Werner Herzog: from ghost elephants to grilled meat.

Alard von Kittlitz   Die Zeit26 September 2025
Master director Werner Herzog, recently honoured for his lifetime achievement at the Venice Film Festival and famous for his defiance and disdain for social media, now has an Instagram account.

Five posts, 459,000 followers…and counting. Herzog himself follows no one, presumably because he has no idea how to.

At 83, he seems gentler, yet still unmistakably Herzog.