Talk:Werner Herzog/Archive 1

Quotations
I agree quotes really don't need to be on the pedia page when there are wikiquotes. Excessivereason 21:58, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

Perhaps some of the quotations should be removed? There's already a link to wikiquote for those that want to read this guy's ramblings. Having so many quotes in the article kind of clutters things up, in my opinion. Does anyone else agree? 207.6.31.119 02:32, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

Alright, I've moved quotes to the wikiquote article, leaving about four. I chose the four in a completely arbitrary manner, so if anyone wants to switch them with other quotes, go ahead, but lets try to keep it to a maximum of five quotes or less. 207.6.31.119 07:54, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Quotations
I've nuked the quotations section; the quotes belong on wikiquote, not here, so long as they are not integrated into the text of the article in some other fashion. Kellen T 07:00, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Main image
I put in a picture of Werner from his official site. He's such a dashing guy. Excessivereason 16:17, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

I changed the photo to a larger and very recent photo that is also released under the Creative Commons. Maybe the dashing photo could be further down? Notbot 08:39, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

I think the official press photo looks better. Your photo has the "female fan" that really detracts from Werner. Professional photos nearly always look better than someone's digicam shots. Excessivereason 15:06, 27 November 2005 (UTC)


 * I have to disagree with "excessivereason" on this one. though fan photos can be unprofessional and tacky, this one is pretty much the most current photo of him in which he doesn't look like he's 1) insane 2) a jerk 3) about to die. it also shows him totally proud of himself and connected with a sincere response from a fan. --midget submarines 28 November 2005.

I'm going to agree with those that say a professional photo would be better. The official photo of him in the thinkeresque pose is a very good one. The professional photos in addition to being much classier also tend to be of him when he is younger, which was when he was at the peak of his career. Furthermore, whenever their is a picture of him associated with a release, it tends to be the one I describe above, and is therefore how Herzog, it would seem, prefers to be presented. I also agree that having the female fan is distracting, this is a page for Herzog--not "Herzog and female fans." --Lholder 1033, 2005-12-3.

Yes, the main image (the professional head shot) isn't so hot. And why shouldn't he appear "insane"? That's his public persona. After all, this is the man who ate his shoe, who hypnotized his actors in Heart of Glass, who had a ship hauled over a mountain, who threatened to kill Klaus Kinski, who walked 500 miles across Europe to visit the dying Lotte Eisner, who took a crew to film a volcano moments before it erupted, etc etc etc. Sure, he's a showman. But maybe a bit insane too. I think a "crazy" photo would do him justice. -- piltdown 12/14/2005.

Ha, it looks like someone put the fan photo back up. I think the fan photo looks very odd, it looks like Herzog is at a sleazy party, and his stance is very funny. I think it is inappropriate though, the only people I can imagine wanting it to remain is the woman in the picture and people who find want to laugh. There are much better pictures out there, I'm sure. (NOBODY)


 * Now it looks like someone added a different photo from his official website (Image:Herzogpic.jpg). I am satisfied with this one because it actually captures a bit of his essence. Although it could use a description. My guess is that it's from Cobra Verde and was taken in Ghana, anyone agree? The original is also much higher res, but again, not under a free license so the small version might be safer. Notbot 02:12, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Fanboy pic is up again! Awful main pic, Herzog in profile, with the more prominence given on the fan?! C'mon Anybody else think the same guy in the photo is the same guy putting that photo up over and over again? Official Herzog-only pic would be more apt, I think. --Mike -5/26/07


 * That pic could be easily cropped to just Werner and re-uploaded. CAN 16:42, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

It is definitely the same fanboy posting his pic. I don't understand why this is even an issue. It should be a professional photo. The article is about Herzog, not his fans. Gregarius 03:50, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
 * The issue is free vs. fair use. Any "professional photo" that's not free (such as the one that was just tried out) could be tagged with Template:Replaceable fair use and deleted. The purpose of the image is to visually identify Herzog, which both fanboy pics that I've see do adequately. Sure they're lame pictures, but they get the job done. Staecker 09:40, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Headlines
— WiseKwai 20:52, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
 * http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,,2203239,00.html
 * http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/11/03/sm_wernerherzog.xml

Onion
A recent review in The Onion AV club has a lot to say about this guy, including the fact that he once ate his shoe upon losing a bet. Pretty intense, and perhaps encyclopedic.--Joel 06:26, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

That's not very obscure Trivia at all - Les Blank made a film about it, appropriately titled, "Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe"

Likewise the bet wasn't particularly trivial either. Acclaimed documentarian Errol Morris grew to knew Herzog at the Pacific Film Archives at the University of California - Berkeley. Morris talked about wanting to become a filmmaker at length to the point that Herzog stated that if he ever made a film he would eat his shoe. When Morris' first film "Gates of Heaven" was released Herzog fulfilled his part of the bet with the already-referenced 10 minute film (which I believe is now available on YouTube). While an interesting anecdote the influence of Herzog on Morris is also relevant information that ought to be covered by the article.69.181.55.239 (talk) 10:02, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Possible external link
I'd like to point the editors of this article to a great piece on movingimagesource.us about Werner Herzog, here:

http://www.movingimagesource.us/articles/outskirts-of-the-kingdom-20080604

I'm affiliated with Moving Image Source and cannot post this as an external link myself, but I think it should be added. Moving Image Source is a non-profit interested only in disseminating great criticsm.

Thanks. Tom m mus (talk) 14:14, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

This article has no substance
Although he is a fascinating human, I am sure that Herzog would resent the obsession with the minutae of his life that this article contains. Can we not write anything about his enormous body of work? (avoiding generalization, of course)

It is inappropriate to mention his work with Klaus Kinski in the opening blurb of the entry. As Herzog himself mentioned, Kinski made only five films with Herzog out of his total body of two-hundred and ten films; additionally, Herzog has made over fifty films, and again, only five were with Kinski. ZColeSmith 4-19-06


 * I completely disagree. It is highly significant that he lived in the same apartment as Kinski during his youth and like it or not, they both continue to be substantially defined by those five films, and their professional and personal relationship - a fact recognised by Herzog in his biogragraphical film, My Best Fiend as well as in Les Blank's Burden of Dreams.
 * Fanx 00:08, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

I completely agree that this article is devoid of substance, and that everything about Kinski should be moved to a section about his relationship with Kinski. (Sombody)


 * Ich stimme zu. No doubt this article needs some major re-writing. The early life section is very scattered and poorly written. While I think his extreme excentricity is very important, many of the events listed in the intro should really be under triva. His relationship with Klaus Kinsky is worthy of mention up front, but definitely deserves its own section. If I get my hands on his biography I might be able to do better, but for now I can only complain. Notbot 03:11, 12 May 2006 (UTC)


 * While the article has clearly been well sanitised, it is also quite banal and uninformative. Herzog's life, like his work, is complicated and difficult to penetrate, and the sparse information carried in the article was pretty uninformative and gave me little to no insight into his background or character.  There is little-to-no insight offered into over-riding themes or sensibilities of his creative endeavours, no attempt to put his artistic development into some sort of contextual chronology.  A bland list of films, with his kinski collaborations given only slightly better shrift, would be like the wiki article on Picasso just listing his pictures in order with a date and link next to them.  For a writer/director/documentarian with such a large body of contemporary work, you'd think it would be relatively easy to source and quote creative criticism.  ESPECIALLY given his documenting of his film-making and relationship with Kinski in My Best Fiend, and the commentary tracks available on many DVD issues of his film.  While erasing fluff is prudent, turning the article into a brief introduction plus filmography isn't very "encyclopaedic."

--Ace42 (talk) 04:43, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Fiction/Documentary section
The list needs to be searched - If you had seen or went on IMDb you could have found out that Even Dwarfs Started Small was fiction not a documentary. That suggests to me that this article was written by non-fans/ignoramuses. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.192.140.163 (talk) 09:08, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Ethnicity

 * Is he south slavonic immigrant? --Sheynhertz-Unbayg 11:37, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Herzog is a native of Germany. He was born outside of Munich near the Austrian border, but his family originally comes from parts of Germany now in Poland. His original name is Stipetic, like his brother/producer Lucki.
 * Thank you! More accurate information please. I thought that Croatian origine. --Sheynhertzגעשׁ״ך 15:41, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

I worked with Werner on Cobra Verde and the director is very much proud of his Serbian ancestry. His Father was Bunjevac of Sebian heritage so you can take that as evidence he would know what he was. Salvatore B.


 * Thank you so much anonymous IP. I am really convinced! Do you by any chance know who is responsible for Kennedy's murder? EurowikiJ 15:27, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Werner would laugh at this.

Everyone seems to agree that Herzog was born in Germany. . How important is it whether he is ethnically Serbian or Croatian (or Polish)? It appears his father was Croatian and his mother German according to the sources I could find. As far as having heard him say differently, hearsay is not a reliable reference, especially from a person who is notoriously unreliable when it comes to his personal history. About half of the stories floating around about Herzog are apocryphal. Personally, I think that whether or not he's half Croatian is unimportant.--Staple 03:10, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

When you belong to a small nation, it is very important. You fight for every man and a woman you have. Kubura 14:37, 26 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Well, if we're going to get technical (and we are), he was born in Germany from a German woman's womb. It's hard to get more "original" than that.  He is of German origin.  His father is a Croat.  He is a German of half-Croatian (or Serbain or Martian) ancenstry.  But as far as I know, none of his films deal directly with this issue.  Herzog has a page here on Wikipedia because he is a noteworthy filmmaker, not because he has a noteworthy ethnicity.  So, I still think that if we can't come to a consensus we can get away with leaving the information out. Thanks--Staple 18:54, 26 April 2006 (UTC)


 * All right Solomon! :-p I think this is the perfect solution, just excise the whole issue from the article, but I have a feeling it won't stop this particularly bizarre and entertaining edit war.  MrBook 19:15, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Yep. This way everyone can get half a baby.;)--Staple 19:19, 26 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Sigh. But nobody reads the discussion page--they just make their changes by rote and leave.  154...seems to be the worst offender.  Somebody needs to call in the UN Peacekeeping troops.--Staple 17:47, 27 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Yeah. I was briefly afraid that I'd jinxed it, but it's probably just a lost cause one way or the other.  Even if he reads the talk page, he doesn't care.  "You're right, Charlie Brown... talking to Lucy is exactly like talking to a brick wall."  MrBook 14:55, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

To confuse Anonymous even more: Heritage does not always mean ethnicity. If, for example, his father was a Croat but had a lot of Serb friends (imagine the paradox), then Werner-kun could have gotten a lot of Serb heritage, right? So your task is to find an article where he says that his father was Serb. Go! --GunnarRene 17:58, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

The German article states his mother was of Croatian origin. Qzm (talk) 15:06, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

Sprotect
I've sprotected this page, due to what looks like multiple IP socks used to evade a 3RR ban. Complaints below, please William M. Connolley 20:41, 3 May 2006 (UTC)


 * No complaints. Thank you. EurowikiJ 23:05, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Herzog is half-Croat, it's well known. Some links below:

http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/cteq/01/19/aguirre.html

http://www.danceage.com/biography/sdmc_Werner_Herzog

http://psychcentral.com/psypsych/Werner_Herzog —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 83.131.230.178 (talk • contribs) 22:19, 11 June 2006.


 * Actually 2 of your links support that he is Serbian heritage and the the Petz (sp) article has been in dispute for years. Herzog has mentinoned in an interview that he has Serb roots. Wouldn't Herzog know what his own background was? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 154.20.148.186 (talk • contribs) 16:11, 12 June 2006.


 * Those two articles I have linked are wikipedia mirrors. He is of Croatian origin. If you said he said it in interview, please send link to that interview then. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 83.131.245.193 (talk • contribs) 19:50, 12 June 2006.


 * Verifiability and Reliable sources agrees that this mystery magazine should be cited. But i struck out those wikipedia mirrors, because a previous version of this article is not a reliable source for itself. --GunnarRene 17:43, 29 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Also to mention that Stipetić in not Serbian surname. http://www.belestrane.nadlanu.com/site/ : no telephone registereed on any Stipetic in Belgrade http://www.tportal.hr/imenik/ : many stipetics is Zahreb, over140 actually —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 83.131.245.193 (talk • contribs) 19:50, 12 June 2006.

German Wikipedia (different article than English Wikipedia) also Claims Herzog is an Croat http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Herzog —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 83.131.233.11 (talk • contribs) 05:07, 30 June 2006.
 * not a credible source in the matter. Please remember to sign your posts. --Crossmr 05:35, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Thats 3 reverts today. Discuss the changes here on the talk page and reach a concensus to his nationality. Provide credible sources and make the appropriate change on the article. Continued reversion is going ot lead to blocks. --Crossmr 16:02, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

The page was semi-protected again by an admin, and should hopefully remain so until a concensus is reached. I've placed this matter here: Current_surveys to request more input and hopefully reach a concensus. --Crossmr 17:22, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Um, I came here from the RfC... Like most people coming here from the RfC, I would suppose, I have no idea of the exact details of Herzog's ethnic heritage and no way to find out. Why not just leave it the way it is, his mom was a Yugoslavian (or just say Southern Slav if you prefer). The fact is, he's German by culture... actually, who cares really. The people revert-warring over this should consider that they're playing into a negative stereotype if you get my drift, do they really want that. Block 'em. Herostratus 00:59, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Summary of Yugoslavian father
The argument for keeping Stipetić, Herzog's father, as a Croat is that it's a Croatian name. That is the only point that sounds convicing to me so far. All other points, from both sides, have been totally unreferenced or attempted sourced in unreliable sources. --GunnarRene 20:06, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

According to a recent edit, Herzog's father's family self-identify as Serbian and live in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The blog does not fit the definition as a reliable source, but it's enough that I change it back to Yugoslavian.--GunnarRene 16:21, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
 * If it doesn't fit the definition of a reliable source, then its not a reliable source and you shouldn't be basing content of an article on it.--Crossmr 20:48, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm not directly basing content on it, but rather as a source of doubt about including something else. At this point, we don't have any reliable sources on this matter, so the father stays Yugoslavian for the time being.--GunnarRene 22:32, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
 * If its not a source of reliable information, its not a source of reliable doubt. If we have no reliable source on his ancestry, any mention of it should be removed. Insisting it stay Yugoslavian without source is tantamount to WP:OWN.--Crossmr 23:53, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

I wouldn't mind if the nationality of his parents were removed. I put in the "citation needed" template after all. It's just that nobody has ever tried to dispute that his father is from the former Yugoslavia; we had edit warring over whether he was Serb or Croat. --GunnarRene 01:30, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Current marriage
This article states his third marriage took place in 1999, the German article states 2006. Qzm (talk) 15:06, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

Trivia section clean-up
The trivia section is sprawling and unsourced. I've started the journey of 1000 miles but cutting this bit of trivia:

*Herzog shot his first film, Signs of Life, on the Greek island of Kos where his grandfather, Rudolph Herzog, worked as an archeologist and discovered the asclepieion, a sanctuary dedicated to the demigod Asclepius.

Considering that "Herzog" is a name that he adopted later and not his birth name, I find this one to be rather dubious. If someone can find a source, we'll put it back in. At some point this week, I'll go through the trivia section with a fine-toothed comb, and I hope others do, too. A Train take the 23:02, 16 December 2006 (UTC)


 * I'll help. This line has no relevance to a Herzog article:


 * *In 1990 a Joy Division-influenced band named themselves The Stroszeks. They split up in 1992.
 * DanBeale 17:29, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

I dont think you can ever have to much Trivia! kstan1

There's way too much trivia on the page. I've moved it here so that it can either be reworked into body text, or deleted, as appropriate. So of this stuff is important, some of it is interesting without being important, but much of it is fluff. DanBeale 11:41, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Dan Beale the trivia nazi has removed what was hands-down the most popular section of the Herzog page. Why? Because it's "sprawling and unsourced." It "sprawls" because, like any cult figure, Herzog has grown inseparable from the lore about him. His recent 'live' shooting injury on BBC-TV while hiking the Hollywood hills on is a case in point. The trivia here is much better sourced than what makes it to Wiki article pages on other colorful figures -- Sinatra, David Lynch and Nixon to pick names out of a hat. But it *is* fun reading, and one senses that Dan doesn't go in for fun. Three of the so-called unsourced factoids came out of Herzog's mouth at recent public appearances in Los Angeles -- two are in his autobiographical essays. I vote to put back the trivia. -- Egomet Bonmot

BEGIN TRIVIA SECTION CUT AND PASTE DanBeale 11:41, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Trivia

 * Once walked on foot (in a literal straight line through fields and forests) from Munich to Paris to visit an ailing friend, critic and poet Lotte Eisner. The experience is recounted in Herzog's book Of Walking in Ice (ISBN 0-934378-01-0).


 * Once ate his own shoe after promising to do so in an attempt to inspire then-fledgling filmmaker Errol Morris. Morris was interested in making a film about a pet cemetery (Gates of Heaven) and Werner believed Morris was not ambitious enough to do so. This story was the subject of a documentary by Les Blank called Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980).


 * "Game in the Sand" has never been released and to date has only been viewed by a handful of individuals. Herzog has expressed that this film grew "out of control" during filming, and that he would never publicly release it and that he was considering destroying the negatives before his death.  It is purportedly about four children and a rooster.


 * While filming Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Herzog rested his arm on a tree and mistakenly pulled down a branch that was the home of thousands of fire ants. They all fell on top of him and he was stung approximately 150 times before he got them all off.  Soon after, he developed a fever but decided not to cease filming.


 * Herzog had a cameo appearance in the 1998 film What Dreams May Come as a soul in Hell.


 * Herzog parodied himself in the 2004 mockumentary Incident at Loch Ness, commenting "Nobody had discovered the Woody Allen in me."


 * Narrowly avoided travelling on an airliner that crashed in the Amazonian rainforest with only one survivor (Juliane Koepcke) on 24 December, 1971. Werner Herzog was location scouting for Aguirre, Wrath of God and his reservation on this flight was cancelled due to overbooking. The incident inspired Herzog to film Wings of Hope together with Koepcke.


 * Herzog on his documentaries: "I do not believe in the Cinema Verite.  Sometimes a really good *lie* is better than any truth."  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.231.200.47 (talk) 08:20, 13 March 2009 (UTC)


 * On January 26, 2006, Herzog helped to rescue actor Joaquin Phoenix when his car overturned after a brake malfunction on a winding road in Laurel Canyon, CA, near Herzog's home. As Phoenix described it: "I remember this knocking on the passenger window. There was this German voice saying, 'Just relax.' There's the air bag, I can't see and I'm saying, 'I'm fine. I am relaxed.' Finally, I rolled down the window and this head pops inside. And he said, 'No, you're not.'"


 * It is often rumoured that Herzog filmed Kinski at gunpoint in Aguirre, Wrath of God because he had made attempts to leave the set. Herzog himself has claimed that this is a gross exaggeration.  His own version of these events can be seen in "My Best Fiend" and read in the interview book "Herzog on Herzog" - in which he states that Kinski threatened to leave the set and he informed the volatile actor that if he did, Herzog would have eight bullets in Kinski's head and one in his own before Kinski reached the first bend in the river.


 * On 3 February, 2006, it was reported that Herzog was shot by a crazed fan during a BBC interview. Herzog was chatting with Mark Kermode about his documentary Grizzly Man, when a sniper opened fire with an air rifle. Kermode thought a firecracker had gone off. Herzog said afterwards, "It was not a significant bullet. I am not afraid."


 * Ian Curtis, lead singer of the band Joy Division, reportedly committed suicide a few hours after watching Stroszek on BBC 2 on 18 May, 1980.


 * The original vinyl release version of Joy Division's posthumous album Still featured the following groove notation: "The chicken won't stop" (side A), etched chicken tracks across the grooves (sides B & C), and "The chicken stops here" (side D). These are all references to Stroszek's grim finale.


 * Once jumped into a cactus patch after one of his actors, a dwarf, caught on fire and was run over by a car while filming (stating "I'm going to jump into a cactus if you all survive."). He allowed the crew to film and take photographs of him attempting the stunt and said afterwards that it was more painful climbing out of the cacti than it was diving in. Herzog confessed to Les Blank that one of the spines remains in his knee to this day.


 * In 2006, Lee Kazimir from Chicago travelled from Madrid to Kiev on foot following Werner Herzog's quote about this being the true way to learn about the world.


 * Claims not to dream at night and is so opposed to the idea of self-reflection that he "swear[s] to God" that he does not even know the color of his own eyes. (They are blue)


 * Has a tattoo of Death on his upper right arm.


 * Has played over 20 films at the Telluride Film Festival over the years.

END TRIVIA SECTION CUT AND PASTEDanBeale 11:41, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

The removal of the entire trivia section is excessive and ridiculous. In particular, the Joaquin Phoenix and the air-rifle incident (with corresponding quote) are a significant part of the Herzog mythos - why are we removing these items based on some arbitrary standard of what is "fluff" and what isn't? Even if the trivia section had fluff, there was no need to delete the entire thing and then have other people "work it back in." Deleting as necessary would have been a much more efficient approach.


 * My GOD!!! I came to this page to read about Werner Herzog, and found this bland, anesthetized nothing of an article.  From the amazing stories I've heard about him, I was taken aback, until I stumbled in here.  WHY ISN'T THIS ON THE MAIN PAGE!?  You guys need to get your stuff together.--Concerned citizen, 20 February 2008  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.175.115.27 (talk) 08:22, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

If the trivia section is reinstated (as well it should be in some form or another), it may be worth noting that Herzog voiced the narrator in the Boondocks Season 3 episode, "It's a Black President, Huey Freeman" (May 2, 2010). The episode list even points to this article. Thatfield977 (talk) 13:20, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

Errors regarding Personnel
Walter Saxer

Walter Saxer was not the producer of Herzog's films. He was production manager. The difference is that a producer pours money into a project while a production manager is in charge of the production, i.e. logistics, handling extras, handling set equipment, making sure things get done on time etc. I think you get the idea. So it ought to be changed into production manager.

I got this information from Herzog on Herzog where he specifically mentions Saxer as "production manager on many of my films" and not actual producer. The only film Saxer did produce was Scream of Stone in which Saxer was heavily involved. Herzog only stepped into the project later and found out he was "set against a stone wall" and he describes it as "not being one of my films" because he could not change major portions of the screenplay. Again, this information is from Herzog on Herzog.

Herzog's film company Werner Herzog Filmproduktion produced almost all of his films.

Cheers.

Nayakikanghada (talk) 06:06, 21 July 2010 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure which is correct, but this contradicts the information on imdb and in several previous books (e.g New German Cinema: A History), which credit Saxer as executive producer for Cobra Verde, Fitzcarraldo and Nosferatu. 10:04, 21 July 2010 (UTC) Mighty Antar (talk) 10:06, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
 * The BFI website lists him as executive producer on Nosferatu and Cobra Verde. Mighty Antar (talk) 10:11, 21 July 2010 (UTC)


 * IMDB shows that Saxer worked as a production manager at least twice as many times than he did as producer. And even as producer, he wasn't the the only one; whereas, it is obvious that only one person would be a production manager. It shows that Saxer's role as production manager was far more significant than as producer. Nayakikanghada (talk) 08:24, 24 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Also, Herzog specifically refers to Saxer as production manager in My Best Fiend in a scene showing Kinski screaming at Saxer. Nayakikanghada (talk) 08:24, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

Shot
During a BBC interview, Herzog was shot by a Pellet gun during the interview. Herzog was shot and bleeding; However, he did not want to track down the gunman. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.68.106.3 (talk) 04:41, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)I believe should be switched to the documentary list — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.73.142.148 (talk) 20:30, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

Dinosaur Revolution film
http://www.kansascity.com/2011/08/26/3101799/discoverys-dinosaur-revolution.html

Apparently Herzog will be involved in the production of a film version of Dinosaur Revolution. Is it worth including? Chris (talk) 00:42, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
 * This sounds very cool, but the source says Discovery has yet to confirm. Probably should wait til they confirm?  The Interior  (Talk) 01:20, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Okay, then. Chris (talk) 14:08, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

resource
Werner Herzog on Death Row DECEMBER 22, 2011 The New York Review of Books by Lorrie Moore, regarding Into the Abyss: A Tale of Death, a Tale of Life a film directed by Werner Herzog 99.181.147.68 (talk) 03:28, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

External links modified
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Move to Sachrang
"When Werner was two weeks old, his mother took refuge in the remote Bavarian village of Sachrang (in the Chiemgau Alps), after the house next to theirs was destroyed during a bombing raid at the close of World War II" is incorrect. He'd be two weeks old in 1942, the height of the war, not the close of the war. The cited source does not help to clarify this. So which is correct? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:8805:5805:A00:ED63:B6B9:A0AB:DFB2 (talk) 12:15, 12 June 2016 (UTC)
 * the article states that his mother left munich when herzog was 2 weeks old, at the end of wwii. herzog was born in 1942. the war ended in 1945. something isn't right.Toyokuni3 (talk) 16:05, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes, I was about to post the same observation.Pincrete (talk) 19:00, 2 July 2016 (UTC)

Werner Herzog and Klaus Klinski were prolific animal abusers.
Can there be a controversy section added? He and Klaus Klinski were prolific abusers of animals.86.2.213.86 (talk) 23:38, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Please see WP:BLP in regards to Herzog.  freshacconci  (✉) 23:32, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

What about it? It doesn't seem relevant considering it isn't debated, it's a fact. He admits it himself what he did. 86.2.213.86 (talk) 23:38, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

Werner Herzog shot by sniper with a BB gun
I seen this on video & the presenter said he was "shot then he said just now you was shot" so was he ever shot before this incident & is this irrelevent that it should be in here? Personally i think its not worth putting in here but i just seen in on youtube so i thought i checked this guy out ok thats all i got to say 67.182.212.31 (talk) 00:55, 4 July 2008 (UTC) ChesterTheWorm
 * video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylXqc8TQ15w -- weird to see how calm he was. 199.214.26.11 (talk) 01:00, 5 November 2008 (UTC)


 * I thought it was pretty notable  even if it was a pellet gun, and I was surprised it wasn't mentioned in the article. The bizarre incident and his reaction to it, feels insightful to me. I'm glad to see the article does explain Werner Herzog eats his shoe. -- 37.110.218.43 (talk) 11:38, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

Klaus Kinski
I have deleted the below section from the first paragraph under "Life", because the deleted statement is unfounded, unreferenced and is in conflict what Werner Herzog himself states in the additional DVD accompanying "Encounters at the End of the World" DVD where Jonathan Demme interviews him in NY circa 2007.

"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.""

In the mentioned interview, Herzog states that he had "seen his first movie at 17, and produced his first film at 19"

This makes it impossible for Werner to claim that he knew at age 12 that he would be a film director and that he would direct Kinski.

Besides, I remember reading somewhere his side of the story on how he met with Kinski; and I remember it to be different than the "Elisabethstraße shared apartment" story.

If, however, the deleted statement can be referenced, it should be reinstated. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.221.214.138 (talk) 17:10, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

In a documentary interview Herzog says Kinsky and he would conspire together to make up all kinds of horrible things to say about each other to the press. This, he said, was to create the impression of the adversarial relationship between him and Kinsky. He gives several other examples of himself being a real world "unreliable narrator" as part of his story telling, and movie promotions techniques. Some Herzog mentioned using this technique on were "My Best Fiend, and Fitcarraldo. Also he used this technique as a technique within the technique in his "film within a film within a film" "Incident at Loch Ness". Like Stanley Kubrick's oft used story within a story technique Herzog uses the unreliable narrator, and himself in real life as an unreliable narrator as part of his story telling.

98.164.95.72 (talk) 14:40, 25 April 2019 (UTC)

Organization?
Is it just me, or is the section on his career poorly organized. There seems to be no rhyme or reason. The chronological order of it wouldn't matter if it was organized in some other fashion, but it just seems to have been randomly mixed. HAL 333  03:45, 6 November 2019 (UTC)

Reference for Languages Spoken
Reference 67 is the source for Werner Herzog's languages spoken. The link is to a YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pY-0JfEdLY. One comment on that video claims it is a clip from the Mockumentary "The Incident at Loch Ness", and should be taken with a grain of salt.

>> Lasco, 11 months ago

>> It's from the mockumentary Incident at Loch Ness. Though Werner Herzog plays his own role, it's fiction. And everything he says (like everything in this movie) is to be taken with a grain of salt at best.

Philshem (talk) 11:26, 30 May 2022 (UTC)