FATA MORGANA

Werner Herzog, whose real name is Werner H. Stipetic, was born on September 5, 1942 in Munich. He grew up in a remote mountain village in Bavaria, where there was no telephone, no cinema and no television. He started travelling on foot at the age of 14. He made his first phone-call at the age of 17. While attending high school, he also worked the nightshift as a welder in a steel factory in order to raise enough money to make films. He made his first film in 1961, at the age of 19. Since then he has produced, written and directed more than forty films, published more than a dozen books of prose and directed as many operas.