Skip to content
FREE SHIPPING ON ALL DOMESTIC ORDERS $35+
FREE SHIPPING ON ALL US ORDERS $35+
Werner Herzog: Interviews - Paperback | Diverse Reads

Werner Herzog: Interviews

Availability:
in stock, ready to be shipped
$30.00 - $30.00
$30.00
$43.99
$43.99 - $43.99
$43.99
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 the best of these, focusing on all the major films, from Signs of Life and Aguirre, the Wrath of God to Grizzly Man and Cave of Forgotten Dreams. When did Herzog decide to become a filmmaker? Who are his key influences? Where does he find his peculiar themes and characters? What role does music play in his films? How does he see himself in relation to the German past and in relation to film history? And how did he ever survive the wrath of Klaus Kinski? Herzog answers these and many other questions in twenty-five interviews ranging from the 1960s to the present. Critics and fans recognized Herzog's importance as a young German filmmaker early on, but his films have attained international significance over the decades. Most of the interviews collected in this volume--some of them from Herzog's production archive and previously unpublished--appear in English for the very first time. Together, they offer an unprecedented look at Herzog's work, his career, and his public persona as it has developed and changed over time. ERIC AMES, Seattle, Washington, is associate professor of German and a member of the cinema studies faculty at the University of Washington. He is the author of Ferocious Reality: Documentary according to Werner Herzog and Carl Hagenbeck's Empire of Entertainments.

ISBN-13: 9781496802514

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: University Press of Mississippi

Publication Date: 02-10-2015

Pages: 193

Product Dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

Series: Conversations with Filmmakers (Hardcover)

Eric Ames is associate professor of German and a member of the cinema studies faculty at the University of Washington. He is author of Ferocious Reality: Documentary according to Werner Herzog and Carl Hagenbeck's Empire of Entertainments.

Table of Contents

Introduction xi

Chronology xvii

Filmography xxiii

Platform for the Young German Film: Werner Herzog Frieda Grafe Enno Patalas Florian Fricke / 1968 3

Hope for Berlin Film in Berlin /1968 10

South American Experiences: A Conversation with Werner Herzog on Aguirre, the Wrath of God Peter Schumann /1973 12

Werner Herzog: "Like a Powerful Dream…" Nouteddine Ghali /1973 18

Every Man for Himself and God against All: A Conversation with Werner Herzog on The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser Hans Günther Pflaum /1974 24

Interview with Werner Herzog Kraft Wetzel /1976 29

Hypnosis as Means of Stylization: An Interview with Werner Herzog Horst Wiedemann /1976 42

Interview with Werner Herzog Eric de Saint-Angel /1978 47

Interview with Werner Herzog on Nosferatu Simon Mizrahi /1979 52

Interview with Werner Herzog on the American Reception of His Films Jörg Bundschuh Christian Bauer /1979 56

Fitzcarraldo: A Conversation with Werner Herzog Bion Steinborn Rüdiger von Naso /1982 59

Interview with Werner Herzog on Where the Green Ants Dream Simon Mizrahi /1984 82

Discussion with Werner Herzog on Staging His First Opera David Knaus Beat Presser /1985 92

Cobra Verde Jean-Pierre Lavoignat /1987 100

The Mirror of Bangui: According to Werner Herzog, Echoes from a Sombre Empire Is Not a Documentary on Bokassa but a Portrait of Us All Daniele Heymann /1990 106

Interview with Werner Herzog on Lessons of Darkness Alexander Schwarz /1993 109

Werner Herzog Edgar Reitz /1995 115

Werner Herzog in Conversation with Geoffrey O'Brien Geoffrey O'Brien /1996 125

Revolver Interview: Werner Herzog Daniel Sponsel Jan Sebenig /1998 136

The Wrath of Klaus Kinski: An Interview with Werner Herzog A. G. Basoli/1999 147

A More Athletic Approach: An Interview with Werner Herzog on Grizzly Man Cynthia Fuchs / 2005 155

"I've Never Stood Still": A Conversation with Werner Herzog Dietmar Kammerer /2007 160

Defiant Werner Herzog to Defamer: "Who Is Abel Ferrara?" Gawker.com /2008 164

Q&A: Werner Herzog Daniel Trilling / 2009 166

Out of the Darkness: Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams Samuel Wigley /2011 172

Key Resources 181

Index 183