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werner herzog film menu home news biography works by werner herzog on werner herzog photos wh foundation deutsche kinemathek berlin press contact robin holland news golden lion for lifetime achievement at venice film festival 2025 german film director and screenwriter werner herzog receives the golden lion for lifetime achievement from us film director francis ford coppola during the opening ceremony of the 82nd international venice film festival on august 27 2025 at venice lido acclaimed german filmmaker werner herzog was honoured with the golden lion for lifetime achievement at the venice film festival on wednesday in recognition of his decades long contribution to world cinema and his fearless exploration of the human condition through film the 82 year old arthouse giant who helped launch new german cinema in the 1960s received the golden lion for lifetime achievement ahead of the debut of his latest documentary ghost elephants about a lost herd in angola on thursday zdf he was handed a special winged golden lion statue by the godfather director and friend francis ford coppola who praised the german s limitless creativity i have always tried to strive for something that goes deeper beyond what you normally see in movie theatres a deep form of poetry that is possible in cinema herzog told a star studded audience in an acceptance speech guided by a search for truth in unusual ways he added i always try to do something which was sublime or something transcendental herzog has never ceased from testing the limits of the film language said festival artistic director alberto barbera in announcing the award in april lena herzog ghost elephants documentary search for a mysterious herd of ghost elephants in the jungles of angola see more at films by werner herzog werner herzog at the 23rd ilb we are delighted to welcome werner herzog as a participant in the event landscapes in trance werner herzog reading and discussion on september 14 2023 7 pm at haus der berliner festspiele werner herzog director of more than 40 feature films and documentaries that rank among the milestones of cinematic art talks with writer jan brandt about the importance of writing and literature for his work from the essay of walking in ice about a hike from munich to paris in the winter of 1974 which has its own magic as a meditation on life and death to the legendary diary of the filming of fitzcarraldo with klaus kinski and his memoir every man for himself and god against all 2022 werner herzog zu gast beim 23 ilb wir freuen uns werner herzog als gast bei der veranstaltung landschaft in trance werner herzog in lesung und gespräch am 14 09 2023 um 19 uhr auf der großen bühne des hauses der berliner festspiele begrüßen zu dürfen der regisseur von mehr als 40 spiel und dokumentarfilmen die zu den meilensteinen der filmkunst zählen spricht mit dem schriftsteller jan brandt über die bedeutung des schreibens und der literatur für sein werk von dem essay vom gehen im eis über eine wanderung von münchen nach paris im winter 1974 der als meditation über leben und tod eine ganz eigene magie besitzt bis zum legendären tagebuch der dreharbeiten zu fitzcarraldo mit klaus kinski und seine erinnerungen jeder für sich und gott gegen alle 2022 exhibition eye museum amsterdam the ecstatic truth 18 juni 1 october 2023 exhibition films talks events read more at www eyefilm nl werner herzog turns 80 hallucinations reading from texts by werner herzog volkstheater vienna october 28 2022 with werner herzog and ernst reijseger mola sylla harmen fraanje and ernst reijseger mola sylla harmen fraanje and the sardinian chorus cuncordu e tenore de orosei during an event at the occasion of werner herzog s 80th birthday the volkstheater in vienna in cooperation with viennale staged an exclusive reading by werner herzog from his memoires jeder für sich und gott gegen alle the reading is accompanied by the musicians ernst reijseger mola sylla harmen fraanje and the sardinian chorus cuncordu e tenore de orosei music from another world the musicians offered three encores after the reading werner herzog wird 80 halluzinationen lesung aus texten von werner herzog volkstheater wien 28 oktober 2022 mit werner herzog und ernst reijseger mola sylla harmen fraanje und ernst reijseger mola sylla harmen fraanje sowie dem sardischen chor cuncordu e tenore de orosei anlässlich seines 80 geburtstags liest werner herzog im volkstheater in wien exklusiv aus seinen 2022 im spätsommer beim hanser verlag erschienenen erinnerungen an sein leben in musikalischer begleitung von ernst reijseger mola sylla und harmen fraanje sowie dem traditionellen sardischen chor cuncordu e tenore de orosei musik aus einer anderen welt die musiker gaben drei zugaben nach der lesung werner herzog a deutsche kinemathek exhibition 25 august 2022 27 march 2023 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 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 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 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 a press tour with the team of curators takes place at the deutsche kinemathek on 24 august 2022 at 11 am invitations will be sent out shortly before the preview read more at www deutsche kinemathek de jeder für sich und gott gegen alle on the occasion of his 80th birthday the memoirs of the great filmmaker werner herzog his life is a life of the century his memoirs are a literary event as a child writes werner herzog i was convinced i would not reach my eighteenth year it turned out differently werner herzog s long awaited memoir recounts a life of the century that wouldn t even fit into one of his own famous films a perpetually hungry boy fleeing with his mother from bombed munich to a desperately poor nest in the alps 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 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 for werner herzog s 80th birthday his memoirs are published which are anything but merely a resume desolate and gentle full of lust for life and wonder at our world this book is a literary event preorder now carl hanser literatur und sachbuchverlag münchen werner herzog on the late show with stephen colbert late night with seth meyers all of us are in some sort of theater we create for ourselves werner herzog on being a character 6 22 2022 the late show with stephen colbert werner herzog is the author of the new book the twilight world and he joins stephen for a two part interview that begins with an examination of the theater of life and the incredible story of the subject of his book hiroo onada werner herzog doesn t get nervous when he releases new movies 6 24 2022 late night with seth meyers werner herzog discusses the true story behind his novel the twilight world how he manages working on multiple projects at once and why he doesn t like speaking french werner herzog s wondrous novel of nothingness in the jungle the new yorker june 16 2022 the twilight world the german director s new book of fiction the twilight world mythologizes the real life story of a japanese holdout after the second world war by dan piepenbring read article at www newyorker com interview with the new york times june 8 2022 werner herzog s fever dreams the filmmaker behind grizzly man and fitzcarraldo makes a late career foray into fiction with his new book the twilight world he feels he has finally found his medium by alexandra alter see the whole interview sheffield docfest 2022 line up includes world premiere of werner herzog s the fire within the uk s sheffield docfest june 23 28 has unveiled its 2022 line up including the world premiere of werner herzog s the fire within requiem for katia and maurice krafft the fire within which is written narrated and directed by herzog will feature in docfest s memories strand it chronicles the french volcanologists who died in a volcanic eruption on japan s mount uzen in 1991 leaving an archive of more than 200 hours of footage that makes up the film herzog previously explored the life of katie and maurice krafft in his 2016 netflix documentary into the inferno for more details visit www sheffdocfest com interview with the new yorker april 26 2022 werner herzog has never liked introspection a conversation with the filmmaker about the place of literature the toll of war and the conviction that his writing will outlast his movies by michael lapointe for the whole interview visit www newyorker com new novel the twilight world by werner herzog published 2021 the great filmmaker werner herzog in his first novel tells the incredible story of hiroo onoda a japanese soldier who defended a small island in the philippines for twenty nine years after the end of world war ii hiroo onoda is young when japan surrenders to the usa and the second world war ends without him knowing about it he is old when his war finally comes to an end as well for decades after the soldier has continued to defend a meaningless island in the pacific like a ghost onoda hides in the jungle fighting with the merciless nature as well as with his own demons the great author and filmmaker werner herzog met the man with this special past himself in japan his first book in many years is a glowing moving pictorial dance of the sense and nonsense of our existence german documentary award 2022 honorary lifetime achievement award to werner herzog this year the honorary award of the german documentary film prize goes to werner herzog for his life s work the 79 year old director producer and author is one of the most important and influential filmmakers worldwide his films are considered densely narrated masterpieces that blur the line between fiction and documentary as a director he thus creates style defining documentary works that are often dedicated to the elemental force of nature the attraction of distant places or the depths of the human condition the prize was awarded as part of the swr doku festival on june 24 2022 wim wenders and werner herzog swr sigrid faltin more news biography werner herzog was born in munich on september 5 1942 he grew up in a remote mountain village in bavaria and studied history and german literature in munich and pittsburgh he made his first film in 1961 at the age of 19 since then he has produced written and directed more than sixty feature and documentary films such as aguirre der zorn gottes aguirre the wrath of god 1972 nosferatu phantom der nacht nosferatu 1978 fitzcarraldo 1982 lektionen in finsternis lessons of darkness 1992 little dieter needs to fly 1997 mein liebster feind my best fiend 1999 invincible 2000 grizzly man 2005 encounters at the end of the world 2007 die höhle der vergessenen träume cave of forgotten dreams 2010 werner herzog has published more than a dozen books of prose and directed as many operas werner herzog lives in munich and los angeles long biography works by werner herzog films actor books screenplays text opera stage translations gerald v foris photos in this section you will find more than 600 images film stills as well as working photos in high resolution quality and metadata the images are provided by our archive the deutsche kinemathek in berlin films by werner herzog deutsche kinemathek berlin works on werner herzog there are many films made on werner herzog his work and his life some of them have been produced with werner herzog s participation or guidance in this section you will find the two films by christian weisenborn i am my films of 1976 and the follow up i am my films part ii of 2010 as well as the famous documentaries burden of dreams and werner herzog eats his shoe by les blank films gerald v foris press to get your authorization code please contact us login contact submit a request mandatory field first name mandatory field last name mandatory field e mail mandatory don t fill this field don t fill this field don t fill this field message submit copyright 2026 werner herzog film gmbh spiegelgasse 9 1010 vienna austria imprint privacy cookie settings unfortunately this content is not available without cookie acceptance please allow the cookie category presentation to view this content 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