Person
Volker Schlöndorff
Directing · Born 1939-03-31 · Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany
Biography
Volker Schlöndorff is a Berlin-based German filmmaker. He won an Oscar as well as the Palme d'or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival for The Tin Drum (1979), the film version of the novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Günter Grass. In 1991, he was the Head of the Jury at the 41st Berlin International Film Festival. Schlöndorff has adapted many literary works for his movies, including some critically well-received US productions, but he is also engaged in post-war German politics. He served as the chief executive for the UFA studio in Babelsberg. Schlöndorff also teaches film and literature at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, where he conducts an Intensive Summer Seminar. He was married to fellow film director Margarethe von Trotta from 1971 to 1991. He is currently married to Angelika Schlöndorff, and the couple has one daughter.
Known for
Morgenmagazin
Self
Abendschau
Self
Volle Kanne
Self
Alpha Forum
Self
Die Harald Schmidt Show
Self
Spécial cinéma
Self
NDR Talk Show
Self
Nachtstudio
Self
Kölner Treff
Self
Westpol
self
Filmography
- 2026VisitationWriter
- 2026Igor and After
- 2026Mein liebster DokumentarfilmSelf
- 2025Pan OlbrychskiSelf
- 2024Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du mauditSelf
- 2024Catching Fire: The Story of Anita PallenbergSelf
- 2024The Stones and Brian JonesSelf
- 2023German GeniusVolker Schlöndorff
- 2022MerkelSelf
- 2022Werner Herzog: Radical DreamerSelf
- 2022Alain Resnais, the AudaciousSelf
- 2022Come with Me to the Cinema – The GregorsSelf
- 2022Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring PassionSelf
- 2022The Forest MakerDirector
- 2022Studio 3 - Live aus BabelsbergSelf
- 2021A Life for Movies: Lotte EisnerSelf
- 2020Volker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the DrumSelf - Filmmaker
- 2020Last Year in DachauSelf - Narrator (voice)
- 2020Melville, le dernier samouraïSelf
- 2019Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is PowerSelf - Filmmaker
- 2019Hollywood's Second World WarSelf
- 2019Fuck the MessageSelf
- 2018Was tut sich - im deutschen Film?Himself
- 2018Sympathisanten - Unser deutscher HerbstSelf
- 2017Never Be Boring: Billy WilderSelf
- 2017The Nameless DayWriter
- 2017Return to MontaukProducer
- 2017Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of LifeSelf
- 2016Tangerine Dream: Sound from Another WorldSelf
- 2015Arthur Miller: A Man of His CenturySelf - Filmmaker
- 2015From Caligari to HitlerSelf - Filmmaker
- 2015The Poet and the Filmmaker: Volker Schlöndorff on BaalInterviewer
- 2015FassbinderSelf
- 2014Henri Langlois vu par...Self
- 2014DiplomacyDirector
- 2014Bewegte Republik DeutschlandSelf
- 2012Open Opera – Wer wird Carmen?Self
- 2012Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and ReflectionsSelf
- 2012Calm at SeaDirector
- 2012SquareSelf
- 2011Günther JauchSelf
- 2011Nuits transparentes
- 2011Was wurde aus...?himself
- 2010Cave of Forgotten DreamsNarrator (French version) (voice) (uncredited)
- 2010Michael Nyman in ProgressSelf
- 2010Museums-Check mit Markus BrockSelf
- 2010Code Name: MelvilleSelf
- 2010Westpolself
- 2010Memories of Last Year in MarienbadHimself - Narrator
- 2010Melville Steps Out of the ShadowsInterviewee
- 2009Unraveling the Enigma: The Making of MarienbadSelf
- 2009Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorialhimself
- 2008Malle's Fire WithinSelf
- 2007UlzhanDirector
- 2007Strike
- 2006Filmmakers in ActionSelf
- 2006Billy Wilder SpeaksSelf - Filmmaker / Interviewer
- 2005Knef - Die frühen JahreSelf
- 2005Enigma – Eine uneingestandene LiebeDirector
- 2005Gottschalk meets PetersenHimself
- 2005Who is Helene Schwarz?Self
- 2005Von Sex bis SimmelSelf
- 2004The Ninth DayDirector
- 2004Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemandsSelf (Interviewee)
- 2003Die VerhoevensHimself
- 2003Un film et son époqueSelf
- 2002Ten Minutes Older: The CelloDirector
- 2002The EnlightenmentDirector
- 2002Gero von Boehm begegnet...Self
- 2002Marlene Dietrich: Her Own SongSelf
- 2002Ein Produzent hat Seele oder er hat keineSelf
- 2002Everyman's FeastProducer
- 2002Im Glashaus - Das philosophische Quartetthimself
- 2001Volker Schlöndorff Remembers The Tin DrumSelf
- 2000The Legend of RitaDirector
- 2000AbendschauSelf
- 2000Schrott - Die Atzenposse
- 1999maybrit illnerSelf
- 1999Volle KanneSelf
- 1999BeckmannSelf
- 1998PalmettoDirector
- 1998Alpha ForumSelf
- 1997NachtstudioSelf
- 1997Im Dialogself
- 1996The Ice PrincessExecutive Producer
- 1996The OgreDirector
- 1995Die Harald Schmidt ShowSelf
- 1995The Night of the FilmmakersSelf
- 1992Billy, How Did You Do It?Self
- 1992MorgenmagazinSelf
- 1992I Don’t Just Want You to Love MeSelf
- 1992The Michael Nyman SongbookDirector
- 1992Billy, How Did You Do It?Self
- 1991Film LessonSelf
- 1991VoyagerDirector
- 1990The Handmaid's TaleDirector
- 1990Zeil um ZehnSelf
- 1990Romy AwardSelf
- 1989ZDF-MittagsmagazinSelf
- 1987A Gathering of Old MenDirector
- 1987NachtcaféSelf
- 1986Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’Self - The Director
- 1986American MastersSelf
- 1985Humor ist eine ernste Sache - Der Filmregisseur Kurt HoffmannSelf
- 1985Death of a SalesmanDirector
- 1985Hands Up!Self (1981 footage)
- 1984Swann in LoveDirector
- 1984Goldene KameraSelf
- 1982War and PeaceDirector
- 1982Champs-ElyséesSelf
- 1981Circle of DeceitDirector
- 1980The CandidateDirector
- 1979Bavarian Film AwardsSelf
- 1979The Tin DrumDirector
- 1979NDR Talk ShowSelf
- 1978CinématonN°572
- 1978Germany in AutumnDirector
- 1978Ciné regardsSelf
- 1978Beto Nervio contra el poder de las tinieblasAssociate Producer
- 1977Portrait of Valeska GertDirector
- 1976Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German CinemaSelf
- 1976Coup de GrâceDirector
- 1976Henry James StoriesDirector
- 1976Kölner TreffSelf
- 1975Georginas GründeDirector
- 1975Les Rendez-vous du dimancheSelf
- 1975The Lost Honor of Katharina BlumDirector
- 1975De qui dépend que l’oppression demeure ?Self
- 19743 nach 9Self
- 1974Stayover in TirolDirector
- 1974Spécial cinémaSelf
- 1973Je später der AbendSelf
- 1972A Free WomanDirector
- 1972The Morals of Ruth HalbfassDirector
- 1971Mathias Kneißl
- 1971The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of KombachDirector
- 1971Rio das MortesIdea
- 197011 Uhr 20Barkeepeer Henry
- 1970BaalDirector
- 1969Michael Kohlhaas - The RebelDirector
- 1967Titel, Thesen, TemperamenteSelf
- 1967Der PaukenspielerDirector
- 1967Degree of MurderDirector
- 1967Neuer Deutscher Film Report
- 1966Young TörlessWriter
- 1965Viva Maria!Assistant Director
- 1964Chance at LoveGerman soldier (segment "Chance du guerrier, La") (uncredited)
- 1963The Fire WithinAssistant Director
- 1963MéditerranéeCo-Director
- 1962Le DoulosMan in Bar (uncredited)
- 1962A Very Private AffairAssistant Director
- 1961Last Year at MarienbadSecond Assistant Director
- 1961Léon Morin, PriestGerman Soldier (uncredited)
- 1960Who Cares...Director
- 1951German Film AwardSelf
- —Ulrich Matthes - Leidenschaft und HaltungSelf
- —Love Me AgainThanks
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