Biography
Werner Herzog (German: [ˈvɛɐ̯nɐ ˈhɛɐ̯tsoːk]; born 5 September 1942) is a German film director, screenwriter, author, actor, and opera director, regarded as a pioneer of New German Cinema. His films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams, people with unique talents in obscure fields, or individuals in conflict with nature. He is known for his unique filmmaking process, such as disregarding storyboards, emphasizing improvisation, and placing the cast and crew into similar situations as characters in his films.
Herzog started work on his first film Herakles in 1961, when he was nineteen. Since then he has produced, written, and directed more than sixty feature films and documentaries, such as Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974), Heart of Glass (1976), Stroszek (1977), Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979), Fitzcarraldo (1982), Cobra Verde (1987), Lessons of Darkness (1992), Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997), My Best Fiend (1999), Invincible (2000), Grizzly Man (2005), Encounters at the End of the World (2007), Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009), and Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010). He has published more than a dozen books of prose, and directed as many operas.
French filmmaker François Truffaut once called Herzog "the most important film director alive." 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." He was named one of the world's 100 most influential people by Time magazine in 2009.
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Filmography
all 238
Movies 212
self 122
Director 53
TV Shows 26
Narrator 14
Producer 11
Voice 7
Writer 1
Orion and the Dark (2024)
The Arc of Oblivion (2023)
Notes from a Dromedary (2022)
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer (2022)
Tegoyo (2022)
The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022)
Theatre of Thought (2022)
Flores del precipicio (2022)
The Fire Within: Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft (2022)
Last Exit: Space (2022)
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire (2022)
El Poso (2022)
Falling - Q&A (2021)
The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus (2021)
Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life (2021)
Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless (2021)
The Andinist (2020)
Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema) (2020)
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner (2020)
Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds (2020)
Wim Wenders, Desperado (2020)
Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian (2020)
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A. (2020)
Family Romance, LLC (2019)
90 Years of the Music Box Theatre (2019)
Tattoo Uprising (2019)
Meeting Gorbachev (2019)
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin (2019)
Jihad in Hollywood (2019)
Love Birds (2019)
Manaslu: Mountain of Souls (2018)
Paradox Bullets (2018)
The Great Buster: A Celebration (2018)
I'm a Soldier (2018)
The Empty Goal (2018)
Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias (2018)
The whole world is country (2018)
A Gray State (2017)
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant (2017)
The Man Who Killed John Wayne (2017)
Salt and Fire (2016)
Into the Inferno (2016)
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World (2016)
VICE Guide to Film (2016)
The Blimp-Maker (2016)
Jihad in Hollywood (2016)
Freaks of Nature (2015)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015)
Queen of the Desert (2015)
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter (2015)
The Look of Silence (2015)
Penguins of Madagascar (2014)
Lemonade War (2014)
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance (2014)
Red Army (2014)
Werner Herzog: On Death Row and Life as a Director (2014)
Life Itself (2014)
Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014)
The Unbelievers (2013)
Rick and Morty (2013)
Werner Herzog and Errol Morris on 'The Act of Killing' (2013)
An Appreciation of Les Blank by Werner Herzog (2013)
Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision (2013)
Mistaken for Strangers (2013)
From One Second to the Next (2013)
Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around (2013)
Jack Reacher (2012)
The Act of Killing (2012)
Close Up (2012)
10 Questions for Werner Herzog (2012)
The Killers: Unstaged (2012)
Dinotasia (2012)
On Death Row (2012)
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections (2011)
I, I, I José Lewgoy (2011)
Into the Abyss (2011)
On Borrowed Time (2011)
Ode to the Dawn of Man (2011)
Champions: A Comic Tale (2011)
Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood (2011)
Werner Herzog Defends Dade (2010)
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)
Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse (2010)
When Herzog Rescued Phoenix (2010)
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010)
Behind the Madness: The Making of My Son, My Son (2010)
I am My Films, Part 2... 30 Years Later (2010)
Future States (2010)
A Night Out (2010)
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009)
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans (2009)
Plastic Bag (2009)
La Bohème (2009)
The Lonely (2009)
Parks and Recreation (2009)
Capturing Reality (2008)
40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight (2008)
BLAST! (2008)
Lohengrin: Bayreuth Festival Opera (2008)
Bierbichler (2008)
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers (2008)
Back to Room 666 (2008)
Mister Lonely (2008)
Making of a True Story: Rescue Dawn (2007)
Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema (2007)
Encounters at the End of the World (2007)
Munich (Filmfest) Stories - 25 years of Munich Filmfest (2007)
The Grand (2007)
All In This Tea (2007)
The Devil's Muse (2007)
Rescue Dawn (2006)
Metalocalypse (2006)
50 Films to See Before You Die (2006)
Walking to Werner (2006)
The Henry Rollins Show (2006)
In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session (2005)
Q & A with Jana Sevcikova and Werner Herzog (2005)
The Colbert Report (2005)
Perpetuum Mobile: Voices in the Blue Space (2005)
The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)
Grizzly Man (2005)
Dreams and Burdens (2005)
American Dad! (2005)
What Is It? (2005)
Incident at Loch Ness (2004)
The White Diamond (2004)
The Best of Tromadance Film Festival: Volume 3 (2004)
Dribble (2004)
Wheel of Time (2003)
Strawberryland (2002)
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (2002)
The Boxing Prince (2002)
Invincible (2001)
The 100 Greatest Films (2001)
Pilgrimage (2001)
The Last Documentary (2000)
Tannhäuser (2000)
Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor (2000)
Wings of Hope (2000)
The Ball Is a Scumbag (2000)
2000 Years of Christianity (1999)
Julien Donkey-Boy (1999)
A Brief History of Errol Morris (1999)
My Best Fiend (1999)
In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin (1999)
What Dreams May Come (1998)
Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997)
Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait (1996)
The Transformation of the World Into Music (1996)
Die Harald Schmidt Show (1995)
Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices (1995)
Burning Heart (1995)
Dangerous Game (1993)
Bells from the Deep (1993)
La Donna del Lago (1992)
Lessons of Darkness (1992)
Film Lesson (1991)
Film Lesson (1991)
Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur (1991)
SnowwhiteRosered (1991)
Scream of Stone (1991)
Echoes from a Sombre Empire (1990)
Lohengrin: Bayreuth Festival (1990)
Hard to Be a God (1990)
Russian adventure. Peter Fleischmann is filming "It's not easy to be a god." (1990)
The Simpsons (1989)
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun (1989)
Under the Sun (1989)
Bride of the Orient (1989)
The Heart and the Legs (1989)
To the End of the World... and Then a Little Bit Further (1989)
Giovanna d'Arco (1989)
The French as Seen by… (1988)
Lightning Over Braddock: A Rustbowl Fantasy (1988)
The Gauls (1988)
Cobra Verde (1987)
Location Africa (1987)
Portrait: Werner Herzog (1986)
Tokyo-Ga (1985)
The Dark Glow of the Mountain (1985)
Sonntagsgespräch (1985)
Ballad of the Little Soldier (1984)
Where the Green Ants Dream (1984)
Man of Flowers (1983)
Huie's Sermon (1983)
Burden of Dreams (1982)
Room 666 (1982)
The South Bank Show: Werner Herzog (1982)
Fitzcarraldo (1982)
God's Angry Man (1981)
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980)
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers (1980)
Bayerischer Filmpreis (1979)
Okay (1979)
The Making of 'Nosferatu' (1979)
Woyzeck (1979)
I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog (1979)
Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie' (1979)
Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe (1977)
Stroszek (1977)
Journey Through History (1977)
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema (1976)
Heart of Glass (1976)
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck (1976)
No One Will Play with Me (1976)
Lost in the Garden of the World (1975)
Midi Première (1975)
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
Spécial cinéma (1974)
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974)
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
Land of Silence and Darkness (1971)
Fata Morgana (1971)
Tales of the Dumpster Kid (1971)
Handicapped Future (1971)
Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970)
The Flying Doctors of East Africa (1970)
Precautions Against Fanatics (1969)
Signs of Life (1968)
Die Erben von Papas Kino (1968)
Last Words (1968)
The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz (1967)
Neuer Deutscher Film Report (1967)
Grimme-Preis-Verleihung (1964)
Herakles (1962)
Deutscher Filmpreis (1951)
The hunger in the world explained to my son
SPIEL IM SAND
Ten Thousand Years Older
Shards of Cinema and Philosophy
Fordlandia
Dead Man's Wire
Tales from the Opera
No Mr. Werner Herzog, this isn't your Cinématon
Jösta Hagelbäck & Werner Herzog
The Conquest of Mexico
Werner Herzog, Filmmaker
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GenderMale
Birthday1942-09-05 (81 years old)
Birth NameWerner Herzog Stipetić
Birth PlaceMunich, Germany
Religionatheism
SpouseLena Herzog
SiblingsSigrid Duke
RelativesRudolf Herzog
CitizenshipsGermany
ResidencesMunich · Sachrang · Wüstenrot, Germany, Los Angeles · Pittsburgh, United States of America
Also Known As韋納荷索, Werner Herzog Stipetić, Вернер Херцог, 베르네 헤어조크, 베르네 헤어초크
AwardsRauriser Literaturpreis, Directors Guild of America Award, European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award, Bayerischer Poetentaler, Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
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