Horizon Information Portal

e-branch

Home

My Account/Renew Loans

Find Magazine Articles & more

Every man for himself and God against all : a memoir / Werner Herzog ; translated by Michael Hofmann

by Herzog, Werner, 1942-

View full image

Penguin Press, 2023.

791.430233 H582e

Herzog, Werner, 1942-

Motion picture producers and directors -- Germany -- Biography.

9780593490297 (hc.)

355 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

"Originally published in German as: Jeder für Sich und Gott Gegen Alle by Carl Hanser Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, München"--T. p. verso

Translated from the German

Includes filmography (pages 341-351) and a list of the opera productions he directed (pages 353-355),

"Werner Herzog was born in September 1942 in Munich, Germany, at a turning point in the Second World War. Soon Germany would be defeated and a new world would have to be made out the rubble and horrors of the war. Fleeing the Allied bombing raids, Herzog’s mother took him and his older brother to a remote, rustic part of Bavaria where he would spend much of his childhood hungry, without running water, in deep poverty. It was there, as the new postwar order was emerging, that one of the most visionary filmmakers of the next seven decades was formed. Until age 11, Herzog did not even know of the existence of cinema. His interest in films began at age 15, but since no one was willing to finance them, he worked the night shift as a welder in a steel factory. He started to travel on foot. He made his first phone call at age 17, and his first film in 1961 at age 19. The wildly productive working life that followed -- spanning the seven continents and encompassing both documentary and fiction -- was an adventure as grand and otherworldly as any depicted in his many classic films. 'Every Man for Himself and God Against All' is at once a personal record of one of the great and self-invented lives of our time, and a singular literary masterpiece that will enthrall fans old and new alike. In a hypnotic swirl of memory, Herzog untangles and relives his most important experiences and inspirations, telling his story for the first and only time."--From publisher.

Autobiographies.

Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.

Horizon Information Portal