WERNER HERZOG
Name: Werner Herzog.
Birth name: Werner Stipetić
Born: 5 September 1942 Munich, Germany
Werner Herzog (born Werner Stipetić on September 5, 1942) is a German film
director, screenwriter, actor, and opera director of Croatian descent.
He is often associated with the German New Wave movement (also called New German
Cinema), along with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margarethe von Trotta, Volker
Schlöndorff, Wim Wenders and others. His films often feature heroes with
impossible dreams or people with unique talents in obscure fields.
Herzog was born Werner Stipetić in Munich. He adopted
his father's name Herzog, which means "duke" in German, when his father returned
from a prisoner of war camp after World War II. His family moved to a
remote village in Austria after the house next to theirs was destroyed during
the bombing at the close of World War II. When he was 12, he and his family
moved back to Munich and shared an apartment with Klaus Kinski in
Elisabethstraße in Munich-Schwabing. About this, Herzog recalled, "I knew at
that moment that I would be a film director and that I would direct Kinski".
The same year, Herzog was told to sing in front of his class at school and he
adamantly refused. He was almost expelled for this and until the age of 18
listened to no music, sang no songs and studied no instruments. He later said
that he would easily give 10 years from his life to be able to play an
instrument. At 14 he was inspired by an encyclopedia entry about film-making
which he says provided him with "everything I needed to get myself started" as a
film-maker - that, and the 35 mm camera that the young Herzog stole from the
Munich Film School. He studied at the University of Munich and despite
earning a scholarship to Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania he
supposedly dropped out in a matter of days and made his way to Mexico where he
worked in a rodeo.
In the early 1960s Herzog worked night shifts as a welder in a steel factory to
help fund his first films.
Name: Werner Herzog.
Birth name: Werner Stipetić
Born: 5 September 1942 Munich, Germany
Werner Herzog (born Werner Stipetić on September 5, 1942) is a German film
director, screenwriter, actor, and opera director of Croatian descent.
He is often associated with the German New Wave movement (also called New German
Cinema), along with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margarethe von Trotta, Volker
Schlöndorff, Wim Wenders and others. His films often feature heroes with
impossible dreams or people with unique talents in obscure fields.
Herzog was born Werner Stipetić in Munich. He adopted
his father's name Herzog, which means "duke" in German, when his father returned
from a prisoner of war camp after World War II. His family moved to a
remote village in Austria after the house next to theirs was destroyed during
the bombing at the close of World War II. When he was 12, he and his family
moved back to Munich and shared an apartment with Klaus Kinski in
Elisabethstraße in Munich-Schwabing. About this, Herzog recalled, "I knew at
that moment that I would be a film director and that I would direct Kinski".
The same year, Herzog was told to sing in front of his class at school and he
adamantly refused. He was almost expelled for this and until the age of 18
listened to no music, sang no songs and studied no instruments. He later said
that he would easily give 10 years from his life to be able to play an
instrument. At 14 he was inspired by an encyclopedia entry about film-making
which he says provided him with "everything I needed to get myself started" as a
film-maker - that, and the 35 mm camera that the young Herzog stole from the
Munich Film School. He studied at the University of Munich and despite
earning a scholarship to Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania he
supposedly dropped out in a matter of days and made his way to Mexico where he
worked in a rodeo.
In the early 1960s Herzog worked night shifts as a welder in a steel factory to
help fund his first films.