got keen on pace, Form and technique.
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On the hunt for the Superrakete
In “Moonraker” is chasing James Bond, alias Roger Moore a Superrakete after and rescues at the end of the world once again from destruction. The draft of the Raketenstartplatzes, of the “Launch Complex”, came from the pen of Ken Adam.
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Furtwängler – conductor of the Nazis?
What did the German conductor and composer Wilhelm Furtwängler of the crimes of the Nazis? “Taking Sides – Der Fall Furtwängler”, the Film by the Hungarian Istvan Szabo, asked awkward questions. During the filming of 2001 the photo was with production designer Ken Adam.
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Expressionists can greet
As if Lyonel Feininger was a model for “James Bond 007 – You only live twice”. Adams screenshots the early Bond film to icons made. Only seven bear his distinctive Look of dynamic lines and daring perspectives. Adams artistic prototype: German expressionism.
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Double “Oscar”-awards
Between “This” what a woman” from 1948 and “Taking Sides – Der Fall Furtwängler” (2001) 53 years of the cinematic career of Ken Adam. Highlights were his two Oscars for “Barry Lyndon” (1975) and “King George – Ein königreich for more brains” (1995).
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By felt-tip pen in the galaxy
The master looks back: cigar Smoking, the legendary Flo-Master felt-tip pen drawn, the sketch of a scene in the movie – so posed Adam most recently in the 2013 media installation “Lines in Flow” by Boris Hars-Tschachotin.
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If a car a movie star will
Filmdesigner Ken Adam in the year 1968 with the designs to “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”. The Special Exhibition “Bigger Than Life. Ken Adam’s Film Design” at Deutsche Kinemathek in Berlin’s Museum for Film and television let zuetzt in his world. This Friday (5.2.2016) is Ken Adam 95 years old.
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One of the most famous Sets of cinema
Recently presented to the Berlin film archive, the life’s work of Ken Adam: His “war Room” was created by Adam in 1963 for Stanley Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to love the bomb” – and wrote themselves into a collective cinema memory. US President Reagan sought the atomsichere Machtzentrale after his election in vain in the White house.
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Legacy before the time
“King George – Ein königreich for more wisdom” – for the debut of the British Nicholas Hytner drew Adam in 1994 the Royal bedroom. More than 4000 Film-drawings, photos, films and awards, including his two Oscars, gave Adam two years ago, the Deutsche Kinemathek in Berlin.
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As the pictures speak learned
Design for a conference room in the Agententriller “Company Business” by Nicholas Meyer: Elegant and easy results in Adam, the lines of his sketch. The rotlippige mouth today can be one-to-one in the Film to admire.
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Images like a spider’s web
Photo from the Bond Film “Moonraker – top secret” (1979). Ken Adam, the fact is Klaus Hugo Adam is and in 1921 was born in Berlin, emigrated in 1934 with his parents to the UK. There, he became the first German-born fighter pilot with the Royal Air Force and got keen on pace, Form and technique.
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On the hunt for the Superrakete
In “Moonraker” is chasing James Bond, alias Roger Moore a Superrakete after and rescues at the end of the world once again from destruction. The draft of the Raketenstartplatzes, of the “Launch Complex”, came from the pen of Ken Adam.
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Furtwängler – conductor of the Nazis?
What did the German conductor and composer Wilhelm Furtwängler of the crimes of the Nazis? “Taking Sides – Der Fall Furtwängler”, the Film by the Hungarian Istvan Szabo, asked awkward questions. During the filming of 2001 the photo was with production designer Ken Adam.
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Expressionists can greet
As if Lyonel Feininger was a model for “James Bond 007 – You only live twice”. Adams screenshots the early Bond film to icons made. Only seven bear his distinctive Look of dynamic lines and daring perspectives. Adams artistic prototype: German expressionism.
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Double “Oscar”-awards
Between “This” what a woman” from 1948 and “Taking Sides – Der Fall Furtwängler” (2001) 53 years of the cinematic career of Ken Adam. Highlights were his two Oscars for “Barry Lyndon” (1975) and “King George – Ein königreich for more brains” (1995).
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By felt-tip pen in the galaxy
The master looks back: cigar Smoking, the legendary Flo-Master felt-tip pen drawn, the sketch of a scene in the movie – so posed Adam most recently in the 2013 media installation “Lines in Flow” by Boris Hars-Tschachotin.
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If a car a movie star will
Filmdesigner Ken Adam in the year 1968 with the designs to “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”. The Special Exhibition “Bigger Than Life. Ken Adam’s Film Design” at Deutsche Kinemathek in Berlin’s Museum for Film and television let zuetzt in his world. This Friday (5.2.2016) is Ken Adam 95 years old.
Adam always has great thought, even if the Budget was small. “Bigger than Life” called the German Kinematek in Berlin, therefore, also in 2014, her large-scale exhibition to the work of Set Designers and film architects. The Museum has he 2012 his artistic work as a gift. The collection comprises approximately 4,000 sketches, photo albums, films, Storyboards, location photos, memorabilia, military medals and identity documents as well as all cinematic awards. Two times received Ken Adam an Oscar.
Small Budget, big ideas
Already in his first Bond Film “007 jagt Dr. No” had Adam to improvise: in The end he created – despite tight Budgets – for seven Bond Thriller with an Arsenal stilprägender spaces, and special effects. There was the laser beam-machine – under the 007 “Goldfinger” (1964) strapped. There was a rogue headquarters inside of a volcano, in the strip “You only live twice” (1967). Unforgettable also Adams underwater Scooter, the ejection seat in the Aston Martin or the space station, for “Moonraker” (1979). Even the famous war Room from Stanley Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove. Or: How I learned to love the bomb” (1964) was the idea of Adam. And for the “Addams Family”, he designed a Gothic house.
As Klaus Hugo Adam, Adam was in 1921 born in Berlin. His father led together with his brothers, a great sports – and fashion store on the corner of Leipziger-/Friedrichstrasse. 1934 had to the Jewish family from the Nazis to Britain to flee. There he still lives today.