When Alan Greenberg first showed up at Werner Herzog's Munich home at age twenty-four, he was, according to the director, the first outsider to seek him and recognize his greatness. At the end of their first evening together, Herzog urged Greenberg to work with him on his film "Heart of Glass"--and [...]

In late November 1974, filmmaker Werner Herzog received a phone call from Paris delivering some terrible news. German film historian, mentor, and close friend Lotte Eisner was seriously ill and dying. Herzog was determined to prevent this and believed that an act of walking would keep Eisner from de[...]

A vision had seized hold of me, like the demented fury of a hound that has sunk its teeth into the leg of a deer carcass and is shaking and tugging so frantically that the hunter gives up trying to calm him. It was the vision of a large steamship scaling a hill under its own steam, while above this [...]

Werner Herzog has produced some of the most powerful, haunting, and memorable images ever captured on film. Both his fiction films and his documentaries address fundamental issues about nature, selfhood, and history in ways that engage with but also criticize and qualify the best philosophical think[...]

A Companion to Werner Herzog represents more than two dozen original scholarly essays examining five decades of cinematic contributions by one of the world's most acclaimed and innovative filmmakers.[...]

This is a revealing collection of career-spanning interviews with one of the most important figures of the New German Cinema. Over the course of his career, legendary director Werner Herzog (b. 1942) has made almost sixty films and given more than eight hundred interviews. This collection features t[...]

The first study in twenty years dedicated to the enfant terrible of German cinema, cult director Werner Herzog.[...]

Von Pessoa zu Lobo Antunes, Saramago und Tabucchi: Das Buch ist ein Erkundungsgang durch Gassen, Strassen und Lokale Lissabons, der sich unversehens zu einem Streifzug durch die portugiesische Geschichte, Literatur und Politik ausweitet. Könige und Priester, Adelige und Schankwirte, Schriftsteller [...]

I november 1974 tager Werner Herzog ud på en vandring fra München til Paris. Han er overbevist om at hvis han når frem til sit bestemmelsessted, vil hans veninde, filmhistorikeren Lotte Eisner, der ligger syg i Paris, overleve.   Kun udstyret med en rygsæk, et kompas og lidt penge begiver han s[...]