Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog | |
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Born | Werner Stipetić 5 September 1942 |
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Years active | 1961–present |
Spouses | Martje Grohmann
(m. 1967; div. 1985)Christine Maria Ebenberger
(m. 1987; div. 1997) |
Children | 3 |
Relatives | Lucki Stipetić (half-brother) |
Website | WernerHerzog.com |
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Werner Herzog (German: [ˈvɛʁnɐ ˈhɛʁtsoːk]; né Stipetić; born 5 September 1942) is a German filmmaker, actor, opera director, and author. Regarded as a pioneer of New German Cinema, his films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams,[1] people with unusual talents in obscure fields, or individuals in conflict with nature.[2] His style involves avoiding storyboards, emphasizing improvisation, and placing his cast and crew into real situations mirroring those in the film they are working on.
In 1961, when Herzog was 19, he started work on his first film
French filmmaker François Truffaut once called Herzog "the most important film director alive".[3] American film critic Roger Ebert said that Herzog "has never created a single film that is compromised, shameful, made for pragmatic reasons, or uninteresting. Even his failures are spectacular".[4] He was named one of the world's 100 most influential people by Time in 2009.[5]
Life
Early life
Herzog was born Werner Stipetić[6] in Munich, Germany on 5 September 1942, the son of Elisabeth Stipetić and Dietrich Herzog. His mother was Austrian with Croatian ancestry, while his father was German. When he was two weeks old, his mother took refuge in the remote Bavarian village of Sachrang in the Chiemgau Alps, after the house next to theirs was destroyed during an Allied bombing raid in World War II.[7] He, his older brother Till and younger half-brother Lucki grew up without running water, a flushing toilet, or a telephone. He recounted that his family had "no toys" and "no tools" and said that there was a sense of anarchy, as all the fathers of the village's children were absent.[8] He never saw films, and did not even know cinema existed until a traveling projectionist came by the one-room schoolhouse in Sachrang.[9]
When Herzog was 12, he and his family moved back to Munich. His father had abandoned the family early in his youth, but he later adopted his father's surname (which is
At an early age, he experienced a dramatic phase in which he converted to Catholicism, which only lasted a few years. He started to embark on long journeys, some on foot. Around this time, he knew he would be a filmmaker and learned the basics from a few pages in an encyclopedia which provided him with "everything I needed to get myself started" as a filmmaker—that, and the 35 mm camera he stole from the Munich Film School.[12] In the commentary for Aguirre, the Wrath of God, he says, "I don't consider it theft. It was just a necessity. I had some sort of natural right for a camera, a tool to work with".
During Herzog's last years of high school, no production company was willing to take on his projects, so he worked night shifts as a welder in a steel factory to earn the funds for his first featurettes.[13] When he finished school, but before he formally graduated, he followed his girlfriend to Manchester, England, where he spent several months and learned to speak English. He found the language classes pointless and "fled".[14][15] After graduating from high school, he was intrigued by the post-independence Congo, but in attempting to travel there, reached only the south of Sudan before falling seriously ill.[16] While already making films, he had a brief stint at the University of Munich, where he studied history and literature.[17] Herzog subsequently moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in order to study at Duquesne University.[18]
Early and mid-career: 1962–2005
Herzog, along with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Wim Wenders and Volker Schlöndorff, led the beginning of the New German Cinema, which included documentarians who filmed on low budgets and were influenced by the French New Wave. He developed a habit of casting professional actors alongside people from the locality in which he was shooting. His films, "usually set in distinct and unfamiliar landscapes, are imbued with mysticism."[19] Herzog says his youthful experience with Catholicism is evident in "something of a religious echo in my work".[20]
In 1971, while Herzog was
Herzog and his films have been nominated for and won many awards. His first major award was the
Herzog once promised to eat his shoe if Errol Morris completed a film project on pet cemeteries that he had been working on, in order to challenge and motivate Morris as he perceived Morris to be incapable of following up on the projects he conceived. In 1978, when the film Gates of Heaven premiered, Herzog cooked and publicly ate his shoe; the event was later incorporated into a short documentary, Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe, by Les Blank. Herzog suggested that he hoped the act would serve to encourage anyone having difficulty bringing a project to fruition.[23]
In the winter of 1974, German-French writer Lotte H. Eisner (a friend and mentor of Herzog since the late 1950s) fell gravely ill; Herzog walked from Munich to Paris, believing that she would not die if he did so.[24] During these travels, which took him three weeks, he kept a diary that would eventually be published as Of Walking in Ice. Eight years later, the 87-year-old Eisner allegedly complained to Herzog of her infirmities and told him, "I am saturated with life. There is still this spell upon me that I must not die—can you lift it?" He says that he agreed to do so, and she died eight days later.[25]
Werner Herzog moved to Los Angeles with his wife in the late 1990s. He said of the city, "Wherever you look is an immense depth, a tumult that resonates with me. New York is more concerned with finance than anything else. It doesn't create culture, only consumes it; most of what you find in New York comes from elsewhere. Things actually get done in Los Angeles. Look beyond the glitz and glamour of Hollywood and a wild excitement of intense dreams opens up; it has more horizons than any other place. There is a great deal of industry in the city and a real working class; I also appreciate the vibrant presence of the Mexicans."[26]
Later career: 2006 onwards
Herzog was honored at the 49th San Francisco International Film Festival, receiving the 2006 Film Society Directing Award.[27] Four of his films have been shown at the San Francisco International Film Festival: Wodaabe – Herdsmen of the Sun in 1990, Bells from the Deep in 1993, Lessons of Darkness in 1993, and The Wild Blue Yonder in 2006.
Herzog's April 2007 appearance at the
Dissatisfied with the way film schools are run, Herzog founded his own Rogue Film School in 2009.[37] For the students, Herzog has said, "I prefer people who have worked as bouncers in a sex club, or have been wardens in the lunatic asylum. You must live life in its very elementary forms. The Costa Ricans have a very nice word for it: pura vida. It doesn't mean just purity of life, but the raw, stark-naked quality of life. And that's what makes young people more into a filmmaker than academia."[38] Notable alumni include Keirda Bahruth, Nir Sa'ar, Bob Baldori, Sean Gill, Frederick Kroetsch, and George Hickenlooper.[39]
Herzog was the president of the jury at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival in 2010.[40][41][42]
Herzog completed a documentary called Cave of Forgotten Dreams in 2010, which shows his journey into the Chauvet Cave in France. Although generally skeptical of 3D film as a format,[43] Herzog premiered the film at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival in 3-D and had its European premiere at the 2011 Berlinale. Also in 2010, Herzog co-directed with Dimitry Vasuykov Happy People: A Year in the Taiga, which portrays the life of fur trappers from the Siberian part of the Taiga, and had its premiere at the 2010 Telluride Film Festival.[44]
Herzog has narrated many of his documentary films, and he lent his voice to an animated television program for the first time in 2010, appearing in
Continuing with voice work, Herzog played Walter Hotenhoffer (formerly known as
Herzog gained attention in 2013 when he released a 35-minute
In 2011, Herzog competed with Ridley Scott to make a film based around the life of explorer Gertrude Bell.[48] In 2012, it was confirmed that Herzog would start production on his long-in-development project in March 2013 in Morocco with Naomi Watts to play Gertrude Bell along with Robert Pattinson to play T. E. Lawrence and Jude Law to play Henry Cadogan.[49] The film was completed in 2014 with a different cast: Nicole Kidman as Gertrude Bell, James Franco as Henry Cadogan, Damian Lewis as Charles Doughty-Wylie, and Robert Pattinson as a 22-year-old archaeologist T. E. Lawrence. Queen of the Desert had its world premiere at the 2015 Berlin International Film Festival.[50]
In 2015, Herzog shot a feature film, Salt and Fire, in Bolivia, starring Veronica Ferres, Michael Shannon and Gael García Bernal. It is described as a "highly explosive drama inspired by a short story by Tom Bissell".[51]
In 2019, Herzog joined the cast of the Disney+ live action Star Wars television series The Mandalorian, portraying "The Client", a character with nebulous connections to the Empire.[52] Herzog accepted the role after being impressed with the screenplay,[53] despite admitting that he had never seen a Star Wars film.[54]
In June 2022, Herzog published his debut novel, titled The Twilight World, telling the story of Hiroo Onoda. Herzog had met Onoda in Tokyo more than two decades ago, and the two had discussed the jungle, a setting that reoccurs throughout many of Herzog's film works. Onoda, a WWII Japanese soldier who was deployed in 1944 to Lubang, a small Philippine Island, stayed in the jungles of Lubang for twenty nine years. After receiving orders to "hold his position", his commander promised that someone would return for him, but as the years went by, it was clear that he was forgotten. While the novel was written as a fictionalized account of Hiroo Onoda's real life ordeal of being stranded in a jungle fighting a war that had officially ended, Herzog admits to bending the truth, saying "Most details are factually correct; some are not".[55][56][57]
Film theory
Style
Herzog's films have received considerable critical acclaim and achieved popularity on the
Herzog has said that our civilization is "starving for new images"; in a 1982 interview with Roger Ebert, he explained that "We do not have adequate images for our kind of civilization...We are surrounded by images that are worn out, and I believe that unless we discover new images, we will die out." He has said it is his mission to help us discover new images: "I am trying to make something that has not been made before."[59] He is proud of never using storyboards and often improvising large parts of the script. He explains this technique in the commentary track to Aguirre, the Wrath of God.
In 1999, before a public dialogue with critic Roger Ebert at the Walker Art Center, Herzog read a new manifesto, which he dubbed Minnesota Declaration: Truth and Fact in Documentary Cinema.[60] Subtitled "Lessons of Darkness", after his film of that name, the 12-point declaration began: "Cinema Verité is devoid of verité. It reaches a merely superficial truth, the truth of accountants." Herzog explained that "There are deeper strata of truth in cinema, and there is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and elusive, and can be reached only through fabrication and imagination and stylization" and that "facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable."[61] Ebert later wrote of its significance: "For the first time, it fully explained his theory of 'ecstatic truth.'"[62] In 2017, Herzog wrote a six-point addendum to the manifesto,[63] prompted by a question about "truth in an age of alt-facts".[64]
His treatment of subjects has been characterized as
Teaching
Critical of film schools,[66] Herzog has taught three cinema workshops. From 2009 to 2016, he organized the Rogue Film School, in which young directors spent a few days with him in evocative locations.[67] What exactly goes on at the rogue film school has been clouded in secrecy, but director and writer Kristoffer Hegnsvad report from his stay there in his book Werner Herzog – Ecstatic Truth and Other Useless Conquests: "The first thing you notice is his enormous presence. His self-confidence sends shockwaves through a room every time he opens his mouth or make eye contact; he adopts a stance of exalted calm, as though he has achieved some kind of mastery – not just over his own mind, but over the capriciousness of the world" ".[68] Lessons ranged from "How does music function in film?" to "The creation of your own shooting permits".
In 2018, he held "Filming in Peru with Werner Herzog", a twelve-day workshop in the Amazonian rainforest, close to the locations for Fitzcarraldo, for new filmmakers from around the world. Each made a short film under Herzog's supervision.[69] Herzog was enthusiastic, and said of the resulting films that "the best 10 of them are better than the selections for best short film at the Academy Awards".[70] Workshop participants included directors Rupert Clague and Quentin Lazzarotto. Herzog is also on the website MasterClass, where he presents a course on filmmaking, entitled "Werner Herzog teaches filmmaking".[71][72][73] In a discussion with Errol Morris at the Toronto Film Festival, Morris, who was influenced by Herzog's early films, joked that he considered himself one of the first students of the Rogue Film School. Regarding Herzog's influence on him, Morris quoted Gabriel García Márquez's reaction to reading Kafka for the first time: "I didn't know you were allowed to do that."[74]
Personal life
Herzog has been married three times and has three children. In 1967, he married Martje Grohmann and they had a son named Rudolph Amos Achmed (born 1973).[75] They divorced in 1985.[76] He later began dating Austrian-German actress Eva Mattes, and they had a daughter named Hanna Mattes (born 1980) before splitting up.[77] He married Christine Maria Ebenberger in 1987,[78] and they had a son named Simon (born 1989).[79] They divorced in 1997.[80] Herzog moved to Los Angeles in 1996 and married Russian-American photographer Elena Pisetski in 1999.[81]
Herzog is a voracious reader. As required reading for the Rogue Film School, he has listed J. A. Baker's The Peregrine, Virgil's Georgics, and Ernest Hemingway's The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber. Suggested reading includes the Poetic Edda as translated from Old Norse by Lee M. Hollander, Bernal Díaz del Castillo's Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España (The True History of the Conquest of New Spain), and the 888-page report published by the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy.[82]
Herzog has been described as an avowed
Filmography
Since 1962, Herzog directed 20 fiction feature films, seven fiction short films, and 34 documentary feature films, as well as eight documentary short films and episodes of two television series. He has also been the screenwriter or co-writer for all his films and for four others, and has appeared as an actor in 26 film or television productions.
Stage works
Opera
Source, Homepage.[85]
- Doktor Faust (1986, Teatro Comunale di Bologna)
- Lohengrin (1987, Bayreuth Festival)[86]
- Giovanna d'Arco (1989, Teatro Comunale di Bologna)
- The Magic Flute (1991, Teatro Massimo Bellini, Catania)
- La donna del lago (1992, Teatro alla Scala, Milan)
- Der fliegende Holländer (1993, Opéra Bastille)
- Norma (1994, Verona Arena)
- Il Guarany (1994, Theater Bonn)
- Il Guarany (1996, Washington National Opera)
- Tannhäuser (1997 Opéra Royal de Wallonie; Liège)
- Sevilla)
- Chūshingura (1997, Tokyo Opera)
- Tannhäuser (1998 Teatro Massimo; Palermo)
- Tannhäuser (1998 Teatro di San Carlo; Naples)
- Fidelio (1999, La Scala, Milan)
- Tannhäuser (1999 Teatro Real; Madrid)
- The Magic Flute (1999, Teatro Massimo Bellini, Catania)
- Tannhäuser (1999 Teatro Real; Madrid)
- Tannhäuser (2000 Baltimore Opera Company; Baltimore)
- The Magic Flute (2001, Baltimore Opera Company, Baltimore)
- Tannhäuser (2001 Houston Grand Opera; Houston)
- Tannhäuser (2001 Theatro Municipal (Rio de Janeiro); Rio de Janeiro)
- Giovanna d'Arco (2001, Teatro Carlo Felice, Genoa)
- Der fliegende Holländer (2002, DomStufen Festspiele Erfurt)
- Fidelio (2003, La Scala, Milan)
- Valencia)[87]
- I due Foscari (2013, Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Rome)
Theatre
- Varété (1992, Hebbel-Theater, Berlin)
- Floresta Amazonica (A Midsummer Night's Dream) (1992, Teatro João Caetano, Rio de Janeiro)
- Specialitaeten (1993, Etablissement Ronacher, Vienna)
Concerts
- The Killers: Unstaged (2012, Paradise Theater, New York City)
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Further reading
Primary literature
- Werner Herzog. A Guide for the Perplexed: Conversations with Paul Cronin. London: Faber & Faber, 2014. ISBN 978-0-571-25977-9.
- Herzog, Werner; Cronin, Paul (2002). Herzog on Herzog. New York: Faber and Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-20708-4.
- Eric Ames, ed. Werner Herzog: Interviews. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2014. ISBN 978-1-61703-969-0.
- Werner Herzog. ISBN 978-0-59349-029-7.
Secondary literature
- Emmanuel Carrère. Werner Herzog. Paris: Ediling, 1982. ISBN 2-85601-017-2
- Brad Prager. The Cinema of Werner Herzog: Aesthetic Ecstasy and Truth. New York: Wallflower Press, 2007. ISBN 978-1-905674-18-3.
- Eric Ames. Ferocious Reality. Documentary according to Werner Herzog. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
- Moritz Holfelder. Werner Herzog. Die Biografie. Munich: LangenMüller, 2012. ISBN 978-3-7844-3303-5.
- Brad Prager, ed. A Companion to Werner Herzog. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. ISBN 978-1-405-19440-2.
- Richard Eldridge. Werner Herzog—Filmmaker and Philosopher. London: Bloomsbury, 2019. ISBN 978-1-350-10015-2.
- Kristoffer Hegnsvad. Werner Herzog – Ecstatic Truth and Other Useless Conquests, London 2021. ISBN 978-1-789-14410-9.
External links
- Official website
- Werner Herzog at Curlie
- Werner Herzog at IMDb
- Encounters with Herzog – a film competition. Judged by Herzog on the independent filmmakers networking community Shooting People. Archived 21 January 2015 at the Wayback Machine Judged on Sunday 27 September 2009