

The Box Set is produced by Werner Herzog Film, supervised by producer Lucki Stipetic.

This new mastered DVD Box Set contains 22 documentaries and shorts by Werner Herzog from the period 1962 till 2005.

The documentary work by Werner Herzog between 19 Desolate and gentle, full of lust for life and wonder at our world, this book is a literary event.Ĭarl Hanser Literatur- und Sachbuchverlag München A lover, an enthusiast, a driven man: a man who quietly talks to the raging Klaus Kinski in the middle of the jungle, a man who sits weeping for his friend Bruce Chatwin at his deathbed.įor Werner Herzog's 80th birthday, his memoirs are published, which are anything but merely a resume. A youth with an all-bursting thirst for adventure, who hitchhikes all alone and soon finds himself in the furthest reaches of Egypt, delirious with fever, waiting for death. Werner Herzog's long-awaited memoir recounts a life of the century that wouldn't even fit into one of his own famous films.Ī perpetually hungry boy, fleeing with his mother from bombed Munich to a desperately poor nest in the Alps. "As a child," writes Werner Herzog, "I was convinced I would not reach my eighteenth year." It turned out differently. His life is a life of the century, his memoirs are a literary event. On the occasion of his 80th birthday: the memoirs of the great filmmaker Werner Herzog Invitations will be sent out shortly before the preview. In around 70 feature films and documentaries, Werner Herzog has created extraordinary visual imagery that goes far beyond what we are accustomed to seeing at the cinema.Ī press tour with the team of curators takes place at the Deutsche Kinemathek on 24 August, 2022, at 11 am. The popular television entertainers Joko & Klaas parodied him, Herzog has had guest appearances on the ‘Simpsons,’ and he has drawn a great deal of attention to the ‘Star Wars’ series ‘The Mandalorian’ (since 2019) by playing the villain. There is hardly another living director who can keep pace with the extent of Herzog’s many contributions, not to mention his imitators on social networks. Werner Herzog is cult! Celebrated as a director and with his work premiering at international film festivals, Herzog stands not only for his non-conformist attitude among cineastes, but is also highly popular among the internet-savvy generation.
