Werner Herzog

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Werner Herzog (born 5 September 1942) is a German film producer, screenwriter, author, actor, and opera director.

Herzog is a figure in the New German Cinema.

His films often feature young people with impossible aspirations, people with unique talents in obscure fields, or people who are in conflict with nature.

Since then, he has produced, edited, and produced more than sixty feature-and documentary films, including Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), Fitzcarraldo (1999), Encounters at the End of the World (2004), Port of Call New Orleans (2009), and Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010).

More than a dozen books of prose have been published, as well as many operas. François Truffaut, a French filmmaker, once referred to Herzog as the "most influential film director alive." Roger Ebert, an American film critic, said Herzog "has never produced a single film that is compromised, shameful, made for pragmatic reasons, or uninteresting."

And his flops are astonishing." In 2009, Time magazine named him one of the world's 100 most influential people.

Life

Herzog was born in Munich, Germany, to Elisabeth Stirich, an Austrian of Croatian descent, and Dietrich Herzog, a German. Since the house next to theirs was destroyed during an Allied bombing mission in World War II, Herzog was two weeks old. Herzog, who did not have running water, a sewage toilet, or a telephone in Sachrang, could not afford running water, a flushing toilet, or a telephone. "We had no toys, we didn't have no tools," he said, adding to the sense of anarchy as all the children's fathers were absent. He never watched movies and did not know of cinema until a visiting projectionist stopped by the one-room schoolhouse in Sachrang.

Herzog and his family returned to Munich when he was twelve years old. In his youth, his father abandoned the family early. Herzog later adopted Herzog (German for "duke"), which he thought was more impressive for a filmmaker. Herzog made his first phone call when he was seventeen years old; two years later, he began filming Herakles. Herzog says that when he finally met his father again, "fairly late in life," his mother had to translate Werner's German into the Bavarian dialect with which his father spoke so they could communicate. Herzog, a thirteen-year-old boy, was told by a nagging music teacher to perform in front of his class at school in an attempt to "break my back." When he adamantly refused, he was almost kicked out. The incident sparked him for life. Herzog listened to no music, sang no songs, and studied no instruments for many years, but when he turned eighteen, he immersed himself in music with heightened zeal.

He went from Catholicism to Catholicism at an early age, but only for a few years. He began long walks, some on foot. He knew he'd be a filmmaker and learned the basics from a few pages in an encyclopedia that promised him with "everything I wanted to get myself started" as a filmmaker, as well as the 35 mm camera he took from Munich Film School around this time. "I don't think about it stealing," Aguirre, the Wrath of God, says. It was just a necessity. I had some sort of natural right for a camera, which made it a great deal to work with.

No production company was able to take on his ventures during Herzog's last years of high school, so he worked night shifts as a welder in a steel factory to earn the funds for his first featurettes. He finished high school, but not before he officially graduated, he followed his mother to Manchester, England, where he spent many months learning to speak English. The language classes were pointless and "fled," he said. After graduating from high school, he was intrigued by the post-independence Congo, but he discovered only the south of Sudan before becoming seriously ill. He had a brief stint at Munich University, where he concentrated on history and literature while still making films. Herzog later moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in order to attend Duquesne University.

Herzog, as well as Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Volker Schlöndorff, were among the founding members of the New German Cinema, which featured documentarians who filmed on low budgets and were inspired by the French New Wave. He began to cast professional actors alongside people from the community in which he was shooting. "Usually set in distinctive and unfamiliar locations, his films are imbued with mistrust." Herzog claims that his Catholic upbringing is apparent in his "something of a religious echo in my work."

Although Herzog was location scouting for Aguirre, Peru's Wrath of God, he barely escaped flying LANSA Flight 508. Herzog's reservation was cancelled due to a last-minute change in itinerary. The plane was later struck by lightning and disintegrated, but Juliane Koepcke, one of the survivors, survived after a free fall. He made Wings of Hope (1998), a documentary film that delves into the life of the sole survivor of the event, long haunted by the event.

Herzog and his films have been nominated for and received many awards. (Nosferatu the Vampyre was also nominated for Golden Bear in 1979) His first major award was the Silver Bear Extraordinary Prize of the Jury for his first feature film Signs of Life. At the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Herzog received the Best Director award for Fitzcarraldo. His film The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser won the Grand Prix Spécial du Jury (also known as the 'Silver Palm') and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the Cannes Festival in 1975. Woyzeck (1979) and Where the Green Ants Dream (1984) were two other films directed by Herzog for Golden Palm. His films have been honored at many other venues around the world: César Awards (Aguirre, the Wrath of God), Emmy Awards (Little Dieter Wants to Fly), European Film Awards (My Best Fiend) and the Venice Film Festival (Scream of Stone and The Wild Blue Yonder). In 1987, Herzog and his half-brother Lucki Stiri received the Bavarian Film Award for Best Producing for the film Cobra Verde. During the Kraków Film Festival in Kraków, Poland, he received the Dragon of Dragons Honorary Award.

In order to criticize and encourage Morris, who was previously believed to be inept at following up on the proposals he created, Herzog once promised to eat his shoes if Errol Morris finished the film project on pet cemeteries he had been working on. Herzog cooked and publicly ate his shoes in 1978, which was later turned into a short film Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe by Les Blank. At the function, Herzog expressed hope that the act would encourage anyone who had trouble getting a proposal to fruition.

Herzog began a three-week pilgrimage in the winter of 1974, after being informed of his friend Lotte H. Eisner's impending death, he began travelling from Munich to Paris by foot. Eisner's life would be extended by this act of charity, according to him. During these travels Herzog kept a notebook that would later be published as Of Walking in Ice.

In the late nineties, Werner Herzog and his wife moved to Los Angeles with his wife. "Wherever you look, there's a tumult that resonates with me." More concerned about money than anything else, New York is more concerned about finances than anything else. It doesn't create culture; it consumes it; the bulk of what you find in New York comes from elsewhere. In Los Angeles, things actually get done. Taking a look beyond Hollywood's glitter and glam on Hollywood and a flurry of vivid dreams opens up; it has more horizons than any other place. A considerable amount of industry exists in the city and a modern working class; I also appreciate the Mexicans' vibrant presence.

Herzog was honoured at the 49th San Francisco International Film Festival, receiving the 2006 Film Society Directing Award. In 1990, Wodaabe – Herdsmen of the Sun, Lessons of Darkness, 1993, and The Wild Blue Yonder were all shown at the San Francisco International Film Festival.

The Alfred P. Sloan Prize, directed by Herzog, was given the Albert P. Sloan Award at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. When on Skyline Drive in Los Angeles in 2006, Herzog was shot in the abdomen. To Mark Kermode of the BBC, he had been giving an interview on Grizzly Man. Herzog continued the interview without seeking medical attention, saying, "it is not important." The gunman later discovered himself to be a crazed fan with an air rifle. "I seem to attract the clinically insane," Herzog later reported of the incident. Presenter Dallas Campbell, who was friends with the film's producer and that the incident was "set up" in a 2021 episode of Diminishing Returns podcast, covering Herzog's film Stroszek. After a car accident, two days later, Herzog helped actor Joaquin Phoenix recover from his car.

Herzog's appearance at the Ebertfest in Champaign, Illinois, earned him the Golden Thumb Award in addition to an engraved glockenspiel based on his films. Encounters at the End of the World received the Best Documentary award at the 2008 Edinburgh International Film Festival, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Film, Herzog's first nomination. Herzog was the first filmmaker to have two films compete in the Venice Film Festival in the same year in 2009. Herzog's Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans was called into the festival's official competition schedule, and his My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? As a "surprise film," the winner was entered in the competition. Herzog also provided the narration for Ramin Bahrani's short film Plastic Bag, which was also the first night film in the festival's Corto Cortissimo segment.

Herzog founded Rogue Film School in 2009, dissatisfied with the way film schools are run. "I like people who have served as bouncers in a sex club or were wardens in the lunatic asylum," Herzog said of the refugees. To live life in its very basic forms, you must go back to childhood. Pura vida is a Costa Rican word for it: pura vida. It doesn't mean only purity of life, but also the naught, sharp, vivid quality of life. And that's what makes young people more into film than academia.

At the 60th Berlin International Film Festival in 2010, Herzog was the president of the jury.

In 2010, Herzog completed a documentary titled Cave of Forgotten Dreams, which chronicles his climb into the Chauvet Cave in France. Although generally skeptical of 3D film as a medium, Herzog premiered the film at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival in 3-D and had the film premiere in Berlin, Austria. Herzog co-directed One Year in the Taiga, which depicts the lives of fur trappers from the Siberian part of the Taiga, in 2010, and had its premiere at the 2010 Telluride Film Festival.

Herzog has narrated several of his documentary films, and he lent his voice to an animated television show for the first time in 2010 in The Boondocks' third-season premiere episode It's a Black President. He appeared in the episode as a fictionalized version of himself filming a film about the series' cast of characters and their lives during Barack Obama's 2008 election.

Herzog played Walter Hotenhoffer (formerly known as Augustus Gloop) in the Simpsons' "The Scorpion's Tale" (which aired in March 2011. He appeared in the 8th-season episode of American Dad this year. During the 4th season of the Adult Swim animated series Metalocalypse, he called "Ricky Spanish" and lent his voice to a recurring character. Rick and Morty's Rick and Morty was a voice in 2015. In the 2012 action film Jack Reacher, he appeared alongside Tom Cruise as the villain Zec Chelovek.

Herzog gained fame in 2013 when he unveiled From One Second to the Next, a 35-minute Public Service Announcement film highlighting the danger of texting while driving and financed by AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, and T-Mobile as part of their It Can Wait driver safety campaign. The film, which portrays four stories in which texting and driving led to tragedy or death, attracted over 1.7 million YouTube views and was later released to over 40,000 high schools. Herzog contributed to a Whitney Biennial art installation titled "Hearsay of the Soul," which was later purchased as a permanent exhibit at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. In late 2013, he contributed to Hayao Miyazaki's The Wind Rises' English-language dub.

Herzog entered Ridley Scott in 2011 to produce a film based on the life of explorer Gertrude Bell. Herzog will start production on his long-in-development project in Morocco in March 2013 with Naomi Watts and Robert Pattinson to play Henry Cadogan. Nicole Kidman as Gertrude Bell, James Franco as Henry Cadogan, Damian Lewis as Charles Doughty-Wylie, and Robert Pattinson as T. E. Lawrence, both 22 years old archaeologist T. E. Lawrence were all cast members of the film in 2014. At the 2015 Berlin International Film Festival, Queen of the Desert premiered.

Herzog shot Salt and Fire in Bolivia, starring Veronica Ferres, Michael Shannon, and Gael Garc a Bernal. It's described as a "highly flammable drama based on Tom Bissell's short story."

Herzog appeared on "The Client," a character with nebulous links to the Empire, in the Disney+ live action series The Mandalorian. Despite admitting to having never seen a Star Wars movie, Herzog accepted the role after being impressed with the screenplay.

Herzog's debut novel, titled The Twilight World, told the tale of Hiroo Onoda in June 2022. Herzog had met Onoda in Tokyo more than two decades ago and the two had discussed the jungle, a setting that has resurfaced in several of Herzog's films. Onoda, a WWII Japanese soldier who was sent in 1944 to Lubang, a tiny Philippine island, remained in the jungles of Lubang for twenty-nine years. After being given orders to "hold his position," his commander hoped that someone would return for him, but as the years went by, it was clear that he had been forgotten. Although the book was intended to be a fictionalization of Hiroo Onoda's true life ordeal of being trapped in a jungle fighting a war that had officially ended, Herzog admits to twisting the truth, saying, "Most details are factually correct; some are not."

Personal life

Herzog has been married three times and has three children. He married Martje Grohmann, with whom he had a son, Rudolph Amos Achmed, who was born in 1973. In 1985, they were divorced. Hanna Mattes, a photographer and painter, was born in 1980 to his then-companion Eva Mattes. He married Christine Maria Ebenberger and their son, Simon Herzog, in 1989. In 1997, the two couples divorced. Herzog moved to the United States in 1996 and subsequently married photographer Lena Herzog, formerly Elena Pisetski, in 1999.

Herzog is an avid reader, and the following books are included in required reading for the Rogue Film School: J. The Peregrine, Georgics of Virgil, and Ernest Hemingway's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" by A. Baker. The Poetic Edda translation by Lee M. Hollander, Bernal Diaz de Castillo's The Conquest of New Spain and the Warren Commission Report are among the recommended readings.

Some people regard Herzog as an atheist. He speaks German, Spanish, French, and Greek in addition to his native German. He also reads Latin and Ancient Greek.

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