Sorry! Don't know. I thought probably his autobiography, but I've just searched a PDF of that, and his History of Western Philosophy, and it's not in either of those. I guess one of his essays - must be one of the ones collected in books, because those are the only ones I've read, but that doesn't narrow it down much :-(
Sometimes I think with Herzog and Kinski two lunatics had found each other and it is interesting to see how both dealt with it. While Kinski was pulled down by it like in a vortex Herzog seems to have learned to ride the wave and use it at his advantage.
That's because they include people in gangs or targeted for domestic abuse, caught up in feuds with others, and such.
There's also the fact that a person in a seedy area with lots of violence going on, might be victim or witness more than a shooting in his lifetime too, even if they're totally innocent and more involved.
But with those factors taken out, it's not like being shot once is connected to being shot again via any other mysterious route...
So, yes, if you were shot once at a drug deal gone wrong, or John Wick tried to killed you and missed at some point, you'll likely be shot again.
If, on the other hand, you were an accidental victim of some random mass shooting, or got caught in a crossfire once and you're not living in some ghetto, it's not like you'll be more likely to be shot again because of it.
We have a Swedish politician that could take a lesson from that... don't promise what you can't keep, or take the consequences. If you say you will eat your shoes if something happens, it is a promise you should keep. Kudos to Herzog for living up to his words.
Not to derail this into another subthread about the politics of sweden, but who are you refering to? The only one I know who have made such a promise was Kindberg-Batra when she was a candidate for the Stockholm municipality.
Well she (being a bit of a edgelord in her younger days) promised to "show skin" if she got elected, and some people thoght that they would get a strip tease or something like that. As I remember it, she did post a square super zoomed in image supposedly of her body but it was impossible to actually identify any specific body part.
Saw the short film somewhere (maybe Criterion Channel?) ... He did quite a bit of cheating by eating only a specific portion and not eating it raw... Still pretty funny though.
Also look up the story of him jumping into a cactus... Ouch (I think they mention it in the film)
After watching "Fitzcarraldo", be sure to watch "Burden of Dreams".
Another director would have used practical special effects (models) to film dragging the steamship over the mountain and riding it down the rapids. Herzog dragged a real steamship over the actual mountain and he and the film crew rode it down the rapids.
In "Aguirre Wrath of God" the conquistadors war party lose half of their equipment when a flood sweeps one of the rafts away. This was not part of the script, during on location shooting an actual flood swept one of the movie crews rafts away with a lot of the equipment and props.