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.
Acting (53 movies)
Humor ist eine ernste Sache - Der Filmregisseur Kurt Hoffmann
1985
From Caligari to Hitler
2015
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
2010
The Stones and Brian Jones
2024
Mathias Kneißl
1971
I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
1992
Code Name: Melville
2010
The Night of the Filmmakers
1995
Hands Up!
1985
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
1986
Billy, How Did You Do It?
1992
Malle's Fire Within
2008
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
2022
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
2012
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
2022
Fassbinder
2015
Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion
2022
Michael Nyman in Progress
2010
Chance at Love
1964
Merkel
2022
Film Hour
1991
Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit
2024
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
2002
Melville Steps Out of the Shadows
2010
Neuer Deutscher Film Report
1967
Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands
2004
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
1976
Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder
2017
Cinématon
1978
Billy Wilder Speaks
2006
Filmmakers in Action
2006
Léon Morin, Priest
1961
Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century
2015
Nuits transparentes
2011
Sympathisanten - Unser deutscher Herbst
2018
Hollywood's Second World War
2019
Volker Schlöndorff Remembers The Tin Drum
2001
Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power
2019
Tangerine Dream: Sound from Another World
2016
Knef - Die frühen Jahre
2005
Unraveling the Enigma: The Making of Marienbad
2009
Melville, le dernier samouraï
2020
Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial
2009
Henri Langlois vu par...
2014
Volker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the Drum
2020
Last Year in Dachau
2020
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
2021
Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg
2024
Pan Olbrychski
2025
Alain Resnais, the Audacious
2022
Le Doulos
1962
De qui dépend que l’oppression demeure ?
1975
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
2017
Directing (43 movies)
The Tin Drum
1979
The Legend of Rita
2000
Voyager
1991
The Ninth Day
2004
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
1975
The Forest Maker
2022
The Handmaid's Tale
1990
Palmetto
1998
Germany in Autumn
1978
Death of a Salesman
1985
Coup de Grâce
1976
Strike
2007
Circle of Deceit
1981
Young Törless
1966
The Ogre
1996
Ulzhan
2007
Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
2002
A Gathering of Old Men
1987
The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach
1971
Calm at Sea
2012
Swann in Love
1984
Michael Kohlhaas - The Rebel
1969
A Degree of Murder
1967
Diplomacy
2014
Baal
1970
Billy, How Did You Do It?
1992
A Free Woman
1972
The Morals of Ruth Halbfass
1972
Enigma – Eine uneingestandene Liebe
2005
Billy Wilder Speaks
2006
The Candidate
1980
War and Peace
1982
Der Paukenspieler
1967
Return to Montauk
2017
The Enlightenment
2002
The Nameless Day
2017
Who Cares...
1960
Portrait of Valeska Gert
1977
Stayover in Tirol
1974
Georginas Gründe
1975
Ein Produzent hat Seele oder er hat keine
2002
The Michael Nyman Songbook
1992
Henri Langlois vu par...
2014