Volker Schlöndorff
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.
Personal Details
Movies (40)
Heimsuchung
Writer (Writing)
2026
Pan Olbrychski
as Self
2025
Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit
as Self
2024
Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg
as Self
2024
The Stones and Brian Jones
as Self
2024
Merkel
as Self
2022
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
as Self
2022
Alain Resnais, the Audacious
as Self
2022
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
as Self
2022
Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion
as Self
2022
The Forest Maker
Director (Directing)
2022
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
as Self
2021
Volker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the Drum
as Self - Filmmaker
2020
Last Year in Dachau
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2020
Melville, le dernier samouraï
as Self
2020
Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power
as Self - Filmmaker
2019
Hollywood's Second World War
as Self
2019
Fuck the Message
as Self
2019
Sympathisanten - Unser deutscher Herbst
as Self
2018
Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder
as Self
2017
The Nameless Day
Writer (Writing)
2017
Return to Montauk
Producer (Production)
2017
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
as Self
2017
Tangerine Dream: Sound from Another World
as Self
2016
Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century
as Self - Filmmaker
2015
From Caligari to Hitler
as Self - Filmmaker
2015
The Poet and the Filmmaker: Volker Schlöndorff on Baal
as Interviewer
2015
Fassbinder
as Self
2015
Henri Langlois vu par...
as Self
2014
Diplomacy
Director (Directing)
2014
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
as Self
2012
Calm at Sea
Director (Directing)
2012
Nuits transparentes
2011
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
as Narrator (French version) (voice) (uncredited)
2010
Michael Nyman in Progress
as Self
2010
Code Name: Melville
as Self
2010
Memories of Last Year in Marienbad
as Himself - Narrator
2010
Melville Steps Out of the Shadows
as Interviewee
2010
Unraveling the Enigma: The Making of Marienbad
as Self
2009
Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial
as himself
2009
TV Shows (10)
German Genius
as Volker Schlöndorff
2023
Studio 3 - Live aus Babelsberg
as Self
2022
Was tut sich - im deutschen Film?
as Himself
2018
Bewegte Republik Deutschland
as Self
2014
Open Opera – Wer wird Carmen?
as Self
2012
Square
as Self
2012
Günther Jauch
as Self
2011
Was wurde aus...?
as himself
2011
Museums-Check mit Markus Brock
as Self
2010
Westpol: Eins zu eins
as self
2010