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 Director. Writer. Producer. Actor. Poet. He studied history, literature and theatre for some time, but didn't finish it and founded instead his own film production company in 1963. Later in his life, Herzog also staged several operas in Bayreuth, Germany, and at the Milan Scala in Italy. Herzog has won numerous national and international awards for his poetic feature and documentary films.
Bio:
Director. Writer. Producer. Actor. Poet. He studied history, literature and theatre for some time, but didn't finish it and founded instead his own film production company in 1963. Later in his life, Herzog also staged several operas in Bayreuth, Germany, and at the Milan Scala in Italy. Herzog has won numerous national and international awards for his poetic feature and documentary films.
Tivia:
Joaquin Phoenix was in a car accident on a winding canyon road where his vehicle flipped over. Shaken and confused, he heard a tapping on his window and a voice said, "Just relax." Unable to see the man, Phoenix replied, "I'm fine. I am relaxed." When he managed to see the man, he realized it was Werner Herzog, who then replied, "No, you're not." After helping Phoenix out of the wreckage, Herzog phoned for an ambulance, then vanished.In late 2005, during an interview with BBC film critic Mark Kermode regarding Grizzly Man (2005), a sniper opened fire on them with an air rifle. Kermode panicked when Herzog calmly said, "Someone is shooting at us." One of the pellets then hit Herzog. An unmoved Herzog said that the bullet was 'not a significant one' and insisted on continuing the interview.Herzog once promised to eat his shoe if a young American film student went out and actually made the film he was always only talking about. The young student was Errol Morris, who met the challenge with his off-beat 1978 pet cemetery documentary Gates of Heaven (1978) (and went on to make The Thin Blue Line (1988) and Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (1997)). Herzog makes good on his promise in the film Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980), directed by Les Blank.The only feature film director to have made a film on every continent.Claimed to have walked by foot from Munich, Germany to Paris, France (a distance of about 500 miles) in 1974 to prevent the very sick film historian and good friend, Lotte Eisner, from dying (as, applying his logic, she wouldn't dare to die until he visited her on her deathbed). Eisner, indeed, went on to live for 8 more years after Herzog's journey.Was scheduled to fly on the same ill-fated plane as fellow German teenager Juliane Koepcke in 1971, but was bumped from the flight at the last minute. On Christmas Eve, the plane crashed in the Amazon jungle, and 17-year-old Juliane was the only survivor, after enduring 11 days alone. Her tale was told in 1974's Miracles Still Happen (1974).When he was thirteen years old, he and his family lived in an apartment in Munich that they shared with several other people. One of them was the actor Klaus Kinski.Herzog is admired for being the only director who was able to work with the late and very eccentric Klaus Kinski.He was invited to receive an honorary doctorate from Cambridge. He refused it, however, believing he was not the type of man to achieve this level of respectability.He considers Nosferatu (1922) to be the greatest German film ever made. He directed the remake Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979).In 1961, he worked nights in a steel factory to raise money for his films. In 1966, he was employed by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).Claimed that when he was a few days old, he was nearly killed after Allied bombs caused a skylight in his nursery to shatter. The shards fell around his cot but somehow did not injure him.Fran?ois Truffaut once called him 'the most important film director alive.'.According to film critic Roger Ebert, 'even his failures are spectacular.'.His documentary entitled From One Second to the Next (2013), which explores the consequences of texting while driving, had its premiere August 8, 2013 in Los Angeles. It was sponsored by several major mobile phone companies.Never uses storyboards.Writes his screenplays in 4-5 days.Frequently directs operas on stage, but never on film, and finds the two forms fundamentally incompatible.Despite a history of difficult film productions, he is proud of the fact that his films have never gone over budget.When he first took an IQ test as a young boy, he scored 124. He re-took the test years later and scored an average 101.He shot his first films with a camera he stole from the Munich Film School.Herzog claims in a 2006 Bloomberg interview that he had the chance to direct both Brokeback Mountain (2005) and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975).Said in DVD commentary for Incident at Loch Ness (2004) that his first book was a Marshal- Plan copy of "Winnie the Pooh", and it remains one of his favorites.Has a school of guerrilla filmmaking called 'Rogue Film School.'.At the start of each shooting day he tallies up the money every part of the production is spending, and puts a stop to anyone who's using too much.Claims to have been 17 years old before he made his first first phone call.He admitted that he never watched a Star Wars film before, and that he took the role of The Client in The Mandalorian (2019) mainly for financial reasons. However, during production, he became fascinated of the show's world building and the practical effects, which he described as "cinema at its best".Mother, Elisabeth, and father, Dietrich, were biologists.Has shot 5 of his films in Peru: Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), Fitzcarraldo (1982), My Best Fiend (1999), Julianes Sturz in den Dschungel (1999) and parts of My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009).He spent grew up in a remote mountain village and didn't know about films until the age of eleven and assumed they were real upon being introduced to them.In 1968, Signs of Life (1968) won the German Film Prize and a Silver Bear as Best Debut Film at the Berlinale. The following year, Herzog organized a free alternative to the Berlinale in Wedding, a working-class district of Berlin, showing festival films at no charge for people who wouldn't ordinarily encounter independent and off-beat movies such as his own.Was voted the 35th Greatest Director of all time by Entertainment Weekly.He didn't attend film school.Herzog received a lifetime achievement award, the Pardo d'onore, from the Locarno International Film Festival in August 2013, only four months after being similarly honored for his lifetime achievement in cinema by the German Film Academy in April 2013.Doesn't use and dislikes the use of storyboards.Was romantically linked to Eva Mattes. They have a daughter together, Hanna Mattes.Has three children from three women: Rudolph Herzog (born in 1973), Hanna Mattes (born in 1980), and Simon Herzog (born in 1989).Lives in Los Angeles.Klaus Kinski asked him to direct Paganini (1989), but he declined. It turned out to be Kinski's final film.Studied at the University of Munich and later earned a scholarship to Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, but dropped out after only a few days.Brother of Lucki Stipetic.Has a sister, Sigrid, and two brothers, Tilbert and producer Lucki Stipetic.Invited to join AMPAS in 2006Admits to being fascinated by professional wrestling.New York City: Eight of Herzog's early films were screened in tribute to his work, at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, from Aug. 16-22. (July 2013)Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume Two, 1945- 1985". Pages 422-429. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1988. |
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Werner Herzog |
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Director,Writer,Actor (IMDB) |
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Director. Writer. Producer. Actor. Poet. He studied history, literature and theatre for some time, but didn\'t finish it and founded instead his own film production company in 1963. Later in his life, Herzog also staged several operas in Bayreuth, Ge |
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Joaquin Phoenix was in a car accident on a winding canyon road where his vehicle flipped over. Shaken and confused, he heard a tapping on his window and a voice said, "Just relax." Unable to see the man, Phoenix replied, "I'm fine. I am relaxed." When he managed to see the man, he realized it was Werner Herzog, who then replied, "No, you're not." After helping Phoenix out of the wreckage, Herzog phoned for an ambulance, then vanished.In late 2005, during an interview with BBC film critic Mark Kermode regarding Grizzly Man (2005), a sniper opened fire on them with an air rifle. Kermode panicked when Herzog calmly said, "Someone is shooting at us." One of the pellets then hit Herzog. An unmoved Herzog said that the bullet was 'not a significant one' and insisted on continuing the interview.Herzog once promised to eat his shoe if a young American film student went out and actually made the film he was always only talking about. The young student was Errol Morris, who met the challenge with his off-beat 1978 pet cemetery documentary Gates of Heaven (1978) (and went on to make The Thin Blue Line (1988) and Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (1997)). Herzog makes good on his promise in the film Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980), directed by Les Blank.The only feature film director to have made a film on every continent.Claimed to have walked by foot from Munich, Germany to Paris, France (a distance of about 500 miles) in 1974 to prevent the very sick film historian and good friend, Lotte Eisner, from dying (as, applying his logic, she wouldn't dare to die until he visited her on her deathbed). Eisner, indeed, went on to live for 8 more years after Herzog's journey.Was scheduled to fly on the same ill-fated plane as fellow German teenager Juliane Koepcke in 1971, but was bumped from the flight at the last minute. On Christmas Eve, the plane crashed in the Amazon jungle, and 17-year-old Juliane was the only survivor, after enduring 11 days alone. Her tale was told in 1974's Miracles Still Happen (1974).When he was thirteen years old, he and his family lived in an apartment in Munich that they shared with several other people. One of them was the actor Klaus Kinski.Herzog is admired for being the only director who was able to work with the late and very eccentric Klaus Kinski.He was invited to receive an honorary doctorate from Cambridge. He refused it, however, believing he was not the type of man to achieve this level of respectability.He considers Nosferatu (1922) to be the greatest German film ever made. He directed the remake Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979).In 1961, he worked nights in a steel factory to raise money for his films. In 1966, he was employed by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).Claimed that when he was a few days old, he was nearly killed after Allied bombs caused a skylight in his nursery to shatter. The shards fell around his cot but somehow did not injure him.Fran?ois Truffaut once called him 'the most important film director alive.'.According to film critic Roger Ebert, 'even his failures are spectacular.'.His documentary entitled From One Second to the Next (2013), which explores the consequences of texting while driving, had its premiere August 8, 2013 in Los Angeles. It was sponsored by several major mobile phone companies.Never uses storyboards.Writes his screenplays in 4-5 days.Frequently directs operas on stage, but never on film, and finds the two forms fundamentally incompatible.Despite a history of difficult film productions, he is proud of the fact that his films have never gone over budget.When he first took an IQ test as a young boy, he scored 124. He re-took the test years later and scored an average 101.He shot his first films with a camera he stole from the Munich Film School.Herzog claims in a 2006 Bloomberg interview that he had the chance to direct both Brokeback Mountain (2005) and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975).Said in DVD commentary for Incident at Loch Ness (2004) that his first book was a Marshal- Plan copy of "Winnie the Pooh", and it remains one of his favorites.Has a school of guerrilla filmmaking called 'Rogue Film School.'.At the start of each shooting day he tallies up the money every part of the production is spending, and puts a stop to anyone who's using too much.Claims to have been 17 years old before he made his first first phone call.He admitted that he never watched a Star Wars film before, and that he took the role of The Client in The Mandalorian (2019) mainly for financial reasons. However, during production, he became fascinated of the show's world building and the practical effects, which he described as "cinema at its best".Mother, Elisabeth, and father, Dietrich, were biologists.Has shot 5 of his films in Peru: Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), Fitzcarraldo (1982), My Best Fiend (1999), Julianes Sturz in den Dschungel (1999) and parts of My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009).He spent grew up in a remote mountain village and didn't know about films until the age of eleven and assumed they were real upon being introduced to them.In 1968, Signs of Life (1968) won the German Film Prize and a Silver Bear as Best Debut Film at the Berlinale. The following year, Herzog organized a free alternative to the Berlinale in Wedding, a working-class district of Berlin, showing festival films at no charge for people who wouldn't ordinarily encounter independent and off-beat movies such as his own.Was voted the 35th Greatest Director of all time by Entertainment Weekly.He didn't attend film school.Herzog received a lifetime achievement award, the Pardo d'onore, from the Locarno International Film Festival in August 2013, only four months after being similarly honored for his lifetime achievement in cinema by the German Film Academy in April 2013.Doesn't use and dislikes the use of storyboards.Was romantically linked to Eva Mattes. They have a daughter together, Hanna Mattes.Has three children from three women: Rudolph Herzog (born in 1973), Hanna Mattes (born in 1980), and Simon Herzog (born in 1989).Lives in Los Angeles.Klaus Kinski asked him to direct Paganini (1989), but he declined. It turned out to be Kinski's final film.Studied at the University of Munich and later earned a scholarship to Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, but dropped out after only a few days.Brother of Lucki Stipetic.Has a sister, Sigrid, and two brothers, Tilbert and producer Lucki Stipetic.Invited to join AMPAS in 2006Admits to being fascinated by professional wrestling.New York City: Eight of Herzog's early films were screened in tribute to his work, at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, from Aug. 16-22. (July 2013)Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume Two, 1945- 1985". Pages 422-429. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1988. |
| Trademarks: |
His films contain animals doing unusual things
His films contain long, extended landscape shots
Frequently worked with Klaus Kinski
Screeching cellos and violins in musical scores
Driven protagonists who often seem to be on the brink of madness |
| Quotes: |
TV uses landscapes. I transform landscapes - I direct landscapes.
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[on the ending of Stroszek (1977)] When I saw the dancing chicken, I knew I would create a grand metaphor - for what, I don't know.
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[on working with Klaus Kinski] I had to domesticate the wild beast.
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Perhaps I seek certain utopian things, space for human honour and respect, landscapes not yet offended, planets that do not exist yet, dreamed landscapes. Very few people seek these images today.
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So, you have to be daring to do things like this, because the world is not easily accepting of filmmaking. There will always be some sort of an obstacle, and the worst of all obstacles is the spirit of bureaucracy. You have to find your way to battle bureaucracy. You have to outsmart it, to outgut it, to outnumber it, to outfilm them - that's what you have to do. |
| Job title: |
Director,Writer,Actor |
| Others works: |
Vom Gehen Im Eis (Of Walking in Ice) - journal/book
(2022) Book: "The Twilight World". London: The Bodley Head. ISBN 1847927238 |
| Spouse: |
Lena Herzog (1999 - present) Christine Ebenberger (August 19, 1987 - 1997) (divorced, 1 child)Martje Grohmann (1967 - 1985) (divorced, 1 child) |
| Children: |
Rudolph HerzogHanna MattesSimon Herzog |
| Parents: |
Dietrich Herzog
Elizabeth Stipetic |
| Relatives: |
Sigrid Stipetic (Sibling)
Tilbert Stipetic (Sibling)
Lucki Stipetic (Sibling) |
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