94-441: Klaus Kinski ( German: [klaʊs ˈkɪnskiː] , born Klaus Günter Karl Nakszynski 18 October 1926 – 23 November 1991) was a German actor. Equally renowned for his intense performance style and notorious for his volatile personality, he appeared in over 130 film roles in a career that spanned 40 years, from 1948 to 1988. He is best known for starring in five films directed by Werner Herzog from 1972 to 1987 ( Aguirre,
188-436: A 1982 interview with Roger Ebert , he explained that "We do not have adequate images for our kind of civilization...We are surrounded by images that are worn out, and I believe that unless we discover new images, we will die out." He has said it is his mission to help us discover new images: "I am trying to make something that has not been made before." He is proud of never using storyboards and often improvising large parts of
282-459: A 35-minute Public Service Announcement -style documentary, From One Second to the Next , demonstrating the danger of texting while driving and financed by AT&T , Sprint , Verizon , and T-Mobile as part of their It Can Wait driver safety campaign. The film, which documents four stories in which texting and driving led to tragedy or death, initially received more than 1.7 million YouTube views and
376-546: A German U-boat but arrived safely. In his documentary My Best Fiend , Werner Herzog claimed that Kinski had fabricated much of his 1988 autobiography, including claims of maternal sexual abuse , incest , and childhood poverty; according to Herzog, Kinski was actually raised in a financially stable upper middle class family. While interned at Berechurch Hall in Colchester, Kinski played his first roles on stage, taking part in variety shows intended to maintain morale among
470-582: A Japanese soldier who had refused to surrender for decades while hiding in the jungle of a Philippine island. Herzog had met Onoda in Tokyo more than two decades before, and the two had discussed the jungle. Herzog had used jungles as settings of many of his important works. Onoda, a WWII Japanese soldier who was deployed in 1944 to Lubang , a small Philippine Island, where he conducted warfare for twenty-nine years. After receiving orders to "hold his position", his commander promised that someone would return for him, but as
564-546: A crazed fan with an air rifle . Regarding the incident, Herzog later said, "I seem to attract the clinically insane." In a 2021 episode of Diminishing Returns podcast covering Herzog's film Stroszek , presenter Dallas Campbell called this incident a hoax, claiming to be friends with the director of the piece and that the incident was "set up". Herzog's April 2007 appearance at the Ebertfest in Champaign, Illinois, earned him
658-465: A diary that would eventually be published as Of Walking in Ice . Eight years later, the 87-year-old Eisner allegedly complained to Herzog of her infirmities and told him, "I am saturated with life. There is still this spell upon me that I must not die—can you lift it?" He says that he agreed to do so, and she died eight days later. Werner Herzog moved to Los Angeles with his wife in the late 1990s. He said of
752-613: A documentary directed by Herzog, was awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival . He seemed to attract danger even in more suburban settings. In 2006, Herzog was shot in the abdomen while on Skyline Drive in Los Angeles. He had been giving an interview on Grizzly Man to Mark Kermode of the BBC . Herzog continued the interview without seeking medical treatment, stating "it's not significant". The shooter later turned out to be
846-474: A family member is a form of incest , which can result in severe long-term psychological trauma , especially in the case of parental incest. Globally, approximately 18–19% of women and 8% of men disclose being sexually abused during their childhood. The gender gap may be caused by higher victimization of girls, lower willingness of men to disclose abuse, or both. Most sexual abuse offenders are acquainted with their victims; approximately 30% are relatives of
940-582: 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 . 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". During Herzog's last years of high school, no production company
1034-570: A filmmaker. Herzog made his first phone call when he was seventeen; two years later, he started work on his first film, Herakles . 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, 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
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#17328986320711128-629: A gun on Kinski, or at least threatened to do so, on the set of Aguirre, the Wrath of God, after the actor threatened to walk off the set. Late in the filming of Fitzcarraldo in Peru, the chief of the Machiguenga tribe offered to kill Kinski for Herzog, but the director declined. In 1980, Kinski refused the lead villain role of Major Arnold Toht in Raiders of the Lost Ark , telling director Steven Spielberg that
1222-552: A living victim of sexual abuse or assault. For example, there are the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests and The Survivors Trust . Sexual misconduct can occur where one person uses a position of authority to compel another person to engage in an otherwise unwanted sexual activity. For example, sexual harassment in the workplace might involve an employee being coerced into a sexual situation out of fear of being dismissed. Sexual harassment in education might involve
1316-567: A number of Hispanic victims were included in the settlement of a massive sexual abuse case involving the Los Angeles archdiocese of the Catholic Church . A qualitative study by Kim et al. discusses the experiences of sexual abuse in the US population of Mexican immigrant women, citing immigration, acculturation, and several other social elements as risk factors for abuse. Captive breeding activities are sometimes described as sexual abuse. People for
1410-411: A number of eccentric creative endeavors, including a one-man show based on the life of Jesus Christ , a biopic of violinist Niccolò Paganini directed by and starring himself, and over twenty spoken word albums. Kinski was prone to emotional and often violent outbursts aimed at his directors and fellow cast members, issues complicated by a history of mental illness . Herzog described him as "one of
1504-613: A pharmacist, while his mother, Susanne Lutze, was a nurse and the daughter of a local pastor. He had three older siblings; Inge, Arne and Hans-Joachim. Due to the Great Depression , his family was unable to make a living in Danzig and moved to Berlin in 1931, where they also experienced financial difficulties. The family settled in an apartment in the Schöneberg district of the city and acquired German citizenship . In 1936, he began attending
1598-538: A pioneer of New German Cinema , his films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams, people with unusual talents in obscure fields, or individuals in conflict with nature. His style involves avoiding storyboards , emphasizing improvisation, and placing his cast and crew into real situations mirroring those in the film they are working on. In 1961, when Herzog was 19, he started work on his first film Herakles . He has since produced, written, and directed over 60 films and documentaries such as Aguirre,
1692-638: A primary or exclusive sexual interest in prepubescent children. People with developmental disabilities are often victims of sexual abuse. According to research, people with disabilities are at a greater risk for victimization of sexual assault or sexual abuse because of lack of understanding (Sobsey & Varnhagen, 1989). Elderly people, especially those with dementia, can be at risk of abuse. There were over 6,000 "safeguarding concerns and alerts" at UK care homes from 2013 to 2015. These included alleged inappropriate touching and worse allegations. Offenders were most often other residents but staff also offended. It
1786-401: A room every time he opens his mouth or make eye contact; he adopts a stance of exalted calm, as though he has achieved some kind of mastery – not just over his own mind, but over the capriciousness of the world" ". Lessons ranged from "How does music function in film?" to "The creation of your own shooting permits". In 2018, he held "Filming in Peru with Werner Herzog", a twelve-day workshop in
1880-472: A short documentary, Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe , by Les Blank . Herzog suggested that he hoped the act would serve to encourage anyone having difficulty bringing a project to fruition. In the winter of 1974, German-French writer Lotte H. Eisner (a friend and mentor of Herzog since the late 1950s) fell gravely ill; Herzog walked from Munich to Paris , believing that she would not die if he did so. During these travels, which took him three weeks, he kept
1974-459: A single film that is compromised, shameful, made for pragmatic reasons, or uninteresting. Even his failures are spectacular". He was named one of the world's 100 most influential people by Time in 2009. Herzog was born Werner Stipetić in Munich , German Reich on 5 September 1942, the son of Elisabeth Stipetić and Dietrich Herzog. His mother was Austrian with Croatian ancestry, while his father
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#17328986320712068-469: A son named Simon (born 1989). They divorced in 1997. Herzog moved to Los Angeles in 1996 and married Russian-American photographer Elena Pisetski in 1999. Herzog is a voracious reader. As required reading for the Rogue Film School, he has listed J. A. Baker 's The Peregrine , Virgil 's Georgics , and Ernest Hemingway 's The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber . Suggested reading includes
2162-590: A student submitting to the sexual advances of a person in authority in fear of being punished, for example by being given a failing grade. Several sexual abuse scandals have involved religious abuse or religious settings and often cover-up among non-abusers, including cases in the Southern Baptist Convention , Catholic Church , Episcopalian religion, Islam , Jehovah's Witnesses , Lutheran church, Methodist Church, Anabaptist/Mennonite Church , The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ,
2256-531: A sudden heart attack at his home in Lagunitas, California ; he was 65 years old. His body was cremated, and his ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean. Of his three children, only his son Nikolai attended his funeral. In My Best Fiend , his 1999 documentary about Kinski, Werner Herzog claimed that Kinski had fabricated much of his autobiography, and told of the difficulties in their working relationship. In
2350-723: A voiceover for an animated television program for the first time, appearing in The Boondocks in its third-season premiere episode " It's a Black President, Huey Freeman ". In the episode, he played a fictional cameo of himself filming a documentary about the series' cast of characters and their actions during the 2008 election of Barack Obama . Continuing with voice work, Herzog played Walter Hotenhoffer (formerly known as Augustus Gloop ) in The Simpsons episode " The Scorpion's Tale ", which aired in March 2011. The next year, he also appeared in
2444-738: Is a great deal of industry in the city and a real working class; I also appreciate the vibrant presence of the Mexicans." Herzog was honored at the 49th San Francisco International Film Festival , receiving the 2006 Film Society Directing Award. Four of his films have been shown at the San Francisco International Film Festival: Wodaabe – Herdsmen of the Sun in 1990, Bells from the Deep in 1993, Lessons of Darkness in 1993, and The Wild Blue Yonder in 2006. Grizzly Man ,
2538-544: Is a risk factor for attempting suicide. Additionally, some studies have shown childhood sexual abuse to be a risk factor of the perpetration of intimate partner violence in men. Much of the harm caused to victims becomes apparent years after the abuse happens. With specific regard to addiction, a study by Reiger et al. supports previous findings that adverse life events increase sensitivity to drug rewards and bolster drug reward signaling by exposing an association between heightened limbic response to cocaine cues. Sexual abuse by
2632-505: Is also on the website MasterClass , where he presents a course on filmmaking, entitled "Werner Herzog teaches filmmaking". In a discussion with Errol Morris at the Toronto Film Festival , Morris, who was influenced by Herzog's early films, joked that he considered himself one of the first students of the Rogue Film School. Regarding Herzog's influence on him, Morris quoted Gabriel García Márquez 's reaction to reading Kafka for
2726-582: Is based on the building of an opera house and his later film Invincible (2001) touches on the character of Siegfried . Herzog's documentary The Transformation of the World into Music goes behind the scenes of the Bayreuth Festival . Herzog has directed several operas, including Mozart's The Magic Flute , Beethoven's Fidelio , and Wagner's Parsifal . Critical of film schools, Herzog has taught three cinema workshops. From 2009 to 2016, he organized
2820-477: Is described as a "highly explosive drama inspired by a short story by Tom Bissell ". Dissatisfied with the way film schools are run, in 2009 Herzog founded his own Rogue Film School. For the students, Herzog has said, "I prefer people who have worked as bouncers in a sex club, or have been wardens in the lunatic asylum. You must live life in its very elementary forms. The Costa Ricans have a very nice word for it: pura vida . It doesn't mean just purity of life, but
2914-469: Is devoid of verité. It reaches a merely superficial truth, the truth of accountants." Herzog explained that "There are deeper strata of truth in cinema, and there is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and elusive, and can be reached only through fabrication and imagination and stylization" and that "facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable." Ebert later wrote of its significance: "For
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3008-460: Is evident in "something of a religious echo in my work". 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 cancelled due to a last-minute change in itinerary. The plane was later struck by lightning and disintegrated, but one survivor, Juliane Koepcke , lived after a free fall. Long haunted by
3102-421: Is referred to as a sexual abuser . Live streaming sexual abuse involves trafficking and coerced sexual acts , and/or rape , in real time on webcam . Molestation often refers to an instance of sexual assault against a small child. The perpetrator is called (often pejoratively ) a molester . The term also covers behavior by an adult or older adolescent towards a child to sexually stimulate any of
3196-441: Is suspected some care homes may deliberately overlook these offenses. People in poverty , including those from developing countries , are vulnerable to forced prostitution , live streaming sexual abuse , and other forms of molestation. Victims who come from families in poverty often have less connections, power, protection, and education about sex crimes . Sexual abuse is a problem in some minority communities. In 2007,
3290-952: The Poetic Edda as translated from Old Norse by Lee M. Hollander, Bernal Díaz del Castillo 's Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España ( The True History of the Conquest of New Spain ), and the 888-page report published by the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy . Herzog has been described as an atheist . In addition to standard German and his native Bavarian, he speaks English, French, Greek, Italian and Spanish. He can also read Latin and Ancient Greek . Since 1962, Herzog has directed 20 fiction feature films, seven fiction short films, and 34 documentary feature films, as well as eight documentary short films and episodes of two television series. He has also been
3384-586: The 8th-season episode of American Dad! , called " Ricky Spanish ". He lent his voice to a recurring character during the 4th season of the Adult Swim animated series Metalocalypse . In 2015 he voiced a guest character Old Reptile, an affiliate of Shrimply Pibbles for Adult Swim's Rick and Morty . He appeared in person opposite Tom Cruise as the villain Zec Chelovek in the 2012 action film Jack Reacher . Herzog gained attention in 2013 when he released
3478-561: The Disney+ live action Star Wars television series The Mandalorian , portraying " The Client ", a character with nebulous connections to the Empire . Herzog accepted the role after being impressed with the screenplay, although he said he had never seen any of the Star Wars films. In June 2022, Herzog published his debut novel, titled The Twilight World , telling the story of Hiroo Onoda ,
3572-646: The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints , Orthodox Judaism , other branches of Judaism , various buddhist schools such as Zen and Tibetan , Yoga classes , and various cults . In October 2020, a powerful member of the United Arab Emirates ' royal family, Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan , was accused of exploiting his authority by a British citizen, Caitlin McNamara, who
3666-478: The Kraków Film Festival . Herzog once promised to eat his shoe if Errol Morris completed a film project on pet cemeteries that he had been working on, in order to challenge and motivate Morris as he perceived Morris to be incapable of following up on the projects he conceived. In 1978, when the film Gates of Heaven premiered, Herzog cooked and publicly ate his shoe; the event was later incorporated into
3760-731: The Prinz-Heinrichs-Gymnasium [ de ] in Schöneberg. Kinski was conscripted into the Wehrmacht in 1943 at the age of 17, serving in a Fallschirmjäger unit. He saw no action until the winter of 1944, when his unit was transferred to the German-occupied Netherlands and he was captured by the British Army on his second day of combat. In his 1988 autobiography, he claimed that he had decided to desert from
3854-511: The Wehrmacht and had been recaptured by German forces and sentenced to death in a court-martial before escaping and hiding in the woods, subsequently encountering a British patrol which shot him in the arm and captured him. After being treated for his wounds and interrogated, he was transferred to a prisoner-of-war camp in Colchester , Essex ; the ship transporting him to Britain was torpedoed by
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3948-413: The 1970s and originally delivered to children. Programmes delivered to parents were developed in the 1980s and took the form of one-off meetings, two to three hours long. In the last 15 years, web-based programmes have been developed. The term survivor is sometimes used for a living victim, including victims of non-fatal harm, to honor and empower the strength of an individual to heal, in particular
4042-573: The Amazonian rainforest, close to the locations for Fitzcarraldo , for new filmmakers from around the world. Each made a short film under Herzog's supervision. Herzog was enthusiastic, and said of the resulting films that "the best 10 of them are better than the selections for best short film at the Academy Awards". Workshop participants included directors Rupert Clague and Quentin Lazzarotto . Herzog
4136-789: The Best Director award for Fitzcarraldo at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival . In 1975, his movie The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser won the Grand Prix Spécial du Jury (also known as the "Silver Palm") and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the Cannes Festival. Other films directed by Herzog nominated for Golden Palm are: Woyzeck (1979) and Where the Green Ants Dream (1984). His films have been nominated at many other festivals around
4230-614: The Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has specifically objected, for example, to SeaWorld 's breeding of orcas ( Orcinus orca ). Captive breeding of animals led to the idea of capturing and enslaving women for involuntary breeding according to Charles Patterson . In the emergency department , contraceptive medications are offered to women raped by men because about 5% of such rapes result in pregnancy. Preventative medication against sexually transmitted infections are given to victims of all types of sexual abuse (especially for
4324-672: The Golden Thumb Award, and an engraved glockenspiel given by a young film maker inspired by his films. Encounters at the End of the World , set in Antarctica, won the award for Best Documentary at the 2008 Edinburgh International Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature , Herzog's first Oscar nomination. In 2009, Herzog became the only filmmaker in recent history to enter two films in competition in
4418-418: The Rogue Film School, in which young directors spent a few days with him in evocative locations. What exactly goes on at the rogue film school has been clouded in secrecy, but director and writer Kristoffer Hegnsvad report from his stay there in his book Werner Herzog – Ecstatic Truth and Other Useless Conquests : "The first thing you notice is his enormous presence. His self-confidence sends shockwaves through
4512-798: The Taiga , which portrays the life of fur trappers and their families in the Siberian part of the Taiga ; it premiered at the 2010 Telluride Film Festival . Herzog has narrated many of his documentary films. In 2011, Herzog competed with Ridley Scott to make a film based on the life of British explorer Gertrude Bell . In 2012, it was confirmed that Herzog would start production on his long-in-development project in March 2013 in Morocco with Naomi Watts to play Gertrude Bell along with Robert Pattinson to play T. E. Lawrence and Jude Law to play Henry Cadogan . The film
4606-471: The Vampyre (1979), Fitzcarraldo (1982) and Cobra Verde (1987). The working relationship between the two was contentious; Herzog had threatened, on occasion, to murder Kinski. In one incident, Kinski was said to have been saved by his dog who attacked Herzog as he crept up to supposedly burn down the actor's house. Herzog has refused to comment on his numerous other plans to kill Kinski. However, he did pull
4700-725: 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 (2001), 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). He has also published over 12 books of prose and directed many operas. French filmmaker François Truffaut once called Herzog "the most important film director alive". American film critic Roger Ebert said that Herzog "has never created
4794-400: The Wrath of God , Nosferatu the Vampyre , Woyzeck , Fitzcarraldo , and Cobra Verde ), who would later chronicle their tumultuous relationship in the documentary My Best Fiend . Kinski's roles spanned multiple genres, languages, and nationalities, including Spaghetti Westerns , horror films , war films , dramas , and Edgar Wallace krimi films. His infamy was elevated by
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#17328986320714888-440: The abuse involves threats of unwanted sexual contact or forced sex by a woman's husband or ex-husband, it may constitute rape , depending on the jurisdiction, and may also constitute an assault. Child sexual abuse is a form of child abuse in which a child is abused for the sexual gratification of an adult or older adolescent. It includes direct sexual contact , the adult or otherwise older person engaging indecent exposure (of
4982-496: The age of 5 to 19. In an interview published by the German tabloid Bild on 14 January 2013, Kinski's younger daughter and Pola's half-sister, Nastassja, said their father would embrace her in a sexual manner when she was 4–5 years old but never had sex with her. Nastassja has expressed support for Pola and said that she was always afraid of their father, whom she described as an unpredictable tyrant. Kinski died on 23 November 1991 of
5076-650: The audience, Kinski did not gain a permanent contract after the Burgtheater's management became aware of his earlier difficulties in Germany. Kinski then unsuccessfully tried to sue the company. Living jobless in Vienna, Kinski reinvented himself as a monologist and spoken word artist. He presented the prose and verse of François Villon , William Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde , amongst others, and toured Austria , Germany, and Switzerland with his shows. Kinski's first film role
5170-517: The beginning of the New German Cinema , which included documentarians who filmed on low budgets and were influenced by the French New Wave . He developed a habit of casting professional actors alongside people from the locality in which he was shooting. His films, "usually set in distinct and unfamiliar landscapes, are imbued with mysticism." Herzog says his youthful experience with Catholicism
5264-441: The child, most often fathers, uncles or cousins; around 60% are other acquaintances such as friends of the family, babysitters, or neighbors; strangers are the offenders in approximately 10% of child sexual abuse cases. Most child sexual abuse is committed by men; women commit approximately 14% of offenses reported against boys and 6% of offenses reported against girls. Child sexual abuse offenders are not pedophiles unless they have
5358-481: The city, "Wherever you look is an immense depth, a tumult that resonates with me. New York is more concerned with finance than anything else. It doesn't create culture, only consumes it; most of what you find in New York comes from elsewhere. Things actually get done in Los Angeles. Look beyond the glitz and glamour of Hollywood and a wild excitement of intense dreams opens up; it has more horizons than any other place. There
5452-564: The city. After his return to Germany, Kinski started out as an actor, first at a small touring company in Offenburg , where he first used the name "Klaus Kinski". In 1946, he was hired by the renowned Schlosspark-Theater in Berlin, but he was fired the following year due to his unpredictable behavior. He found work at other theater companies thereafter, but his emotional volatility regularly got him into trouble. For three months in 1955, Kinski lived in
5546-458: The development of psychotic symptoms in abused children. Treatment for psychotic symptoms may also be involved in sexual abuse treatment. In regards to long term psychological treatment, prolonged exposure therapy has been tested as a method of long-term PTSD treatment for victims of sexual abuse. Child sexual abuse prevention programmes were developed in the United States of America during
5640-526: The event, nearly 30 years later he made a documentary film, Wings of Hope (1998), which explored the story of the sole survivor. Herzog and his films have been nominated for and won many awards. His first major award was the Silver Bear Extraordinary Prize of the Jury for his first feature film Signs of Life ( Nosferatu the Vampyre was also nominated for Golden Bear in 1979). Herzog won
5734-529: The festival. Herzog completed a documentary called Cave of Forgotten Dreams in 2010, which shows his journey into the Chauvet Cave in France. Although generally skeptical of 3D film as a format, Herzog premiered the film at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival in 3-D and had its European premiere at the 2011 Berlinale . Also in 2010, Herzog co-directed with Dimitry Vasuykov Happy People: A Year in
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#17328986320715828-432: The first comprehensive biography of Kinski, based on newly discovered archived material, personal letters and interviews with the actor's friends and colleagues. Peter Geyer published a paperback book of essays on Kinski's life and work. Werner Herzog Werner Herzog ( German: [ˈvɛʁnɐ ˈhɛʁtsoːk] ; né Stipetić ; born 5 September 1942) is a German filmmaker, actor, opera director, and author. Regarded as
5922-414: The first time, it fully explained his theory of 'ecstatic truth. ' " In 2017, Herzog wrote a six-point addendum to the manifesto, prompted by a question about "truth in an age of alt-facts". His treatment of subjects has been characterized as Wagnerian in its scope, but film theory has in recent years focused on the concept of the ecstatic and the nomadic character of his film. The plot of Fitzcarraldo
6016-440: The first time: "I didn't know you were allowed to do that." Herzog has been married three times and has three children. In 1967, he married Martje Grohmann and they had a son named Rudolph Amos Achmed (born 1973). They divorced in 1985. He later began dating Austrian-German actress Eva Mattes , and they had a daughter named Hanna Mattes (born 1980) before splitting up. He married Christine Maria Ebenberger in 1987, and they had
6110-620: The genitals, female nipples, etc.) to a child with intent to gratify their own sexual desires or to intimidate or groom the child, asking or pressuring a child to engage in sexual activities, displaying pornography to a child, or using a child to produce child pornography. Effects of child sexual abuse include shame, self-blame , depression , anxiety , post-traumatic stress disorder , self-esteem issues, sexual dysfunction , chronic pelvic pain , addiction, self-injury , suicidal ideation , borderline personality disorder , and propensity to re-victimization in adulthood. Child sexual abuse
6204-553: The greatest actors of the century, but also a monster and a great pestilence." Posthumously, he was accused of physically and sexually abusing his daughter Pola . His notoriety and prolific output have developed into a widespread cult following and a reputation as a popular icon . Klaus Günter Karl Nakszynski was born on 18 October 1926 in Zoppot , Free City of Danzig (now Sopot, Poland), to Polish-German parents. His father, Bruno Nakszynski, worked as an opera singer before becoming
6298-418: The involved. The use of a child for sexual stimulation is referred to as child sexual abuse and, for pubescent or post-pubescent individuals younger than the age of consent , statutory rape . Sexual abuse can be perpetrated against other vulnerable populations like the elderly, a form of elder abuse , or those with developmental disabilities . Spousal sexual abuse is a form of domestic violence . When
6392-768: The late 1960s, and found roles in numerous Spaghetti Westerns , including For a Few Dollars More (1965), A Bullet for the General (1966), The Great Silence (1968), Twice A Judas (1969), and A Genius, Two Partners and a Dupe (1975). In 1977, he starred as the RZ guerrillero Wilfried Böse in Operation Thunderbolt , based on the events of the Entebbe raid . Kinski's work with Werner Herzog brought him international recognition. They made five films together: Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972), Woyzeck (1979), Nosferatu
6486-512: The making of Fitzcarraldo were published as Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo . Mark Harris of The New York Times wrote in his review: "The movie and its making are both fables of daft aspiration, investigations of the blurry border between having a dream and losing one's mind." Herzog has said that our civilization is "starving for new images"; in
6580-500: The most common diseases like chlamydia , gonorrhea , trichomoniasis and bacterial vaginosis ) and a blood serum is collected to test for STIs (such as HIV , hepatitis B and syphilis ). Any survivor with abrasions are immunized for tetanus if 5 years have elapsed since the last immunization. Short-term treatment with a benzodiazepine may help with acute anxiety and antidepressants may be helpful for symptoms of PTSD , depression and panic attacks. Sexual abuse has been linked to
6674-453: The orders given to him. Kinski's performance reflected post-war Germany's reluctance to take responsibility for what had happened during World War II. During the 1960s and 1970s, he appeared in various European exploitation films , as well as more acclaimed works such as Doctor Zhivago (1965), in which he appeared as an anarchist prisoner on his way to the Gulag . He relocated to Italy during
6768-448: The period listed a preliminary diagnosis of schizophrenia , but the doctors' ultimate conclusion was psychopathy ( antisocial personality disorder ). Kinski soon became unable to secure film roles, and in 1955 he attempted suicide twice. In 2013, more than 20 years after her father's death, Pola Kinski published an autobiography titled Kindermund (or From a Child's Mouth ), in which she claimed her father had sexually abused her from
6862-567: The prisoners. By May 1945, at the end of the war in Europe , the German POWs were anxious to return home. Kinski had heard that sick prisoners were to be returned first, and tried to qualify by standing outside naked at night, drinking urine and eating cigarettes. He remained healthy, however, and was returned to Germany in 1946. Arriving in Berlin, he learned his father had died during the war, and his mother had been killed in an Allied air attack on
6956-472: The raw, stark-naked quality of life. And that's what makes young people more into a filmmaker than academia." Notable alumni include Keirda Bahruth , Nir Sa'ar, Bob Baldori , Sean Gill , Frederick Kroetsch , and George Hickenlooper . Herzog was selected to be the president of the jury at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival in 2010. In 2010 he expanded his reach by performing
7050-484: The same boarding house as a 13-year-old Werner Herzog, who would later direct him in a number of films. In My Best Fiend , Herzog described how Kinski once locked himself in the communal bathroom for 48 hours and broke everything in the room. In March 1956, he made a guest appearance at Vienna 's Burgtheater in Goethe 's Torquato Tasso . Although respected by his colleagues, among them Judith Holzmeister , and cheered by
7144-594: The same year at the Venice Film Festival . Herzog's Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans was entered into the festival's official competition schedule, and his My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? entered the competition as a "surprise film". Herzog also provided the narration for the short film Plastic Bag , directed by Ramin Bahrani , which was the opening night film in the Corto Cortissimo section of
7238-484: The same year, director David Schmoeller released a short film entitled Please Kill Mr. Kinski , which examined Kinski's erratic and disruptive behavior on the set of Schmoeller's 1986 film Crawlspace . The film features behind-the-scenes footage of Kinski's various confrontations with the director and crew, along with Schmoeller's account of the events, in which he claims a producer offered to murder Kinski for his life insurance money. In 2006, Christian David published
7332-442: The screenwriter or co-writer for all his films and for four others, and has appeared as an actor in 26 film or television productions. Source, Homepage. Sexual abuse Sexual abuse or sex abuse is abusive sexual behavior by one person upon another. It is often perpetrated using physical force, or by taking advantage of another. Sexual abuse is a term used for a persistent pattern of sexual assaults . The offender
7426-518: The script was "a yawn-making, boring pile of shit" and "moronically shitty". Kinski would go on to play Kurtz, an Israeli intelligence officer, in The Little Drummer Girl , a feature film by George Roy Hill in 1984. Kinski co-starred in the science fiction television film Timestalkers with William Devane and Lauren Hutton . His last film was Paganini (1989), which he wrote, directed, and starred in as Niccolò Paganini . Kinski
7520-526: The script. He explains this technique in the commentary track to Aguirre, the Wrath of God . In 1999, before a public dialogue with critic Roger Ebert at the Walker Art Center , Herzog read a new manifesto , which he dubbed Minnesota Declaration: Truth and Fact in Documentary Cinema. Subtitled "Lessons of Darkness", after his film of that name , the 12-point declaration began: "Cinema Verité
7614-443: The subject of controversy in regard to their themes and messages, especially the circumstances surrounding their creation. A notable example is Fitzcarraldo , in which the obsessiveness of the central character was reflected by the director during the making of the film. Burden of Dreams , a documentary filmed during the making of Fitzcarraldo , explored Herzog's efforts to make the film in harsh conditions. Herzog's diaries during
7708-526: The world: César Awards ( Aguirre, the Wrath of God ), Emmy Awards ( Little Dieter Needs to Fly ), European Film Awards ( My Best Fiend ) and Venice Film Festival ( Scream of Stone and The Wild Blue Yonder ). In 1987, Herzog and his half-brother Lucki Stipetić won the Bavarian Film Award for Best Producing for the film Cobra Verde . In 2002, he won the Dragon of Dragons Honorary Award at
7802-399: The years went by, it was clear that he was forgotten. Herzog said his novel was a fictional account of Hiroo Onoda's ordeal of being stranded in a jungle fighting a war that had officially ended. He has said, "Most details are factually correct; some are not". Herzog's films have received considerable critical acclaim and achieved popularity on the art house circuit. They have also been
7896-540: Was German. When he 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 . He, his older brother Till and younger half-brother Lucki grew up without running water, a flushing toilet, or a telephone. He recounted that his family had "no toys" and "no tools" and said that there
7990-505: Was a sense of anarchy, as all the fathers of the village's children were absent. He never saw films, and did not even know cinema existed 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, but he later adopted his father's surname (which is German for "duke" ) as he thought it sounded more impressive for
8084-468: Was a small part in the 1948 film Morituri . He appeared in several German Edgar Wallace movies, and had bit parts in the American war films Decision Before Dawn (1951), A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958), and The Counterfeit Traitor (1962). In Alfred Vohrer 's Die toten Augen von London (1961), his character refused any personal guilt for his evil deeds and claimed to have only followed
8178-444: Was almost expelled. The incident scarred him for life. 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. 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 on foot. Around this time, he knew he would be
8272-617: Was born in 1976. They divorced in 1979. Kinski published his autobiography, All I Need Is Love , in 1988 (reprinted in 1996 as Kinski Uncut ). The book prompted his second daughter Nastassja Kinski to file a libel suit against him, which she afterward withdrew. In 1950, Kinski stayed at the Karl-Bonhoeffer-Nervenklinik (de) , a psychiatric hospital in West Berlin , for three days after stalking his theatrical sponsor and attempting to strangle her. Medical records from
8366-567: Was completed in 2014 with a different cast: Nicole Kidman as Gertrude Bell, James Franco as Henry Cadogan, Damian Lewis as Charles Doughty-Wylie, and Robert Pattinson as a 22-year-old archaeologist T. E. Lawrence . Queen of the Desert had its world premiere at the 2015 Berlin International Film Festival . In 2015, Herzog shot a feature film, Salt and Fire , in Bolivia , starring Veronica Ferres , Michael Shannon and Gael García Bernal . It
8460-516: Was intrigued by the post-independence Congo , but in attempting to travel there, reached only the south of Sudan before falling seriously ill. While already making films, he had a brief stint at the University of Munich , where he studied history and literature. Herzog subsequently moved to Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania, in order to study at Duquesne University . Herzog, along with Rainer Werner Fassbinder , Wim Wenders and Volker Schlöndorff , led
8554-450: Was married three times. He married his first wife, singer Gislinde Kühlbeck , in 1952. The couple had a daughter, Pola Kinski . They divorced in 1955. Five years later he married actress Ruth Brigitte Tocki . They divorced in 1971. Their daughter Nastassja Kinski was born in January 1961. He married his third and final wife, model Minhoi Geneviève Loanic , in 1971. Their son Nikolai Kinski
8648-567: Was subsequently distributed to over 40,000 high schools. In July 2013, Herzog contributed to an art installation entitled "Hearsay of the Soul", for the Whitney Biennial, which was later acquired as a permanent exhibit by the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. In late 2013 he voiced some of the English-language dub of Hayao Miyazaki 's The Wind Rises . In 2019, Herzog joined the cast of
8742-403: Was willing to take on his projects, so he worked night shifts as a welder in a steel factory to earn the funds for his first featurettes. When he finished school, but before he formally graduated, he followed his girlfriend to Manchester , England, where he spent several months and learned to speak English. He found the language classes pointless and "fled". After graduating from high school, he
8836-465: Was working on Abu Dhabi Hay Festival . On February 14 that year, the UAE's Minister of Tolerance called McNamara for a dinner at his villa on private island and sexually abused the woman, who was organizing the literary festival for the country. Due to social media censorship algorithms, people wishing to discuss sex and particular sexual assault have adopted the ' algospeak ' code word 'mascara' to refer to
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