Editing Werner Herzog (section)

=== 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>