James Bond comes from the Ruhrpott? A biography claimed that the spy come from Wattenscheid, a district of Bochum. There is an exhibition to visit the Original props now loads of many of the Bond films.
In his first James Bond novels, Ian Fleming has revealed little about the origin and the Background of the spy. Bond obviously had to be British, finally, 007 works for the secret service of the United Kingdom. But that is all we know officially.
After the success of the first Bond film “James Bond Dr. No hunt”from the year 1962, published Fleming You live in, some of the biographical Details in his next novel “only twice” (1964), the match with the Background of the actor Sean Connery, who played the secret agent in seven films. In it Bond is missing. In an obituary, by his superior m., the head of the secret service, mentioned written the names and nationalities of 007s parents. His father was Andrew Bond, a Scotsman like Sean Connery, while his mother, Monique Delacroix, was Swiss – the inter-nationality of the spy.
Born in the Ruhr area – due to a rail strike
Later, John Pearson, a former assistant to Ian Fleming at the Sunday Times, a biography of the fictional novel, written character, “Agent 007: A fictional biography,” which was first published in 1973. Based on the elements that are already found in Fleming’s novels, it fills the gaps in bond’s life.
In Pearson’s book 007 Fans discovered that James Bond in Wattenscheid in the Ruhr area on March 11. November 1920 was born. At that time a separate town, is part of Wattenscheid, now of Bochum, where on 1. February, the exhibition “In secret Mission – The spy, and is opened from Wattenscheid”.
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The James Bond ActorThe first Bond: Sean Connery
With the Scotsman Sean Connery as a secret agent, the Bond series was started in 1962 on the cinema screen. Of course, there was already plenty of Action, but Bond also had plenty of Sex Appeal. HIV and #MeToo were still unthinkable, and so bond’s wear to women was high. Our image shows Connery in a scene with Honor Blackman in “Goldfinger” (1964).
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The James Bond ActorThe one-time Bond George Lazenby
As Connery agent jobs was tired, replaced it, the Australian George Lazenby – a one-time appearance: He played 007 in the Film “In her Majesty’s secret service” (1969). Producers and the audience were with the former Model, the warm – and so you were attracted to Sean Connery for “diamonds are forever” with a Rekordgage, the Film grossed a zillion times.
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The James Bond ActorThe most common Bond: Roger Moore
Good appearance, seasoned with a pinch of self-irony: Roger Moore, the first native-born Englishman in the Bond role, came from the audience extremely well. None of the James Bond played more often: of 1973 (“live and let die”) and 1985 (“In the face of death”) seven Times. Here he fights in 1977, with the “jaws” played by Richard Kiel in “The spy who loved me”.
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The James Bond ActorThe most “real” Bond? Timothy Dalton
The Bond-Interpretation of the Welsh Theatre actor Timothy Dalton was the literary figure, according to many critics and readers of the Ian Fleming novels. Commercially The living daylights “(1987) and” license to Kill “(1989)”. And so the producers had worked together more with Dalton, but not more liked.
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The James Bond ActorThe Irish Bond: Pierce Brosnan
Shaken, not stirred – this was also the case for the Martinis, the Pierce Brosnan as James Bond sipped. The Irishman was already provided in front of Timothy Dalton as Bond, but had to because of contractual obligations to “Remington Steele” cancel. Four times he appeared as 007 – here in his last Film, “die another day” (2002).
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The James Bond ActorThe blond Bond: Daniel Craig
Daniel Craig was in 2005 as a new Bond is highly controversial. To be inconspicuous, he was the film fans and blonde. The criticism of “Casino Royale” (2006, image), however, were then but mostly positive. 2020 of the fifth – and probably last? Bond with Craig in the main role in the cinema.
According to Pearson, bond’s father Andrew was an engineer. To Krupps armament factories to resolve for the allies, had he been in Wattenscheid stationed. His wife, Monique Delacroix, have actually want for the birth of your child’s return to England, but a train strike had prevented it from.
Bond had early become an orphan, his parents died in a climbing accident in the Swiss Alps. The guardian had taken his aunt, the young James had returned, still regularly to Wattenscheid, where the family owned a summer house.
Maybe Zurich or Berlin, but it was
However, there are conflicting reports about bond’s place of birth. According to Charlie Higsons “Young Bond”books, other official series, based on Fleming’s stories, is born of a secret agent in Zurich. But the passport, according to the Daniel Craig is handed out as a Prop in the movie “Casino Royale”, saw Bond in West Berlin, and much later, on the 13. April 1968 – the light of the world.
Experts have tried James bond’s biography in Detail to check, have found that there are many inconsistencies within the own novels of the author. It seems, as Fleming had not disturbed the too much.
Film Journalist and Bond expert Siegfried Tesche looks at Pearson’s Version of the, probably the most reliable Fleming’s ideas, because of his close acquaintance with the author.
Fleming’s experiences in Germany
In spite of the many contradictions of the exhibition in Bochum Bonds celebrates its roots in the Ruhr area. Siegfried Tesche, Co-curator of the exhibition, also sees clear Parallels to the biography of Ian Flemings.
Sleek Lotus Esprit S1 from “The spy who loved me” (1977)
“A bit of James Bond in Ian Fleming again,” he said in a DW Interview. For example, the author, as well as 007 has worked, during the Second world war for the British naval intelligence service, before he began to work as a Journalist and author.
“Fleming has had to deal with the Nazis and German spies apart, and also with the Cold war later. The stories and things he has experienced during the Second world war, he built later in his novels,” says Tesche. Fleming have also studied in Austria, Germany and Switzerland, the Bond expert. He loved the Alps, where he is skiing and Climbing learned – these passions also appear in the adventures of his fictional character.
Among the exhibits, organized by Tesche for the James Bond exhibition in Bochum, several sports cars as the Lotus Esprit S1 from “The spy who loved me” (1977) and the one-man helicopter that 007 flies in “You only live once”(1967). In addition, costumes, screenplays and other Bond accessories. Several film screenings and discussions with the physics Professor Metin Tolan, for his analyses of the science behind the 007 film stunts known to accompany the exhibition.
The Bond-exhibition “In secret Mission – The spy who came in from Wattenscheid” is up to 31. To see the March in Bochum.