Rudolph Herzog (born 1973, Munich) is a German film director, producer and writer."Rudolph Herzog", a profile at Werner Herzog Foundation
Films 2022: Last Exit: Space, a documentary about colonizing space, director; 2019: How to Fake a War, released at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, 2011: BBC/ARD documentary on humour in Nazi Germany based on the book Dead Funny 2014:The President, coproducer, a feature film about the last days of a dictator. Best Film at the Chicago Film Festival, the Audience Award for Best Film from the Tokyo FILMeX and the Beirut International Film Festival and the Golden Hooker Award at the Galway Film Fleadh; 2014: A Short History of Nuclear Folly; original German title: Die Atombombe im Vorgarten; A documentary based on the book Der verstrahlte Westernheld translated as A Short History of Nuclear Folly 2010: Amundsen - Lost in the Arctic, a National Geographic documentary on polar explorer Roald Amundsen, writer, director 2008: Abora - Letzte Position Atlantik The Agent, about the Stasi double agent 2006: Heil Hitler, das Schwein ist tot! - Humor unterm Hakenkreuz; TV film about Holocaust humor English title: Ve Have Vays Of Making You Laugh. Jokes about Hitler could get you killed...) 2007: UK release (BBC): Laughing with Hitler, narrator; 2004: The White Diamond, documentary, screenplay by Rudolph Herzog; directed by Werner Herzog; 2004: The Heist, reality crime series, director
Books 2017: Truggestalten A collection of seven supernatural stories 2019: Translation: Ghosts of Berlin 2012: Der verstrahlte Westernheld und anderer Irrsinn aus dem Atomzeitalter ("The irradiated western hero and other madness from the nuclear age") 2014: Translation: A Short History of Nuclear Folly 2006: Heil Hitler, das Schwein ist tot! Lachen unter Hitler - Komik und Humor im Dritten Reich, 2011: Translation: Dead Funny. Telling Jokes in Hitler's Germany (based on Laughing with Hitler) Named Book of the Year by The Atlantic "The Sound of Young America: Writer and Filmmaker Rudolph Herzog", transcript of the interview at the Bullseye with Jesse Thorn podcastMonica Osborne, "Springtime for Hitler", The New Republic, August 21, 2011, a review of Herzog's book
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