Bravo Bravo - James Dean and Peter Kraus
12/14/2017
What is this supposed to have to do with cars? Bravo magazine wasn't really aimed at car drivers, but at teenagers. However, we probably all were, and there is probably only a minority of Zwischengas readers who have never leafed through or read Bravo magazine.
In fact, the magazine, which was published from 1956 and mainly dealt with celebrities and stars, had little to do with cars. One exception was issue 21/1959, which we recently found in our paper archive. On the cover, the actor James Dean, who famously died in a Porsche, is smiling.
You have to wonder whether the story in Bravo was really entirely true, but it sounded good: "I was there a few minutes later (editor: after the collision with the Ford on September 30, 1955). I saw the little sports car with its wheels in the air. I saw James Dean pressed against the steering wheel, a barely believable, serene expression in his eyes, covered all over with tiny shards of glass, his glasses, which he always wore except when filming. You couldn't see any injuries, neither cuts nor blood. This serene face in the middle of this terrible scene was the final contrast of a boy who had lived in a thousand contrasts ..."
The Porsche in question was depicted twice, but that was it for the automobile.
However, we did find something interesting, albeit in issue 32/1960, which was no less beautifully bound.
On page 17, there was an article about the young Peter Kraus, the German rock'n'roller, who is known to have a great love for the old automobile today and appears at many events in his classic cars, whether Jaguar SS 100 or others.
Back then, Peter Kraus almost lost his "Golden Lion". He was late for the award ceremony, not because his car (or the cab) wasn't working, but because all the doors had been closed early due to the large number of guests and the doorman didn't want to let him in either ....
P.S. For nostalgics, such early Bravo magazines are of course a real treasure trove, but they still don't quite fit into the Zwischengas magazine archive ...
