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Werner Herzog

Also known as Werner Herzog Stipetić, Werner Stipetić

German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and opera director (born 1942)

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Werner Herzog is a German filmmaker and artist born in 1942 who has worked as a director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and opera director across multiple decades. He is a significant figure in cinema known for his distinctive approach to filmmaking across these varied creative roles.

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Person · Open Library

Works: 25

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Tim Walker. Cuentos de hadas
Conquest of the Useless
Future of Truth
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Mystik und Lyrik bei Novalis

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Berlin
Active from: 1985

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Discography

Official site Discogs Stream

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Total plays: 53,876

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Quotes

“You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.”
“Well they are very frightening for me because their stupidity is so flat. You look into the eyes of a chicken and you lose yourself in a completely flat, frightening stupidity. They are like a great metaphor for me... I kind of love chicken, but they frighten me more than any other animal.”
“I am so used to plunging into the unknown that any other surroundings and form of existence strike me as exotic and unsuitable for human beings.”
“I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.”
“James Joyce is a cul-de-sac. [Ulysses is] … an example how literature branched out and went into, lost itself in nowhere, no man's land.”
“There are dignified stupidities, and there are heroic stupidities, and there is such a thing as stupid stupidities, and that would be a stupid stupidity not to have a camera on board.”

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Official website: www.wernerherzog.com
Image: Werner Herzog Berlin 2015.jpg

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Commons category: Werner Herzog
date of birth: 1942-09-05
Commons gallery: Werner Herzog
name in native language: Werner Herzog
start of work period: 1962-00-00
birth name: Werner Herzog Stipetić
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Werner Herzog ( German: [ˈvɛʁnɐ ˈhɛʁtsoːk]; né Stipetić; born 5 September 1942) is a German filmmaker, actor, opera director, author and documentarian. Regarded as a pioneer of New German Cinema, his films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams, people with unusual talents in obscure fields, or individuals in conflict with nature. His film-making process involves avoiding storyboards, emphasizing improvisation, and placing his cast and crew into real situations mirroring those in the film on which they are working. He has received numerous accolades including a Silver Bear Award and four Awards at the Cannes Film Festival in addition to a nomination for an Academy Award.

In 1961, when Herzog was 19, he started work on his first film, Herakles. He is known for his collaborations with the actor Klaus Kinski, whom he directed in the films Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), Nosferatu the Vampyre, Woyzeck (both 1979), Fitzcarraldo (1982) and Cobra Verde (1987) and chronicled their tumultuous relationship in the documentary film My Best Fiend (1999). Other films he has directed include The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974), Heart of Glass (1976), Stroszek (1977), Invincible (2001), and Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) as well as the documentary films Lessons of Darkness (1992), Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997), Grizzly Man (2005), Encounters at the End of the World (2007), Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010), and Into the Abyss (2011).