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"Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle" - On the occasion of his 80th birthday: the memoirs of the great filmmaker Werner Herzog

His life is a life of the century, his memoirs are a literary event.

"As a child," writes Werner Herzog, "I was convinced I would not reach my eighteenth year." It turned out differently. Werner Herzog's long-awaited memoir recounts a life of the century that wouldn't even fit into one of his own famous films.

A perpetually hungry boy, fleeing with his mother from bombed Munich to a desperately poor nest in the Alps. A youth with an all-bursting thirst for adventure, who hitchhikes all alone and soon finds himself in the furthest reaches of Egypt, delirious with fever, waiting for death. A lover, an enthusiast, a driven man: a man who quietly talks to the raging Klaus Kinski in the middle of the jungle, a man who sits weeping for his friend Bruce Chatwin at his deathbed.

For Werner Herzog's 80th birthday, his memoirs are published, which are anything but merely a resume. Desolate and gentle, full of lust for life and wonder at our world, this book is a literary event.

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