Werner Herzog

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1942 age 0

   Born

2. 1972 age 30

   CreditAguirre, the Wrath of Goddirector

   CreditAguirre, the Wrath of Godproducer

   CreditAguirre, the Wrath of Godscreenwriter

3. 1974 age 32

   CreditThe Enigma of Kaspar Hauserdirector

   CreditThe Enigma of Kaspar Hauserproducer

   CreditThe Enigma of Kaspar Hauserscreenwriter

4. 1979 age 37

   CreditNosferatu the Vampyre

   CreditNosferatu the Vampyredirector

   CreditNosferatu the Vampyrescreenwriter

5. 1982 age 40

   CreditFitzcarraldodirector

   CreditFitzcarraldoproducer

   CreditFitzcarraldoscreenwriter

6. 1998 age 56

   CreditWhat Dreams May Come

7. 2012 age 70

   CreditJack Reacher

8. 2015 age 73

   CreditQueen of the Desertdirector

   CreditQueen of the Desertscreenwriter

• BMBeate Mainka-Jellinghaus4 titles
• KKKlaus Kinski3 titles
• PPPedro Pascal2 titles
• GEGiancarlo Esposito2 titles
• JFJon Favreau2 titles
• ASAmy Sedaris2 titles
• TWTaika Waititi2 titles
• BHBryce Dallas Howard2 titles
• OAOmid Abtahi2 titles
• CWCarl Weathers2 titles

• Partner

  • EMEva Mattes

Nothing recorded for: Spouse, Parents, Children, Siblings, Influenced by, Studied under, Taught.

• You are all wrong.

  Werner Herzog, CC BY-SA 4.0

• 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.

  Werner Herzog, CC BY-SA 4.0

• 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.

  Werner Herzog, CC BY-SA 4.0

• 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.

  Werner Herzog, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.

  Werner Herzog, CC BY-SA 4.0

• 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.

  Werner Herzog, CC BY-SA 4.0

Nationalities

Germany

Languages

English, German, Ancient Greek, Latin

Years active

1962–

Notable works

Signs of Life, Even Dwarfs Started Small, Aguirre, the Wrath of God, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Heart of Glass, Stroszek, Nosferatu the Vampyre, Woyzeck, Fitzcarraldo, Where the Green Ants Dream, Cobra Verde, Scream of Stone, Invincible, The Wild Blue Yonder, Rescue Dawn, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?, Queen of the Desert, Salt and Fire, Family Romance, LLC, The Flying Doctors of East Africa, Handicapped Future, Land of Silence and Darkness, Fata Morgana, The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner, How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck, Huie's Sermon, God's Angry Man, Ballad of the Little Soldier, The Dark Glow of the Mountains, Wodaabe – Herdsmen of the Sun, Echoes from a Somber Empire, Jag Mandir, Lessons of Darkness, Bells from the Deep, The Transformation of the World into Music, Little Dieter Needs to Fly, Wings of Hope, My Best Fiend, Wheel of Time, The White Diamond, Grizzly Man, Encounters at the End of the World, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Into the Abyss, Into the Inferno, Meeting Gorbachev, Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds, The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft, Theatre of Thought, Ghost Elephants

Education

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Maximiliansgymnasium München, Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium Heilbronn