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.
Filmography
Igor and After
2026
Pan Olbrychski
2025
as Self
Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit
2024
as Self
Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg
2024
as Self
The Stones and Brian Jones
2024
as Self
Merkel
2022
as Self
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
2022
as Self
Alain Resnais, the Audacious
2022
as Self
Come with Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
2022
as Self
Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion
2022
as Self
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
2021
as Self
Volker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the Drum
2020
as Self - Filmmaker
Last Year in Dachau
2020
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Melville, le dernier samouraï
2020
as Self
Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power
2019
as Self - Filmmaker
Hollywood's Second World War
2019
as Self
- No poster
Fuck the Message
2019
as Self
Sympathisanten - Unser deutscher Herbst
2018
as Self
Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder
2017
as Self
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
2017
as Self
Tangerine Dream: Sound from Another World
2016
as Self
Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century
2015
as Self - Filmmaker
From Caligari to Hitler
2015
as Self - Filmmaker
- No poster
The Poet and the Filmmaker: Volker Schlöndorff on Baal
2015
as Interviewer