Werner Herzog and Extreme Cinema Vision

Werner Herzog

German-born film director, screenwriter, actor, opera director, and author. A key figure in "New German Cinema" representing postwar German film, he is known for works depicting grand nature and human obsession, madness, and solitude in extreme conditions. His representative works include "Aguirre, the Wrath of God" (1972), "The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser" (1974), "Fitzcarraldo" (1982), and the documentary film "Grizzly Man" (2005).

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Year	Werner Herzog
1939	World War II (Age: 3 years before birth, Period: 1939–1945, Location: Britain, North Africa, Mediterranean region, etc.)
1942	Childhood in Sachrang (Period: 1942 – Mid-1950s, Location: Sachrang, Bavaria, Germany) Allied Air Raids on Munich and Family Evacuation (Period: September 1942 Onward, During World War II, Location: Munich, Germany and Sachrang, Bavaria) Birth of Werner Herzog (Period: September 5, 1942, Location: Munich, Germany (Munich, Bavaria, Federal Republic of Germany))
1960	Rise of New German Cinema (Age: 17 years old, Period: 1960s–1980s, Location: German-speaking Region, Centered on West Germany) Continued Career as a Film Director and Author (Age: 17 years old, Period: 1960s – Present (2026), Location: Film Shooting Locations in Germany, United States, and Worldwide)
1962	Departure for Filmmaking (Age: 19 years old, Period: 1962–1968, Location: Munich, Germany, etc.)
1970	Collaboration and Conflict with Klaus Kinski (Age: 27 years old, Period: 1970s–1980s; Retrospective Work in 1999, Location: Film Shooting Locations in Germany, Peru, Brazil, etc.)
1972	Production of 'Aguirre, the Wrath of God' (Age: 29 years old, Period: 1972, Location: Amazon Region of Peru, etc.)
1974	Acclaim for 'The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser' (Age: 31 years old, Period: 1974, Location: West Germany)
1982	Production of 'Fitzcarraldo' (Age: 39 years old, Period: 1982, Location: Amazon Region of Peru)
1985	Marriage (Werner Herzog and Martje Grohmann, Age: 42 years old, Period: Married 1967, Divorced 1985, Location: Details Unconfirmed in Public Information)
1990	Gulf War (Age: 47 years old, Period: 1990–1991, Location: Around Kuwait, Iraq, the Persian Gulf)
1992	Release of 'Lessons of Darkness' (Age: 49 years old, Period: 1992, Location: Kuwait)
1997	Marriage (Werner Herzog and Christine Maria Ebenberger, Age: 54 years old, Period: Married 1987, Divorced 1997, Location: Details Unconfirmed in Public Information)
1999	Marriage (Werner Herzog and Lena Pisetski, Age: 56 years old, Period: Married 1999, Location: Details Unconfirmed in Public Information)
2005	Release of 'Grizzly Man' (Age: 62 years old, Period: 2005, Location: Around Katmai, Alaska, United States)
2010	Release of 'Cave of Forgotten Dreams' (Age: 67 years old, Period: Filmed 2010, Released 2010, Location: Chauvet Cave, Southern France)
2026	Death of Werner Herzog (Age: 84 years old, Period: Alive as of October 2026)

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The Division of Germany	Konrad Adenauer Walter Ulbricht Otto Grotewohl Wilhelm Pieck Erich Honecker Willy Brandt Helmut Kohl
Prague Spring	Ludvík Svoboda Josef Smrkovský Ludvík Vaculík Alexander Dubček Václav Havel Milan Kundera Oldřich Černík
Fall of the Berlin Wall	Erich Honecker Helmut Kohl Mikhail Gorbachev Egon Rudi Ernst Krenz Günter Schabowski Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm
Literature and Thought	Václav Havel Milan Kundera Czesław Miłosz Wisława Szymborska Günter Grass Heinrich Böll Thomas Bernhard Ingeborg Bachmann Elfriede Jelinek
Arts & Film	Sándor Pál Andrzej Wajda Krzysztof Kieślowski Miloš Forman Jiří Menzel Werner Herzog Rainer Werner Fassbinder Wim Wenders

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