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| website = |module = }} Werner Herzog Stipetić (; born 5 September 1942), known as Werner Herzog, is a German film director, producer, screenwriter, author, actor and opera director. Herzog is considered one of the greatest figures of the New German Cinema, along with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schlöndorff, Werner Schröter, and Wim Wenders. Herzog's films often feature heroes with impossible dreams,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=40 Great Actor & Director Partnerships: Klaus Kinski & Werner Herzog )〕 people with unique talents in obscure fields, or individuals who are in conflict with nature.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Werner Herzog and his film language )〕 French filmmaker François Truffaut once called Herzog "the most important film director alive." American film critic Roger Ebert said that Herzog "has never created a single film that is compromised, shameful, made for pragmatic reasons or uninteresting. Even his failures are spectacular."〔Ebert, Roger (2006). ''Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert'', University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0226182002〕 He was named one of the 100 most influential people on the planet by Time Magazine in 2009.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The 2009 TIME 100 )〕 ==Early life== Herzog was born Werner Stipetić in Munich to Elizabeth Stipetić, an Austrian of Croatian descent. Werner's father, Dietrich Herzog, was German. When Werner 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 a bombing raid at the close of World War II. In Sachrang, Herzog grew up without running water, a flush toilet, or a telephone. He never saw films, and didn't even know of the existence of cinema until a traveling projectionist came by the one-room schoolhouse in Sachrang. When Herzog was 12, he and his family moved back to Munich. His father had abandoned the family early in his youth. Werner later adopted his father's surname ''Herzog'' (German for "duke"), which he thought sounded more impressive for a filmmaker. The same year, Herzog was told to sing in front of his class at school, and he adamantly refused. He was almost expelled. Until he was age eighteen, Herzog listened to no music, sang no songs, and studied no instruments. He later said that he would easily give ten years from his life to be able to play the cello. At an early age, he experienced a dramatic phase in which he converted to Catholicism, which only lasted a few years. He started to embark on long journeys, some of them 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 35 mm camera he stole from the Munich Film School.〔Bissell, Tom. "The Secret Mainstream: Contemplating the mirages of Werner Herzog," ''Harper's,'' December 2006〕 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." He won a scholarship to Duquesne University and lasted only a few days, but lived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. During his last years of high school, no production company was willing to take on his projects, so Herzog worked night shifts as a welder in a steel factory to earn the funds for his first featurettes. After graduating from high school, he was intrigued by the Congo after its independence, but only reached the south of the Sudan where he fell seriously ill. While already making films, he had a brief stint at Munich University, where he studied history and literature. He earned money by participating in preproduction of a documentary for NASA with KQED. Summoned to the immigration office because of violation of his visa status, he chose to flee to Mexico. Before leaving school, he bought a house in the UK, in what was likely the Moss Side area of Manchester. There he learned to speak English. In 1962, he made his first short film, Herakles. In school there was an emphasis on Latin and Greek, in which he continues to read to this day. 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 canceled due to a last-minute change in itinerary. The plane was later struck by lightning and disintegrated, but one survivor lived after a free fall. Long haunted by the event, nearly 30 years later he made a documentary film ''Wings of Hope'' (2000) about it, which explored the story of the sole survivor Juliane Koepcke. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Werner Herzog」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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