Editing Werner Herzog (section)

==Personal life==
Herzog has been married three times and has three children. In 1967, he married Martje Grohmann and they had a son named Rudolph Amos Achmed (born 1973).<ref>LCRO Standesamt Bayern Muenchen</ref> They divorced in 1985.<ref>Standesamt Bayern Muenchen</ref> He later began dating Austrian-German actress [[Eva Mattes]], and they had a daughter named Hanna Mattes (born 1980) before splitting up.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2002/mar/30/books.guardianreview |title=The Guardian Profile: The enigma of Werner H |last=O'Mahony |first=John |date=30 March 2002 |website=theguardian.com |access-date=21 March 2019 |archive-date=12 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220112233918/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2002/mar/30/books.guardianreview |url-status=live }}</ref> He married Christine Maria Ebenberger in 1987,<ref>LCRO Standesamt Wien Landstrasse</ref> and they had a son named Simon (born 1989).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.herzog.io/|title=Procedural art|website=Simon Herzog|access-date=7 August 2020|archive-date=23 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200923034444/https://www.herzog.io/|url-status=live}}</ref> They divorced in 1997.<ref>Standesamt Wien Landstrasse</ref> Herzog moved to Los Angeles in 1996 and married Russian-American photographer [[Lena Herzog|Elena Pisetski]] in 1999.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.biography.com/people/werner-herzog-21239203 |title=Werner Herzog Biography |last=Lee |first=Jade |publisher=Biography |date=6 March 2018 |website=biography.com |access-date=21 March 2019 |archive-date=20 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190320215203/https://www.biography.com/people/werner-herzog-21239203 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Herzog is a voracious reader. As required reading for the Rogue Film School, he has listed [[J. A. Baker]]'s ''The Peregrine'', [[Virgil]]'s ''[[Georgics]]'', and [[Ernest Hemingway]]'s ''[[The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber]]''. Suggested reading includes the ''[[Poetic Edda]]'' as translated from [[Old Norse]] by Lee M. Hollander, [[Bernal Díaz del Castillo]]'s ''[[Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España]]'' (''The True History of the Conquest of New Spain''), and the 888-page report published by the [[Warren Commission|President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Werner Herzog's Rogue Film School |url=http://www.roguefilmschool.com/about.asp |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>

Herzog has been described as an [[atheist]].<ref>"Herzog is an avowed atheist, but in a certain sense his films, especially in recent years, have become highly spiritual in focus. Due to its subject and its characters "Into the Abyss" is suffused with a Christian religiosity that the director treats with great respect." Andrew O'Hehir, ''Salon.com'', 11 November 2011. [http://www.salon.com/topic/werner_herzog/] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170607054152/http://www.salon.com/topic/werner_herzog/|date=7 June 2017}}</ref> In addition to standard German and his native Bavarian, he speaks English, French, Greek, Italian and Spanish.<ref>{{youTube|6pY-0JfEdLY|Werner Herzog on Languages ...}}</ref> He can also read [[Latin language|Latin]] and [[Ancient Greek]].<ref name="YouTube-2" />