Volker Schlöndorff
March 31, 1939 (85 years old) in Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany
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
Credits
- 2024 · Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit as Himself
- 2024 · Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg as Self
- 2024 · The Stones and Brian Jones as Self
- 2023 · German Genius as Volker Schlöndorff
- 2022 · Merkel as Self
- 2022 · Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer as Self
- 2022 · Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors as Volker Schlöndorff
- 2022 · Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion as Self
- 2022 · Studio 3 – Live aus Babelsberg as Self
- 2021 · A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner as Self
- 2020 · 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
- 2019 · 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
- 2018 · Was tut sich - im deutschen Film? as Himself
- 2018 · Sympathisanten - Unser deutscher Herbst as Self
- 2017 · Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder as Self
- 2016 · Tangerine Dream: Sound from Another World as Self
- 2015 · 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
- 2014 · Henri Langlois vu par... as Self
- 2014 · Bewegte Republik Deutschland as Self
- 2012 · Open Opera – Wer wird Carmen? as Self
- 2012 · Square as Self
- 2011 · Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections as Self
- 2011 · Günther Jauch as Self
- 2011 · Nuits transparentes as
- 2011 · Was wurde aus...? as himself
- 2010 · Cave of Forgotten Dreams as Narrator (French version) (voice) (uncredited)
- 2010 · Michael Nyman in Progress as Self
- 2010 · Museums-Check mit Markus Brock as Self
- 2010 · Westpol: Eins zu eins as self
- 2010 · Memories of Last Year in Marienbad as Himself - Narrator
- 2010 · Melville Steps Out of the Shadows as Interviewee
- 2009 · Unraveling the Enigma: The Making of Marienbad as Self
- 2009 · Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial as himself
- 2008 · Code Name: Melville as Self
- 2008 · Malle's Fire Within as Self
- 2006 · Filmmakers in Action as Self
- 2006 · Billy Wilder Speaks as Self - Filmmaker / Interviewer
- 2005 · Knef - Die frühen Jahre as Self
- 2005 · Gottschalk meets Petersen as Himself
- 2005 · Who is Helene Schwarz? as Self
- 2005 · Von Sex bis Simmel as Self
- 2004 · Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands as Self (Interviewee)
- 2003 · Die Verhoevens as Himself
- 2003 · Un film et son époque as Self
- 2002 · Gero von Boehm begegnet... as Self
- 2002 · Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song as Self
- 2002 · Ein Produzent hat Seele oder er hat keine as Self
- 2002 · Im Glashaus - Das philosophische Quartett as himself
- 2001 · Volker Schlöndorff Remembers The Tin Drum as Self
- 2000 · Abendschau as Self
- 2000 · Abendschau as self
- 2000 · Schrott - Die Atzenposse as
- 1999 · Maybrit Illner as Self
- 1999 · Volle Kanne as Self
- 1999 · Beckmann as Self
- 1998 · Alpha Forum as Self
- 1997 · Nachtstudio as Self
- 1997 · Im Dialog as self
- 1995 · Die Harald Schmidt Show as Self
- 1995 · The Night of the Filmmakers as Self
- 1992 · Billy, How Did You Do It? as Self
- 1992 · Morgenmagazin as Self
- 1992 · I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me as Self
- 1992 · Billy, How Did You Do It? as Self
- 1991 · Film Lesson as Self
- 1990 · Zeil um Zehn as Self
- 1990 · Romy Award as Self
- 1989 · ZDF-Mittagsmagazin as Self
- 1987 · Nachtcafé as Self
- 1986 · American Masters as Self
- 1986 · Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’ as Self - The Director
- 1985 · Humor ist eine ernste Sache - Der Filmregisseur Kurt Hoffmann as Self
- 1985 · Hands Up! as Self (1981 footage)
- 1982 · Champs-Elysées as Self
- 1979 · Bayerischer Filmpreis as Self
- 1979 · NDR Talk Show as Self
- 1978 · Cinématon as N°572
- 1976 · Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema as Self
- 1976 · Kölner Treff as Self
- 1975 · Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
- 1974 · 3 nach 9 as Self
- 1974 · Spécial cinéma as Self
- 1973 · Je später der Abend as Self
- 1971 · Mathias Kneißl as
- 1967 · Titel, Thesen, Temperamente as Self
- 1967 · Neuer Deutscher Film Report as
- 1966 · Goldene Kamera Verleihung as Self
- 1964 · Chance at Love as Un militaire allemand (segment "Chance du guerrier, La") (uncredited)
- 1961 · Léon Morin, Priest as German Soldier (uncredited)
- 1951 · Deutscher Filmpreis as Self