Werner Herzog
25.8.22 – 8.5.23
General information
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Exhibition catalog
Werner Herzog is cult! He has been imitated on social media more than almost any other director. He guest-starred on ‘The Simpsons’ several times, and helped draw attention to the Star Wars series ‘The Mandalorian’ when he played its villain. ‘Time Magazine’ named Herzog one of 2009’s most influential people.
In around 70 feature films and documentaries to date, Herzog has created an extraordinary visual canon, far surpassing what audiences are accustomed to seeing at the cinema. His oeuvre spans feature films of New German Cinema and Hollywood productions with stars such as Nicole Kidman and Christian Bale, as well as willfully unorthodox documentaries. He has frequently worked as an actor; he has written books (most recently ‘The Twilight World’, 2022); and founded the Rogue Film School. Herzog is constantly searching for “ecstatic truth” – a truth not bound by facts – that delves deeper than reality.
A polarizing figure, Werner Herzog challenges his audiences. His work has consistently provoked controversial debates between widely diverging factions throughout his career. This exhibition aims to introduce his multilayered oeuvre to a broad public while critically reassessing it. It builds on the extensive Werner Herzog Archive housed at the Deutsche Kinemathek, opening up many new ways to approach Herzog’s work.
Credits
Credits
Artistic Director, Board of Directors: Rainer Rother
Administrative Director, Board of Directors: Florian Bolenius
Curator: Kristina Jaspers
Media curators: Georg Simbeni, Nils Warnecke
Project manager: Peter Mänz
Exhibition coordinator: Vera Thomas
Student assistants: Magnus Knoll, Amber Lynn Harper
Exhibition architecture and graphics, production supervision: Vera Franke, Franke | Steinert, Berlin
Jungle motifs: Oliver Standke, seefood productions
Comic drawings: Reinhard Kleist, reinhard-kleist.de
Exhibition construction: Camillo Kuschel Ausstellungsdesign, Berlin
Graphic production: reproplan Berlin
Editing of audiovisual media: Stanislaw Milkowski, CONCEPT AV, Berlin
Digital Canvases: Active Image, Berlin
Tablet programming: Oliver Brzoska
Technical services: Frank Köppke, Roberti Siefert
Lighting and media installations: Stephan Werner
Audio guide: Linon Medien, Berlin
Editing: Claudia Lüdtke
English translations: Wendy Wallis, Moira Barrett
Reproductions: d’mage, Berlin
Conservational supervision (paper): Katharina Siedler
Head of Communications: Friederike Zobel
Advertising graphics: FÜNFZEHN
Press: Heidi Berit Zapke
Marketing: Linda Mann
Social Media: Jonas Malte Scheler
Website: Julia Pattis, Theresa Spreckelsen
Educational services: Jurek Sehrt, Theresa Spreckelsen, Thomas Zandegiacomo
Finance: Frank Namyslik (head), Sybille Büttner, Sebastian Thiel
Acknowledgements
Ulrich Bergfelder, Sebastian López Borda, Liliana Díaz Castillo, Cora Frost, Henning von Gierke, Lena Herzog, Bernhard von Hülsen, Beate Mainka- Jellinghaus, Thomas Mauch, Clive Oppenheimer, Joshua Oppenheimer, Beat Presser, Anja Schmidt-Zäringer, Gisela Storch-Pestalozza, Thomas von Steinaecker, Peter Zeitlinger, Chloé Zhao.
We especially thank Lucki Stipetić, who showed great understanding for all our concerns and proved always reliable and helpful.
In addition, our thanks go to all our colleagues at the Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen