Editing Werner Herzog (section)

==Life==
===Early life===
Herzog was born Werner Stipetić<ref name="Frankfurter Rundschau-2022">{{cite web |url=https://www.fr.de/kultur/tv-kino/ein-guter-soldat-des-kinos-werner-herzog-wird-80-zr-91767839.html |title="Ein guter Soldat des Kinos": Werner Herzog wird 80 |website=[[Frankfurter Rundschau]] |date=6 September 2022 |access-date=28 December 2022 |language=de |archive-date=28 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221228211105/https://www.fr.de/kultur/tv-kino/ein-guter-soldat-des-kinos-werner-herzog-wird-80-zr-91767839.html |url-status=live }}</ref> in [[Munich]], [[Nazi Germany|German Reich]], on 5 September 1942, the son of Elisabeth Stipetić and Dietrich Herzog. His mother was Austrian with Croatian ancestry, while his father was German. When he 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 an [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] bombing raid in [[World War II]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Werner Herzog on the Story Behind 'Rescue Dawn' |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11782309 |publisher=[[Fresh Air]] |date=27 October 1998 |access-date=21 June 2007 |archive-date=13 October 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013092552/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11782309 |url-status=live }}</ref> He, his older brother Till and younger half-brother [[Lucki Stipetić|Lucki]] grew up without running water, a flushing toilet, or a telephone. He recounted that his family had "no toys" and "no tools" and said that there was a sense of anarchy, as all the fathers of the village's children were absent.<ref name="YouTube">{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUFKrI8YqbM  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/IUFKrI8YqbM| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live|title=Jonathan Demme interviews Werner Herzog (Museum of the Moving Image, 2008)|website=YouTube|access-date= Nov 29, 2008}}{{cbignore}}</ref> He never saw films, and did not even know cinema existed until a traveling projectionist came by the one-room schoolhouse in Sachrang.<ref>{{cite book |last=Cronin |first=Paul |title=Werner Herzog: A Guide for the Perplexed: Conversations with Paul Cronin |publisher=Faber and Faber |year=2014 |isbn=978-0-571-25977-9 }}</ref>

When Herzog was 12, he and his family moved back to Munich. His father had abandoned the family early in his youth, but he later adopted his father's surname (which is [[Herzog|German for "duke"]]) as he thought it sounded more impressive for a filmmaker.<ref>{{cite web |last=Laster |first=Paul |url=https://observer.com/2011/05/werner-herzog-comes-out-of-the-cave/ |title=Werner Herzog Comes Out of the Cave |work=New York Observer |date=25 July 2011 |access-date=15 August 2013 |archive-date=13 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130813220333/http://observer.com/2011/05/werner-herzog-comes-out-of-the-cave/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Herzog made his first phone call when he was seventeen; two years later, he started work on his first film, ''[[Herakles (film)|Herakles]]''.<ref name="YouTube" /> Herzog says that when he eventually met his father again, "fairly late in life", his mother had to translate Werner's German into the [[Bavarian language]] which his father spoke so the two could communicate.<ref name="YouTube-2">{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4b7vBWwbuo |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/n4b7vBWwbuo| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live|title=Legendary Werner Herzog talks books with author Robert Pogue Harrison|website=YouTube|date=16 February 2016 |access-date=Nov 29, 2020
}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Herzog, aged thirteen, was told by a bullying music teacher to sing in front of his class at school in an effort, Herzog said, "to break my back."  When he adamantly refused he was almost expelled. The incident scarred him for life.<ref name="YouTube" /> For several years Herzog listened to no music, sang no songs, and studied no instruments, but when he turned eighteen he immersed himself in music with particular intensity.<ref name="YouTube" />

At an early age, he experienced a dramatic phase in which he converted to [[Catholic Church in Germany|Catholicism]], which lasted only a few years. He started to embark on long journeys, some on foot. Around this time, he knew he would be a filmmaker and learned the basics from a few pages in an encyclopedia which provided him with "everything I needed to get myself started" as a filmmaker—that, and the [[Movie camera|35 mm camera]] he stole from the [[University of Television and Film Munich|Munich Film School]].<ref>Bissell, Tom. "The Secret Mainstream: Contemplating the mirages of Werner Herzog", ''[[Harper's Magazine|Harper's]]'', December 2006</ref> In the commentary for ''[[Aguirre, the Wrath of God]]'', he says, "I don't consider it theft. It was just a necessity. I had some sort of natural right for a camera, a tool to work with".

During Herzog's last years of high school, no production company was willing to take on his projects, so he worked night shifts as a welder in a steel factory to earn the funds for his first featurettes.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/film-and-television-biographies/werner-herzog|title=Werner Herzog &#124; Encyclopedia.com|website=www.encyclopedia.com|access-date=29 November 2020|archive-date=20 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201020065730/https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/film-and-television-biographies/werner-herzog|url-status=live}}</ref> When he finished school, but before he formally graduated, he followed his girlfriend to [[Manchester]], England, where he spent several months and learned to speak English. He found the language classes pointless and "fled".<ref>{{cite book |last=Cronin |first=Paul |author2=Werner Herzog |title=Herzog on Herzog |publisher=Faber and Faber |year=2002 |location=London |pages=[https://archive.org/details/herzogonherzog00herz/page/1 1]–2 |isbn= 978-0-571-20708-4 |url=https://archive.org/details/herzogonherzog00herz|url-access=registration |quote=truffaut. }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xUTsAwAAQBAJ&q=werner+herzog+bought+house+manchester&pg=PT32 |title=Werner Herzog – A Guide for the Perplexed: Conversations with Paul Cronin |isbn=978-0-571-25978-6 |access-date=Nov 30, 2020 |last1=Cronin |first1=Paul |date=5 August 2014 |publisher=Faber & Faber |archive-date=16 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240116063857/https://books.google.com/books?id=xUTsAwAAQBAJ&q=werner+herzog+bought+house+manchester&pg=PT32#v=snippet&q=werner%20herzog%20bought%20house%20manchester&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> After graduating from high school, he was intrigued by the post-independence [[Democratic Republic of the Congo|Congo]], but in attempting to travel there, reached only the [[South Sudan|south of Sudan]] before falling seriously ill.<ref>Herzog, W. (2008). What was worst. ''The Virginia Quarterly Review'', ''84''(1), 197–198. https://www.vqronline.org/vqr-symposium/what-was-worst {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210730205626/https://www.vqronline.org/vqr-symposium/what-was-worst |date=30 July 2021 }}</ref> While already making films, he had a brief stint at the [[Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich|University of Munich]], where he studied history and literature.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wishmachinery.com/2017/11/does-werner-herzog-have-college-degree.html |title=Does Werner Herzog Have a College Degree? Answer |website=www.wishmachinery.com |access-date=8 November 2017 |archive-date=8 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171108205506/http://www.wishmachinery.com/2017/11/does-werner-herzog-have-college-degree.html |url-status=usurped }}</ref> Herzog subsequently moved to [[Pittsburgh]], Pennsylvania, in order to study at [[Duquesne University]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-mn-werner-herzog-on-sunset-blvd-20170411-story.html|title=Werner Herzog wouldn't live anyplace other than Los Angeles, 'the city with the most substance'|first=Joe|last=Donnelly|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=April 11, 2017|access-date=August 17, 2020|archive-date=20 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200820045105/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-mn-werner-herzog-on-sunset-blvd-20170411-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Early and mid-career: 1962–2005===
Herzog, along with [[Rainer Werner Fassbinder]], [[Wim Wenders]] and [[Volker Schlöndorff]], led the beginning of the [[New German Cinema]], which included documentarians who filmed on low budgets and were influenced by the [[French New Wave]]. He developed a habit of casting professional actors alongside people from the locality in which he was shooting. His films, "usually set in distinct and unfamiliar landscapes, are imbued with mysticism."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wernerherzog.com/long-biography.html|title=Werner Herzog Film – Long Biography|website=www.wernerherzog.com|access-date=29 November 2020|archive-date=27 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210427195138/https://www.wernerherzog.com/long-biography.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Herzog says his youthful experience with Catholicism is evident in "something of a religious echo in my work".<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xUTsAwAAQBAJ&q=werner+herzog+bought+house+manchester&pg=PT32|title=Werner Herzog – A Guide for the Perplexed: Conversations with Paul Cronin|isbn=978-0-571-25978-6|access-date=Nov 29, 2020|last1=Cronin|first1=Paul|date=5 August 2014|publisher=Faber & Faber|archive-date=16 January 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240116063857/https://books.google.com/books?id=xUTsAwAAQBAJ&q=werner+herzog+bought+house+manchester&pg=PT32#v=snippet&q=werner%20herzog%20bought%20house%20manchester&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1971, while Herzog was [[location scouting]] for ''[[Aguirre, the Wrath of God]]'' in [[Peru]], he narrowly avoided taking [[LANSA Flight 508]]. Herzog's reservation was cancelled due to a last-minute change in itinerary. The plane was later struck by [[lightning]] and disintegrated, but one survivor, [[Juliane Koepcke]], lived after a free fall. Long haunted by the event, nearly 30 years later he made a documentary film, ''[[Wings of Hope (documentary)|Wings of Hope]]'' (1998), which explored the story of the sole survivor.

Herzog and his films have been nominated for and won many awards. His first major award was the [[Jury Grand Prix|Silver Bear Extraordinary Prize of the Jury]] for his first feature film ''[[Signs of Life (1968 film)|Signs of Life]]''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1968/03_preistr_ger_1968/03_Preistraeger_1968.html |title=Berlinale 1968: Prize Winners |access-date=3 March 2010 |work=berlinale.de |archive-date=7 January 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140107082140/http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1968/03_preistr_ger_1968/03_Preistraeger_1968.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> (''[[Nosferatu the Vampyre]]'' was also nominated for Golden Bear in 1979). Herzog won the Best Director award for ''[[Fitzcarraldo]]'' at the [[1982 Cannes Film Festival]]. In 1975, his movie ''[[The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser]]'' won the ''[[Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival)|Grand Prix Spécial du Jury]]'' (also known as the "Silver Palm") and the [[Prize of the Ecumenical Jury]] at the Cannes Festival. Other films directed by Herzog nominated for Golden Palm are: ''[[Woyzeck (1979 film)|Woyzeck]]'' (1979) and ''[[Where the Green Ants Dream]]'' (1984). His films have been nominated at many other festivals around the world: [[César Awards]] (''[[Aguirre, the Wrath of God]]''), [[Emmy Awards]] (''[[Little Dieter Needs to Fly]]''), [[European Film Awards]] (''[[My Best Fiend]]'') and [[Venice Film Festival]] (''[[Scream of Stone]]'' and ''[[The Wild Blue Yonder (2005 film)|The Wild Blue Yonder]]''). In 1987, Herzog and his half-brother Lucki Stipetić won the [[Bayerischer Filmpreis|Bavarian Film Award]] for Best Producing for the film ''[[Cobra Verde]]''.<ref>[http://www.bayern.de/Anlage19170/PreistraegerdesBayerischenFilmpreises-Pierrot.pdf] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090325165025/http://www.bayern.de/Anlage19170/PreistraegerdesBayerischenFilmpreises-Pierrot.pdf|date=25 March 2009}}</ref> In 2002, he won the Dragon of Dragons Honorary Award at the [[Kraków Film Festival]].

Herzog once promised to eat his shoe if [[Errol Morris]] completed a film project on pet cemeteries that he had been working on, in order to challenge and motivate Morris as he perceived Morris to be incapable of following up on the projects he conceived. In 1978, when the film ''[[Gates of Heaven]]'' premiered, Herzog cooked and publicly ate his shoe; the event was later incorporated into a short documentary, ''[[Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe]]'' (1980), by [[Les Blank]]. Herzog suggested that he hoped the act would serve to encourage anyone having difficulty bringing a project to fruition.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Abramovitch|first=Seth|date=2015-02-05|title=1979: When Werner Herzog Ate His Shoe|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/1979-werner-herzog-ate-his-770500/|access-date=2021-10-27|website=The Hollywood Reporter|language=en-US|archive-date=24 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221224190554/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/1979-werner-herzog-ate-his-770500/|url-status=live}}</ref>

In the winter of 1974, German-French writer [[Lotte H. Eisner]] (a friend and mentor of Herzog since the late 1950s) fell gravely ill; Herzog walked from [[Munich]] to [[Paris]], believing that she would not die if he did so.<ref name =Herzog>{{cite web| url = http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/werner-herzog-s-german-comeback-cinema-legend-heads-berlinale-jury-a-677080-3.html| title = Walking Himself into Intoxication| author = Beier, Lars-Olav| date = February 11, 2010| accessdate = April 5, 2017| publisher = Spiegel, Deutschland| archive-date = 13 February 2018| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180213002743/http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/werner-herzog-s-german-comeback-cinema-legend-heads-berlinale-jury-a-677080-3.html| url-status = live}}</ref> During these travels, which took him three weeks, he kept a diary that would eventually be published as ''[[Of Walking in Ice]]''. Eight years later, the 87-year-old Eisner allegedly complained to Herzog of her infirmities and told him, "I am saturated with life. There is still this spell upon me that I must not die{{emdash}}can you lift it?" He says that he agreed to do so, and she died eight days later.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.openculture.com/2016/08/werner-herzog-tells-a-book-club-why-the-peregrine-is-one-of-his-favorite-books.html|title=Werner Herzog Tells a Book Club Why the Peregrine is One of His Favorite Books, a 20th-Century Masterpiece &#124; Open Culture|access-date=20 December 2023|archive-date=25 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231125052844/https://www.openculture.com/2016/08/werner-herzog-tells-a-book-club-why-the-peregrine-is-one-of-his-favorite-books.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[File:Herzog4.jpg|thumb|upright|Herzog at the [[1991 Venice International Film Festival]]]]
Werner Herzog moved to Los Angeles with his wife in the late 1990s. He said of the city, "Wherever you look is an immense depth, a tumult that resonates with me. New York is more concerned with finance than anything else. It doesn't create culture, only consumes it; most of what you find in New York comes from elsewhere. Things actually get done in Los Angeles. Look beyond the glitz and glamour of Hollywood and a wild excitement of intense dreams opens up; it has more horizons than any other place. There is a great deal of industry in the city and a real working class; I also appreciate the vibrant presence of the Mexicans."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://laist.com/news/entertainment/werner-herzogs-take-on-los-angeles|title=Werner Herzog's Thoughts On Los Angeles Are Pretty Great|date=4 May 2015|website=LAist|access-date=16 February 2022|archive-date=16 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220216152935/https://laist.com/news/entertainment/werner-herzogs-take-on-los-angeles|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Later directorial career: 2006 onwards ===

Herzog was honored at the 49th [[San Francisco International Film Festival]], receiving the 2006 Film Society Directing Award.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://fest06.sffs.org/awards/werner_herzog.php |title=Film Society Directing Award |access-date=8 April 2009 |work=sffs.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080527080736/http://fest06.sffs.org/awards/werner_herzog.php |archive-date = 27 May 2008}}</ref> Four of his films have been shown at the San Francisco International Film Festival: ''[[Herdsmen of the Sun|Wodaabe – Herdsmen of the Sun]]'' in 1990, ''[[Bells from the Deep]]'' in 1993, ''[[Lessons of Darkness]]'' in 1993, and ''[[The Wild Blue Yonder (2005 film)|The Wild Blue Yonder]]'' in 2006.

''[[Grizzly Man]]'', a documentary directed by Herzog, was awarded the [[Alfred P. Sloan Prize]] at the 2005 [[Sundance Film Festival]]. He seemed to attract danger even in more suburban settings. In 2006, Herzog was shot in the abdomen while on Skyline Drive in Los Angeles. He had been giving an interview on ''Grizzly Man'' to [[Mark Kermode]] of the [[BBC]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p031lbrw|title=BBC Arts – BBC Arts, Werner Herzog is shot by an air rifle in 2006|website=BBC|date=4 September 2015|access-date=6 November 2019|archive-date=6 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191106034016/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p031lbrw|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/how-werner-herzog-survived-being-28280 |title=How Werner Herzog survived being shot |website=The Hollywood Reporter |date=23 September 2010 |language=en |access-date=22 November 2019 |archive-date=6 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191106034017/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/how-werner-herzog-survived-being-28280 |url-status=live }}</ref> Herzog continued the interview without seeking medical treatment, stating "it's not significant". The shooter later turned out to be a crazed fan with an [[air rifle]]. Regarding the incident, Herzog later said, "I seem to attract the clinically insane." In a 2021 episode of ''Diminishing Returns'' podcast covering Herzog's film ''[[Stroszek]]'', presenter [[Dallas Campbell]] called this incident a hoax, claiming to be friends with the director of the piece and that the incident was "set up".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dimreturns.com/episodes/2021/1/18/242-stroszek|title=242 – Stroszek (with Dallas Campbell)|website=Diminishing Returns|date=18 January 2021|access-date=18 March 2021|archive-date=18 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210118142154/https://www.dimreturns.com/episodes/2021/1/18/242-stroszek|url-status=live}}</ref> <!--Delete incident with Phoenix; trivial part of the New Yorker article and the source did not say what the content here did.  -->

[[File:Werner Herzog Bruxelles 02 cropped.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Herzog at a press conference in Brussels, 2007]]
Herzog's April 2007 appearance at the [[Ebertfest]] in Champaign, Illinois, earned him the Golden Thumb Award, and an engraved [[glockenspiel]] given by a young film maker inspired by his films.{{citation needed|date=January 2024}} ''[[Encounters at the End of the World]]'', set in Antarctica, won the award for Best Documentary at the 2008 [[Edinburgh International Film Festival]] and was nominated for the [[Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature]], Herzog's first Oscar nomination.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/jun/30/edinburghfilmfestival.news | work=[[The Guardian]] | title=Shane Meadows' Somers Town takes top Edinburgh award | first=Ben | last=Child | date=30 June 2008 | access-date=24 January 2024}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2009|title=The 81st Academy Awards {{!}} 2009|website=www.oscars.org|date=7 October 2014 |language=en|access-date=2024-01-24}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/jan/26/werner-herzog-interview | work=[[The Guardian]] | title=Werner Herzog: Onstage at BFI Southbank, the iconoclastic director shares his feelings on being nominated for an Oscar for his new documentary Encounters at the End of the World, why he loves living in Los Angeles and why being in Antarctica was a profoundly odd experience | date=26 January 2009 | access-date=24 January 2024}}</ref> In 2009, Herzog became the only filmmaker in recent history to enter two films in competition in the same year at the [[Venice Film Festival]]. Herzog's ''[[Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans]]'' was entered into the festival's official competition schedule, and his ''[[My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?]]'' entered the competition as a "surprise film".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/filmNews/idUSTRE5841N320090905 |title=Filmmaker Herzog is up against himself in Venice &#124; Film |work=Reuters |date=5 September 2009 |access-date=25 October 2009 |archive-date=8 September 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090908182132/http://www.reuters.com/article/filmNews/idUSTRE5841N320090905? |url-status=live }}</ref> Herzog also provided the narration for the short film [[Plastic Bag (film)|''Plastic Bag'']], directed by [[Ramin Bahrani]], which was the opening night film in the Corto Cortissimo section of the festival.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/festival/lineup/official_selection/corto_cortissimo/bag.html |title=66th Venice Film Festival Corto Cortissimo |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006065315/http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/festival/lineup/official_selection/corto_cortissimo/bag.html |archive-date=6 October 2014}}</ref>

Herzog completed a documentary called ''[[Cave of Forgotten Dreams]]'' in 2010, which shows his journey into the [[Chauvet Cave]] in France. Although generally skeptical of [[3D film]] as a format,<ref>{{cite web|url-status=dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20141018140557/http://www.planet-mag.com/2010/features/alex-shephard/werner-herzog-interview/5/|archive-date=18 October 2014|url=http://www.planet-mag.com/2010/features/alex-shephard/werner-herzog-interview/ |title=Werner Herzog Interview &#124; PLANET° |publisher=Planet-mag.com |date=7 September 2010 |access-date=15 August 2013}}</ref> Herzog premiered the film at the [[2010 Toronto International Film Festival]] in 3-D and had its European premiere at the 2011 [[Berlin International Film Festival|Berlinale]]. Also in 2010, Herzog co-directed with Dimitry Vasuykov ''[[Happy People: A Year in the Taiga]]'', which portrays the life of fur [[Siberian fur trade|trapper]]s and their families in the [[Siberia]]n part of the [[Taiga]]; it premiered at the 2010 [[Telluride Film Festival]].<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Debruge|first1=Peter|date=2010-09-28|title=Happy People: A Year in the Taiga|url=https://variety.com/2010/film/reviews/happy-people-a-year-in-the-taiga-1117943738/|access-date=2020-10-20|website=Variety|language=en|archive-date=22 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022073025/https://variety.com/2010/film/reviews/happy-people-a-year-in-the-taiga-1117943738/|url-status=live}}</ref>
[[File:WERNER HERZOG star.jpg|thumb|''{{interlanguage link|Boulevard der Stars|de}}'' in [[Berlin]]|alt=Herzog's star on the ''{{interlanguage link|Boulevard der Stars|de}}'' in [[Berlin]]]]
Herzog has narrated many of his documentary films.

In 2011, Herzog competed with [[Ridley Scott]] to make a film based on the life of British explorer [[Gertrude Bell]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Dang|first=Simon|title=Watch Out, Ridley: Werner Herzog's Gertrude Bell Film Starring Naomi Watts Hoping To Shoot In The Fall|url=http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/watch-out-ridley-werner-herzogs-gertrude-bell-film-starring-naomi-watt-hoping-to-shoot-in-the-fall-20120520|work=IndieWire|access-date=25 November 2012|archive-date=17 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017170246/http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/watch-out-ridley-werner-herzogs-gertrude-bell-film-starring-naomi-watt-hoping-to-shoot-in-the-fall-20120520|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2012, it was confirmed that Herzog would start production on his long-in-development project in March 2013 in Morocco with [[Naomi Watts]] to play Gertrude Bell along with [[Robert Pattinson]] to play [[T. E. Lawrence]] and [[Jude Law]] to play [[Henry Cadogan]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Chitwood|first=Adam|title=Jude Law Joins Robert Pattinson and Naomi Watts in Werner Herzog's QUEEN OF THE DESERT|url=http://collider.com/jude-law-queen-of-the-desert/208459/|website=Collider|access-date=25 November 2012|archive-date=5 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105185811/http://collider.com/jude-law-queen-of-the-desert/208459|url-status=live}}</ref> The film was completed in 2014 with a different cast: [[Nicole Kidman]] as Gertrude Bell, [[James Franco]] as Henry Cadogan, [[Damian Lewis]] as Charles Doughty-Wylie, and [[Robert Pattinson]] as a 22-year-old archaeologist [[T. E. Lawrence]].'' [[Queen of the Desert (film)|Queen of the Desert]]'' had its world premiere at the 2015 [[Berlin International Film Festival]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Anderson |first=Matthew |date=February 6, 2015 |title=Queen of the Desert: Berlin Film Festival review |work=[[BBC]] |url=https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20150206-the-female-lawrence-of-arabia |access-date=January 30, 2023 |archive-date=30 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230130230439/https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20150206-the-female-lawrence-of-arabia |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[file:Werner Herzog Berlin 2015.jpg|thumb|upright|Herzog in 2015]]

In 2015, Herzog shot a feature film, ''[[Salt and Fire]]'', in [[Bolivia]], starring [[Veronica Ferres]], [[Michael Shannon]] and [[Gael García Bernal]]. It is described as a "highly explosive drama inspired by a short story by [[Tom Bissell]]".<ref>{{cite web|last=Raup|first=Jordan|title=Gael García Bernal Join Werner Herzog's 'Salt and Fire'|url=http://thefilmstage.com/news/michael-shannon-and-gael-garcia-bernal-join-werner-herzogs-salt-and-fire/|publisher=The Film Stage|access-date=13 August 2013|archive-date=12 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150312092231/http://thefilmstage.com/news/michael-shannon-and-gael-garcia-bernal-join-werner-herzogs-salt-and-fire/|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Acting and other endeavours ===

Dissatisfied with the way film schools are run, in 2009 Herzog founded his own Rogue Film School.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.roguefilmschool.com/about.asp |title=Werner Herzog's Rogue Film School |website=www.roguefilmschool.com |access-date=26 June 2016 |archive-date=8 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160708212432/http://www.roguefilmschool.com/about.asp |url-status=live }}</ref> For the students, Herzog has said, "I prefer people who have worked as bouncers in a sex club, or have been wardens in the lunatic asylum. You must live life in its very elementary forms. The Costa Ricans have a very nice word for it: ''pura vida''. It doesn't mean just purity of life, but the raw, stark-naked quality of life. And that's what makes young people more into a filmmaker than academia."<ref>{{cite web |last=Beggs |first=Scott |url=http://filmschoolrejects.com/features/6-filmmaking-tips-from-werner-herzog.php |title=6 FILMMAKING TIPS FROM WERNER HERZOG |publisher=[[Film School Rejects]] |date=12 September 2012 |access-date=13 August 2015 |archive-date=19 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150919042036/http://filmschoolrejects.com/features/6-filmmaking-tips-from-werner-herzog.php |url-status=dead }}</ref> Notable alumni include [[Keirda Bahruth]], Nir Sa'ar, [[Bob Baldori]], [[Sean Gill]], [[Frederick Kroetsch]], and [[George Hickenlooper]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Beggs |first=Scott |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/10/into-the-abyss-with-werner/ |title=Into the Abyss With Werner |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=10 February 2010 |access-date=16 February 2023 |archive-date=16 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230216172723/https://archive.nytimes.com/carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/10/into-the-abyss-with-werner/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Herzog was selected to be the president of the jury at the [[60th Berlin International Film Festival]] in 2010.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/presse/pressemitteilungen/alle/Alle-Detail_5364.html |title=Werner Herzog to be President of the Jury of the 60th Berlinale |access-date=22 December 2009 |work=berlinale.de |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091125161234/http://www.berlinale.de/en/presse/pressemitteilungen/alle/Alle-Detail_5364.html |archive-date=25 November 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thelocal.de/society/20091119-23385.html |title=Werner Herzog to head Berlin film festival jury |access-date=22 December 2009 |work=thelocal.de |archive-date=20 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091120175701/http://www.thelocal.de/society/20091119-23385.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8370440.stm |title=Werner Herzog is to head the Berlin Film Festival jury |access-date=22 December 2009 |work=[[BBC News]] |date=20 November 2009 |archive-date=23 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091123114011/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8370440.stm |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2010 he expanded his reach by performing a voiceover for an animated television program for the first time, appearing in ''[[The Boondocks (TV series)|The Boondocks]]'' in its third-season premiere episode "[[It's a Black President, Huey Freeman]]". In the episode, he played a fictional cameo of himself filming a documentary about the series' cast of characters and their actions during the 2008 election of [[Barack Obama]].{{Citation needed|date=April 2020}}

Continuing with voice work, Herzog played Walter Hotenhoffer (formerly known as [[List of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory characters#Augustus Gloop|Augustus Gloop]]) in ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode "[[The Scorpion's Tale]]", which aired in March 2011. The next year, he also appeared in the [[American Dad! (season 8)|8th-season]] episode of ''[[American Dad!]]'', called "[[Ricky Spanish]]". He lent his voice to a recurring character during the [[Metalocalypse (season 4)|4th season]] of the [[Adult Swim]] animated series ''[[Metalocalypse]]''. In 2015 he voiced a guest character Old Reptile, an affiliate of Shrimply Pibbles for Adult Swim's ''[[Rick and Morty]]''.<ref>{{Citation |title=Rick and Morty (TV Series 2013– ) – IMDb |url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2861424/characters/nm0001348 |access-date=2023-01-07 |archive-date=7 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230107164310/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2861424/characters/nm0001348 |url-status=live }}</ref>

He appeared in person opposite [[Tom Cruise]] as the villain Zec Chelovek in the 2012 action film ''[[Jack Reacher (film)|Jack Reacher]]''. Herzog gained attention in 2013 when he released a 35-minute [[Public Service Announcement]]-style documentary, ''From One Second to the Next'', demonstrating the danger of texting while driving and financed by [[AT&T]], [[Sprint Corporation|Sprint]], [[Verizon]], and [[T-Mobile US|T-Mobile]] as part of their ''It Can Wait'' driver safety campaign. The film, which documents four stories in which texting and driving led to tragedy or death, initially received more than 1.7 million YouTube views and was subsequently distributed to over 40,000 high schools.<ref>{{cite web |last=Leopold |first=Todd |title=Film legend Herzog takes on texting and driving |url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/16/tech/mobile/werner-herzog-texting-driving/ |publisher=[[CNN]] |date=16 August 2013 |access-date=13 August 2015 |archive-date=24 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924163105/http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/16/tech/mobile/werner-herzog-texting-driving/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In July 2013, Herzog contributed to an art installation entitled "Hearsay of the Soul", for the Whitney Biennial, which was later acquired as a permanent exhibit by the [[J. Paul Getty Museum]] in Los Angeles. In late 2013 he voiced some of the English-language dub of [[Hayao Miyazaki]]'s ''[[The Wind Rises]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Lattanzio|first1=Ryan|date=2013-12-18|title=English-Language Voice Cast for 'The Wind Rises' Includes Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emily Blunt and Werner Herzog|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2013/12/english-language-voice-cast-for-the-wind-rises-includes-joseph-gordon-levitt-emily-blunt-and-werner-herzog-194557/|access-date=2020-10-20|website=IndieWire|language=en|archive-date=22 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201122123821/https://www.indiewire.com/2013/12/english-language-voice-cast-for-the-wind-rises-includes-joseph-gordon-levitt-emily-blunt-and-werner-herzog-194557/|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2019, Herzog joined the cast of the [[Disney+]] live action ''[[Star Wars]]'' television series ''[[The Mandalorian]]'', portraying  "[[The Client (Star Wars)|The Client]]", a character with nebulous connections to the [[Galactic Empire (Star Wars)|Empire]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Smail |first=Gretchen |title=Werner Herzog's 'The Mandalorian' Character Is The Next Great 'Star Wars' Villain |work=[[Bustle (website)|Bustle]] |date=12 November 2019 |url=https://www.bustle.com/p/werner-herzogs-the-mandalorian-character-is-the-next-great-star-wars-villain-19344045 |access-date=27 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200127044709/https://www.bustle.com/p/werner-herzogs-the-mandalorian-character-is-the-next-great-star-wars-villain-19344045 |archive-date=27 January 2020 |url-status=live }}</ref> Herzog accepted the role after being impressed with the screenplay,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Werner Herzog praises new 'Star Wars' series 'Mandalorian' – YouTube|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wreLS1luB8I&feature=youtu.be |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/wreLS1luB8I| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live|access-date=2020-07-17|website=www.youtube.com| date=4 May 2019 }}{{cbignore}}</ref> although he said he had never seen any of the ''Star Wars'' films.<ref>{{cite news |last=Roxborough |first=Scott |title=Werner Herzog Talks Cannes Entry, 'The Mandalorian' Role |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |date=18 May 2019 |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/werner-herzog-talks-role-star-wars-series-mandalorian-1212001 |access-date=27 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191215063959/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/werner-herzog-talks-role-star-wars-series-mandalorian-1212001 |archive-date=15 December 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In June 2022, Herzog published his debut novel, titled ''[[The Twilight World]]'', telling the story of [[Hiroo Onoda]], a Japanese soldier who had refused to surrender for decades while hiding in the jungle of a Philippine island. Herzog had met Onoda in Tokyo more than two decades before, and the two had discussed the jungle. Herzog had used jungles as settings of many of his important works.
Onoda, a WWII Japanese soldier who was deployed in 1944 to [[Lubang Island|Lubang]], a small Philippine Island, where he conducted warfare for twenty-nine years. After receiving orders to "hold his position", his commander promised that someone would return for him, but as the years went by, it was clear that he was forgotten.

Herzog said his novel was a fictional account of Hiroo Onoda's ordeal of being stranded in a jungle fighting a war that had officially ended. He has said, "Most details are factually correct; some are not".<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=2022-06-16 |title=Werner Herzog's Wondrous Novel of Nothingness in the Jungle |url=https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/werner-herzogs-wondrous-novel-of-nothingness-in-the-jungle |access-date=2022-06-20 |magazine=The New Yorker |language=en-US |archive-date=20 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220620125028/https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/werner-herzogs-wondrous-novel-of-nothingness-in-the-jungle |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=Review {{!}} Werner Herzog's first novel revisits fanaticism and human folly |language=en-US |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2022/06/16/werner-herzog-book-twilight-world/ |access-date=2022-06-20 |issn=0190-8286 |archive-date=27 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220627041118/https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2022/06/16/werner-herzog-book-twilight-world/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Schillinger |first=Liesl |date=2022-06-10 |title=Two Men of the Jungle Meet in Herzog's First Novel |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/10/books/review/twilight-world-werner-herzog-hiroo-onoda.html |access-date=2022-06-20 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=20 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220620200858/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/10/books/review/twilight-world-werner-herzog-hiroo-onoda.html |url-status=live }}</ref>