Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog es un director, documentalista, guionista, productor y actor alemán.
Nació en Múnich como segundo hijo de Dietrich Herzog y Elizabeth Stipetic. Dietrich fue inmediatamente conscripto para el ejército alemán, y la pareja se disolvió. Bajo la custodia de la madre, Werner mantuvo su apellido materno Stipetic hasta que lo cambió por el de su padre, que, "para director de cine, sonaba mucho mejor".
Era muy pobre. Creció sin radio ni cine, en pleno contacto con la naturaleza, en una granja, alejado del mundo moderno. Según afirma él mismo, no tuvo conocimiento de la existencia del cine hasta los once años, la misma fecha en la que vio por primera vez un coche. A los 17 años hizo su primera llamada telefónica.
A los trece años lo llevaron a Múnich para que iniciara sus estudios secundarios. Su familia se alojó provisionalmente en una pensión donde, casualmente, se alojaba Klaus Kinski, (1926-1991), actor que en un futuro sería clave en su carrera cinematográfica. Kinski ni reparó en el Herzog de trece años, pero el futuro director sí lo hizo con el singular actor.
Durante su adolescencia, pasó por una etapa de gran fervor religioso, llegando a convertirse al catolicismo, lo que le provocó discusiones con sus parientes, que eran ateos convencidos. Por esta época empezó a realizar sus primeros largos viajes a pie. Hacia los quince años atravesó media Europa, desde Múnich hasta Albania. También hizo a pie el viaje que lo llevó a Grecia.
Hacia los 17 años decidió dedicarse al cine. Para pagarse sus películas, trabajó en diversos oficios, que combinaba con sus estudios secundarios y más tarde universitarios. Se matriculó en Historia, Literatura y Teatro en Múnich. Hacia 1960 obtuvo la beca Fulbright para el Seminario de cine de la Universidad de Duquesne, en Pittsburgh (Estados Unidos).
A pesar de participar en seminarios universitarios de cine, Herzog nunca estudió en ninguna escuela ni tampoco trabajó como asistente de ningún director; su formación fue completamente autodidacta. En Estados Unidos combinó de nuevo sus estudios con diversos trabajos, como soldador en una fábrica o aparcacoches, para ganar dinero que luego invertiría en su arte. En 1962, a los veinte años, fundó su productora de cine, Herzogfilmproduktionen. Al año siguiente inició el rodaje de su primer cortometraje, Herakles, para el cual tuvo que trabajar dos años y medio en la cadena de montaje de una fundición de Múnich.
Le seguirían Juego en la arena (1964), Últimas palabras (1967) y La incomparable defensa de la fortaleza Deutschkreutz (1967).
Tras esta primera etapa de formación en el cortometraje realizó su primer largometraje, Lebenszeichen (Señales de vida), subvencionado por el Instituto de Cine alemán, que buscaba promocionar a nuevos cineastas. La película ganó el Premio de Cine Alemán (Deutscher Filmpreis). A partir de aquí Herzog inició una carrera singular, que ha combinado la filmación de largometrajes, documentales, dirección de ópera, actuación y redacción de guiones. Werner Herzog sigue activo en la actualidad.
Fotos
Películas (223)
Ally
2027 · (voice)
Al borde del abismo: la aventura peruana de Werner Herzog
2026
Bucking Fastard
2026 · Writer, Director, Producer
Elefantes fantasmas
2026 · Self - Narrator (voice), Director, Writer, Producer, Screenplay
Felicidad
2025 · Producer
Mi casa amarilla
2025 · Consulting Editor
Sirena
2025
Reeling
2025 · Executive Producer
Theater of Thought
2024 · Director, Executive Producer, Screenplay
The End
2024 · Executive Producer
About a Hero
2024
The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
2024 · Narrator (voice), Director, Writer
Celebrating the Rice Media Center
2024 · Self (archival footage)
Orión y la oscuridad
2024 · Narrator (voice)
The Arc of Oblivion
2023 · Narrator (voice), Executive Producer
Notes from a Dromedary
2022 · Creative Consultant
Werner Herzog. Un soñador radical
2022 · Self
Tegoyo
2022 · Self (Voice)
Flores del precipicio
2022 · Producer
Last Exit: Space
2022 · Narrator (voice), Executive Producer
Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire
2022 · Self (archive footage)
El Poso
2022 · Producer
The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus
2021 · Self (archive footage)
Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life
2021 · Self (archive footage)
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
2021 · Self
Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless
2021 · Self
The Andinist
2020 · The Painter (Narrator)
Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema)
2020 · Narrator (voice)
Fireball: Visitantes de mundos oscuros
2020 · Self - Narrator (voice), Director, Writer
Wim Wenders, Desperado
2020 · Self
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A.
2020 · (archive footage)
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
2020 · (archive footage)
Family Romance, LLC
2019 · Writer, Director of Photography, Director, Camera Operator
90 Years of the Music Box Theatre
2019 · Self
Tattoo Uprising
2019 · Self
Conociendo a Gorbachev
2019 · Self, Director, Writer
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
2019 · Self - Interviewer and Narrator (voice), Writer, Director
Jihad in Hollywood
2019 · Self
Love Birds
2019 · Consulting Producer
The Last Scene
2019 · Executive Producer
Manaslu: Mountain of Souls
2018 · Self
Paradox Bullets
2018 · Narrator (voice)
El gran Buster
2018 · Self
I'm a Soldier
2018 · Self
The Empty Goal
2018 · Thanks
Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias
2018 · Self
The whole world is country
2018 · Consulting Producer
The Golden Gate
2018 · Executive Producer
One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo
2017 · Self
Werner We Love You
2017 · Self
A Gray State
2017 · Executive Producer
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
2017 · Self
The Man Who Killed John Wayne
2017 · Self (archive footage)
Sal y Fuego
2016 · Man with One Story (uncredited), Director, Writer, Producer
Dentro del volcán
2016 · Self, Director, Writer
Lo and behold: El inicio de Internet
2016 · Self, Director, Producer, Writer
The Blimp-Maker
2016 · Thanks
Jihad in Hollywood
2016 · Self
Fenómenos De La Naturaleza
2015 · Perfect Being (voice)
La reina del desierto
2015 · Director, Writer
Red Army
2015 · Executive Producer
Los Pingüinos de Madagascar
2014 · Documentary Filmmaker (voice)
Atari: Game Over
2014 · Self (archival)
Lemonade War
2014 · Neighborhood Hero
La mirada del silencio
2014 · Executive Producer
Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance
2014 · Self (archive footage)
Werner Herzog: On Death Row and Life as a Director
2014 · Self
Life Itself
2014 · Self - Filmmaker
The Unbelievers
2013 · Self
Werner Herzog and Errol Morris on 'The Act of Killing'
2013 · Self
An Appreciation of Les Blank by Werner Herzog
2013 · Self
Heimat – La otra tierra
2013 · Alexander von Humboldt
Mistaken for Strangers
2013 · Self (uncredited)
From One Second to the Next
2013 · Director
Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around
2013 · Self
The Last Shepherd
2013 · Thanks
Jack Reacher: Bajo la Mira
2012 · Zec Chelovek
Strawberryfields
2012 · Turnlehrer
The Act of Killing
2012 · Executive Producer
Close Up
2012 · Self (archive footage)
10 Questions for Werner Herzog
2012 · Self
The Killers: Unstaged
2012 · Self, Director
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
2012 · Self
Dinotasia
2012 · Narrator (voice)
No Mr. Werner Herzog, this isn't your Cinématon
2012 · Self
I, I, I José Lewgoy
2011 · Self
Into the Abyss
2011 · Narrator (voice), Director, Writer, Producer
On Borrowed Time
2011 · Self
Ode to the Dawn of Man
2011 · Director, Sound, Cinematography
Champions: A Comic Tale
2011 · Self
Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood
2011 · Self
Werner Herzog Defends Dade
2010 · Self
La cueva de los sueños olvidados
2010 · Narrator (voice), Screenplay, Director
Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse
2010 · Self
When Herzog Rescued Phoenix
2010 · Narrator (voice)
Into the Night With Harmony Korine and Gaspar Noe
2010 · Self
Gente feliz: un año en la Taiga
2010 · Narrator (voice), Executive Producer, Director, Writer
Behind the Madness: The Making of My Son, My Son
2010 · Self
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
2010 · Director, Screenplay
I am My Films, Part 2... 30 Years Later
2010 · Self
The Making of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
2010 · Himself
A Night Out
2010 · Thanks, Technical Advisor
Un Maldito Policia en Nueva Orleans
2009 · Director
Plastic Bag
2009 · Plastic Bag (voice)
La Bohème
2009 · Director
The Lonely
2009
Capturing Reality
2008 · Self
Encuentros en el fin del mundo
2008 · Narrator (voice), Director, Writer, Sound
40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
2008 · Self
BLAST!
2008 · Narrator (voice)
Lohengrin: Bayreuth Festival Opera
2008 · Stage Director
Bierbichler
2008 · Self
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
2008 · Self
Mister Lonely
2008 · Father Umbrillo
Back to Room 666
2008 · Self (archive footage)
Making of a True Story: Rescue Dawn
2007 · Self
Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema
2007 · Self
Munich (Filmfest) Stories - 25 years of Munich Filmfest
2007 · Self
Rescate al amanecer
2007 · Director, Author
The Grand
2007 · The German
All In This Tea
2007
The Devil's Muse
2007 · Creative Consultant
50 Films to See Before You Die
2006 · Self
Walking to Werner
2006 · Self (voice)
In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session
2005 · Self
Q & A with Jana Sevcikova and Werner Herzog
2005 · Self
Perpetuum Mobile: Voices in the Blue Space
2005 · Self
La salvaje y azul lejanía
2005 · Screenplay, Director
El Hombre Oso
2005 · Self / Narrator (voice), Director
Dreams and Burdens
2005 · Self
What Is It?
2005 · Thanks
Incidente en el lago Ness
2004 · Self, Producer
The White Diamond
2004 · Narrator (voice), Director, Screenplay
The Best of Tromadance Film Festival: Volume 3
2004 · Self (voice) ("Dribble" short)
Dribble
2004 · Self (voice)
Wheel of Time
2003 · Narrator (voice), Producer, Director, Writer, Editor
Ten Thousand Years Older
2002 · Director, Screenplay
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
2002 · Director, Writer
The Boxing Prince
2002 · Self
Invincible
2001 · Writer, Director, Producer
The 100 Greatest Films
2001 · Self
Pilgrimage
2001 · Director
The Last Documentary
2000 · Self
Tannhäuser
2000 · Stage Director
Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
2000 · Self
The Ball Is a Scumbag
2000 · Self
Wings of Hope
1999 · Self, Director, Writer
Julien Donkey-Boy
1999 · Father
A Brief History of Errol Morris
1999 · Self
My Best Fiend
1999 · Self, Director, Writer
In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
1999 · Self
What Dreams May Come
1998 · Face
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
1997 · Narrator (voice), Director, Writer
Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait
1996 · Self
The Transformation of the World Into Music
1996 · Self, Director, Writer, Executive Producer
Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices
1995 · Narrator (voice), Director, Writer, Producer
Burning Heart
1995
Dangerous Game
1993 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Bells from the Deep
1993 · Narrator (voice), Director, Writer
La Donna del Lago
1992 · Director
Lessons of Darkness
1992 · Self - Narrator (voice), Director, Writer, Executive Producer
Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur
1991 · Narrator (voice), Producer, Director, Screenplay
SnowwhiteRosered
1991 · Self
Scream of Stone
1991 · TV-Regisseur, Director
Echoes from a Sombre Empire
1990 · Self, Director, Producer, Writer
Hard to Be a God
1990 · Mita / Richard
Russian Adventure. Peter Fleischmann is Filming "Hard to Be a God"
1990 · Self
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
1989 · Narrator (voice), Director, Writer, Co-Producer
Bride of the Orient
1989 · Businger
The Heart and the Legs
1989 · Self
To the End of the World... and Then a Little Bit Further
1989 · Self
Giovanna d'Arco
1989 · Director
The French as Seen by…
1988 · Director
The Gauls
1988 · Director
Cobra Verde
1987 · Screenplay, Director
Location Africa
1987 · Self, Producer
Portrait: Werner Herzog
1986 · Self, Director, Writer
Tokyo-Ga
1985 · Self
The Dark Glow of the Mountains
1985 · Self (voice), Director, Writer, Producer
Room 666
1985 · Self
Ballad of the Little Soldier
1984 · Self (voice), Producer, Writer, Director
Where the Green Ants Dream
1984 · Lawyer (uncredited), Director, Producer, Writer
Man of Flowers
1983 · The Father
God's Angry Man
1983 · Narrator (voice), Director, Writer
Huie's Sermon
1983 · Director
Burden of Dreams
1982 · Self - Filmmaker
Fitzcarraldo
1982 · Director, Producer, Screenplay
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
1980 · Self, Writer
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
1980 · Self - Film Director: Nosferatu
The Making of 'Nosferatu'
1979 · Self
Woyzeck
1979 · Director, Screenplay
I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog
1979 · Self
Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie'
1979 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Nosferatu the Vampyre
1979 · Producer, Director, Writer
La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
1977 · Narrator (voice), Director, Sound Engineer, Producer
Stroszek
1977 · Director, Screenplay, Producer
Journey Through History
1977 · Self
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
1976 · Self
Heart of Glass
1976 · Glass Transporter, Director, Writer, Producer
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
1976 · Self, Producer, Director, Sound
No One Will Play with Me
1976 · Director, Writer
Lost in the Garden of the World
1975 · Self
Tales of the Dumpster Kid
1974 · Hurenmörder
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
1974 · Director, Screenplay, Producer
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
1974 · Self, Director, Screenplay, Producer
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
1972 · Director, Producer, Writer
Fata Morgana
1972 · Director, Screenplay, Producer, Sound
Land of Silence and Darkness
1971 · Director, Screenplay, Sound Recordist, Producer
Handicapped Future
1971 · Interviewer (voice) (uncredited), Director, Sound Recordist, Producer, Writer, Sound
Even Dwarfs Started Small
1971 · Director, Screenplay, Producer
The Flying Doctors of East Africa
1970 · Director, Writer, Sound Recordist, Producer
Precautions Against Fanatics
1969 · Director, Producer, Writer, Sound
Signs of Life
1968 · Soldier (uncredited), Writer, Director, Producer
Die Erben von Papas Kino
1968
Last Words
1968 · Director, Screenplay, Producer
The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz
1967 · Director, Editor, Screenplay
Neuer Deutscher Film Report
1967
Herakles
1962 · Director, Editor, Screenplay, Producer, Sound
Jösta Hagelbäck & Werner Herzog
· Self
Shards of Cinema and Philosophy
· Self
The hunger in the world explained to my son
· Writer
The Twilight World
· Director, Novel
Walk of Life
· Director
Series (35)
Soccer Meets America
2026 · Self
Hulk Hogan: Real American
2026 · Self
Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen
2020 · Self
Galería Disney / Star Wars : The Mandalorian
2020 · Self - The Client
The Mandalorian
2019 · The Client
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · Self - Guest
Hollywood en primer plano
2015 · Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · Self - Guest
Rick y Morty
2013 · Shrimply Pibbles (voice)
On Death Row
2012 · Werner Herzog, Writer, Director, Creator
Construyendo un parque
2009 · Keg Jennings
Metalocalypse
2006
The Henry Rollins Show
2006
Boondocks
2005 · Himself (voice)
The Colbert Report
2005
American Dad: Un Agente de Familia
2005 · Werner Herzog (voice)
Kulturplatz
2004 · Self
2000 Years of Christianity
1999 · Director
Sternstunde Philosophie
1998 · Self
Storyville
1997
Die Harald Schmidt Show
1995 · Self
Placido Domingo's Tales from the Opera
1994 · Self - Director
Film Lesson
1991 · Self, Director
Los Simpson
1989 · Walter Hotenhoffer (voice), Werner Herzog (voice), Dr. Lund (voice)
Under the Sun
1989 · Director
Sonntagsgespräch
1985 · Self
Bavarian Film Awards
1979 · Self
Okay
1979 · Self
The South Bank Show
1978
Ciné regards
1978 · Self
Midi Première
1975 · Self
Spécial cinéma
1974 · Self
60 Minutes
1968 · Self
Grimme Award
1964 · Self
German Film Award
1951 · Self