Werner Herzog, Who Recorded the Audio Version of His Memoir, Insists His Words Will Outlive His Movies
variety.comPeter Debruge Chief Film Critic Werner Herzog has traveled to the ends of the earth for his art, rolling cameras in places rarely seen by human eyes — from rapids along the Amazon River for 1972’s “Aguirre, the Wrath of God” to the rim of an active volcano in Antarctica.
But what’s inside Herzog’s head is what fascinates fans of the German director. As revealed in a new memoir, “Every Man for Himself and God Against All” (the phrase served as the original title of his 1974 film “The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser”), Herzog’s far-ranging filmography represents only a fraction of the encounters and adventures that have shaped his worldview.
The book came easily, or so he insists as we huddle in a quiet corner of the Montrose, Colo. airport following the Telluride Film Festival. “It could have been five times as long, but now it’s only 350 pages.
I will not kill you with the weight of stories,” he says of the manuscript, which he wrote in his native German, then entrusted poet Michael Hofmann to translate.
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