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Werner Herzog
German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and opera director (born 1942)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 5 September 1942
- Place of birth
- Munich
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Werner
- Spouse
- Lena Herzog
- Child
- Hanna Mattes
- Sibling
- Sigrid Herzog
- Movement
- New German Cinema
- Field of work
- film direction, opera directing, film production, film screenwriting, acting
- Occupation
- film director, film producer, screenwriter, film editor, film actor, author, cinematographer, voice actor, documentary filmmaker, opera director, film screenwriter, actor
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Religion
- atheism, Catholicism
- Awards
- Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Directors Guild of America Award, Bayerischer Poetentaler, Rauriser Literaturpreis, European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award, Golden Lion, Q137870547, Alfred P. Sloan Prize
- birth name
- Werner Herzog Stipetić
- different from
- Werner Herzog
- documentation files at
- SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts
- educated at
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Maximiliansgymnasium München, Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium Heilbronn
- filmography
- Werner Herzog filmography
- has works in the collection
- Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Harvard Film Archive
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English, German, Ancient Greek, Latin
- member of
- Directors Guild of America
- name in native language
- Werner Herzog
- notable work
- 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
- participant in
- Documenta 6
- related category
- Category:Films directed by Werner Herzog
- relative
- Rudolf Herzog
- residence
- Los Angeles, Sachrang, Munich, Pittsburgh, Wüstenrot
- start of work period
- 1962
- topic's main category
- Category:Werner Herzog
- unmarried partner
- Eva Mattes
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