Aria to Werner Herzog - #EFA2019

Opera singer Alexandra Hutton sings an aria for Werner Herzog, EFA Lifetime Achievement Award at the 32nd European Film Awards in Berlin, Germany. Words and music and direction by Dietrich Brüggemann. #efa2019 #WernerHerzog Lyrics: Werner Herzog, Werner Herzog, where are you who are you and how do you do all the things you do Werner Herzog, a thousand stories, all are true Werner Herzog, this is an aria just for you In the 20th century, a baby was born in Bavaria and a wise woman prophesied: He will be big in America So when he was three years old he stole his first camera and made films that would make him one of the Gods of cinema Even dwarves have started small but he started big he walked to Albania and Africa and that’s where he got sick He died but three days later he returned from the dead and said: I’ve wrestled a film from the claws of the devil and it’s in my head But now I will walk back to my native Germany I brought things from the darkness that these people need to see Signs of life and hearts of glass and screams of stone the wrath of God and the queen of the desert and rescue dawn So he walked through the years and through rivers and mountains and over the seas and shot lots of fiction and even more documentaries walked to Paris to save Lotte Eisner and gave her eight more years and he’s still on the road and you never know where next he appears holding lessons in Darkness and picknicks in places that God forbid but see for yourself, we made a clip of the things he did Werner Herzog, Werner Herzog, this is you please keep going, there is a lot more stuff to do don’t jump into one more cactus, don’t eat your other shoe this aria is through, but Wim Wenders will come now and sing for you Werner Herzog, we wrote this serenade just for you and we did it without mentioning Kinski, because we wanted to This was an aria for Werner Herzog, may he live long and strong Please, Wim Wenders, come on stage and finish this song.