He started to embark on long journeys, some on foot. ДЄt an early age, he experienced a dramatic phase in which he converted to Catholicism, which only lasted a few years. For several years Herzog listened to no music, sang no songs, and studied no instruments, but when he turned eighteen he immersed himself in music with particular intensity. Herzog, aged thirteen, was told by a bullying music teacher to sing in front of his class at school in an effort, Herzog said, 'to break my back.' When he adamantly refused he was almost expelled. Herzog says that when he eventually met his father again, 'fairly late in life', his mother had to translate Werner's German into the Bavarian dialect which his father spoke so the two could communicate. Herzog made his first phone-call when he was seventeen two years later, he started work on his first film, Herakles. Herzog later adopted his father's surname Herzog (German for 'duke'), which he thought sounded more impressive for a filmmaker. His father had abandoned the family early in his youth. When Herzog was twelve, he and his family moved back to Munich. He never saw films, and did not even know of the existence of cinema until a traveling projectionist came by the one-room schoolhouse in Sachrang. He recounted, 'we had no toys, we had no tools', and said that there was a sense of anarchy, as all the children's fathers were absent. In Sachrang, Herzog grew up without running water, a flushing toilet, or a telephone. When Herzog 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 an Allied bombing raid in World War II. Herzog was born Werner Stipetich in Munich, Germany, to Elisabeth Stipetich, an Austrian of Croatian descent, and Dietrich Herzog, a German. 1.3.1 Sloan Prize and Air Rifle Shooting.Even his failures are spectacular.' He was named one of the world's 100 most influential people by Time magazine in 2009. He has published more than a dozen books of prose, and directed as many operas.ДЇrench filmmaker FranГ§ois 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. Since then he has produced, written, and directed more than sixty feature films and documentaries, such as Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974), Heart of Glass (1976), Stroszek (1977), Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979), Fitzcarraldo (1982), Cobra Verde (1987), Lessons of Darkness (1992), Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997), My Best Fiend (1999), Invincible (2000), Grizzly Man (2005), Encounters at the End of the World (2007), Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009), and Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010).

Herzog started work on his first film Herakles in 1961, when he was nineteen.

He is known for his unique filmmaking process, such as disregarding storyboards, emphasizing improvisation, and placing the cast and crew into similar situations as characters in his films. His films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams, people with unique talents in obscure fields, or individuals in conflict with nature. Werner Herzog ( German: born 5 September 1942) is a German film director, screenwriter, author, actor, and opera director, regarded as a pioneer of New German Cinema. Recorded March 2012 from the BBC Radio 4 programme Start the Week

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