Aria to Werner Herzog -

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.