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Stan Carey

I expected to enjoy this – Conquest of the Useless was amazing – and it's hitting the mark. What a life he's led.

Paperback copy of Werner Herzog's memoir "Every Man for Himself and God Against All", placed on a wooden surface. The cover shows a photo of Herzog on the set of "Into the Inferno", his 2016 documentary about volcanoes. He's wearing a shiny silver lava suit and is holding its cylindrical helmet in front of his chest. He's looking into the camera with an intent but neutral expression. Volcano smoke billows behind him. Below this image, his name and the book title are in uppercase sans-serif text in white and black on a red background.
#books#memoir#WernerHerzog
Stan Carey

Werner Herzog on speaking with Lena, his wife and collaborator:

"We speak neither German nor Russian with each other because it has turned out that it is good for us to meet on a plane that is neither all hers nor all mine. It makes us both careful in a language that was originally neither of ours."

#language#communication#multilingualism
Feb 01, 2025, 03:22 PM·Public
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Stan Carey

"There are dozens of imitators, but none of them has really caught my sound."

Werner Herzog on his voice and accent, in "Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir"

But there is at least a memory of my role as hypnotist in the timbre of my voice in documentaries. What matters, though, is not the voice itself but what the voice has to say. It is the content that spooks the audience. What I write and record could never appear, say, in a National Geographic film. At the end of my film on volcanoes, Into the Inferno, you see the streams of lava erupting from the interior of the earth, and my voice reminds the listener that deep under our feet is glowing magma "that wants to burst forth and it could not care less about what we are doing up here. This boiling mass is indifferent to scurrying roaches, retarded reptiles, and vapid humans alike." Sentences like that demand the appropriate intonation. I accept then that my voice in German has the South German twang of my first language, Bavarian. And I accept too that I speak English with a strong accent, maybe not quite so strong as Henry Kissinger's English but still sufficiently so for there to be a number of imitators on the Web who in "my" voice read fairy tales or give advice for living. There are dozens of imitators, but none of them has really caught my sound. My voice has found a great community of fans, combined with my view of life asks to be imitated. I am a grateful victim of such satirists.
#books#memoir#WernerHerzog
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