Dieter Daimler's on-set antics are an obvious reference to the famously temperamental Klaus Kinski and his interactions with Rainer Wolz are based on the mercurial working relationship between Kinski and Werner Herzog.
A parody of Les Blank's Burden Of Dreams (1982), which followed Werner Herzog's chaotic filming of Fitzcarraldo.
The name Dieter Daimler is a likely nod to Dieter Dengler, an American POW who was the subject of the Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) film Werner Herzog.