Volker Schlöndorff
Known for Directing · 103 credits
- Born
- 1939-03-31 (age 87)
- Place of birth
- 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
TV Shows (42)
Morgenmagazin
1992
as Self
Abendschau
2000
as Self / self
Die Harald Schmidt Show
1995
as Self
Champs-Elysées
1982
as Self
Volle Kanne
1999
as Self
Kölner Treff
1976
as Self
NDR Talk Show
1979
as Self
American Masters
1986
as Self
Nachtcafé
1987
as Self
Beckmann
1999
as Self
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
as Self
Spécial cinéma
1974
as Self
3 nach 9
1974
as Self
Alpha Forum
1998
as Self
maybrit illner
1999
as Self
ZDF-Mittagsmagazin
1989
as Self
German Film Award
1951
as Self
Goldene Kamera
1984
as Self
Bavarian Film Awards
1979
as Self
Romy Award
1990
as Self
Im Dialog
1997
as self
Titel, Thesen, Temperamente
1967
as Self
Nachtstudio
1997
as Self
Westpol
2010
as self
Günther Jauch
2011
as Self
Square
2012
as Self
Gero von Boehm begegnet...
2002
as Self
Studio 3 - Live aus Babelsberg
2022
as Self
German Genius
2023
as Volker Schlöndorff
Je später der Abend
1973
as Self
Un film et son époque
2003
as Self
Zeil um Zehn
1990
as Self
Museums-Check mit Markus Brock
2010
as Self
Was wurde aus...?
2011
as himself
11 Uhr 20
1970
as Barkeepeer Henry
Im Glashaus - Das philosophische Quartett
2002
as himself
Film Lesson
1991
as Self
Bewegte Republik Deutschland
2014
as Self
Billy, How Did You Do It?
1992
as Self
Was tut sich - im deutschen Film?
2018
as Himself
Open Opera – Wer wird Carmen?
2012
as Self
Mein liebster Dokumentarfilm
2026
as Self
Movies (61)
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
2017
as Self
Le Doulos
1962
as Man in Bar (uncredited)
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
2010
as Narrator (French version) (voice) (uncredited)
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
2022
as Self
Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power
2019
as Self - Filmmaker
Code Name: Melville
2010
as Self
Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg
2024
as Self
Léon Morin, Priest
1961
as German Soldier (uncredited)
Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion
2022
as Self
Cinématon
1978
as N°572
Henri Langlois vu par...
2014
as Self
Filmmakers in Action
2006
as Self
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
1986
as Self - The Director
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
2021
as Self
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
2012
as Self
The Stones and Brian Jones
2024
as Self
Chance at Love
1964
as German soldier (segment "Chance du guerrier, La") (uncredited)
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
2022
as Self
Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder
2017
as Self
Melville, le dernier samouraï
2020
as Self
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
2002
as Self
Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century
2015
as Self - Filmmaker
Who is Helene Schwarz?
2005
as Self
Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands
2004
as Self (Interviewee)
From Caligari to Hitler
2015
as Self - Filmmaker
Hands Up!
1985
as Self (1981 footage)
Pan Olbrychski
2025
as Self
Hollywood's Second World War
2019
as Self
Neuer Deutscher Film Report
1967
Billy Wilder Speaks
2006
as Self - Filmmaker / Interviewer
Fassbinder
2015
as Self
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
1976
as Self
Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial
2009
as himself
Merkel
2022
as Self
Alain Resnais, the Audacious
2022
as Self
Von Sex bis Simmel
2005
as Self
Humor ist eine ernste Sache - Der Filmregisseur Kurt Hoffmann
1985
as Self
Die Verhoevens
2003
as Himself
I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
1992
as Self
Mathias Kneißl
1971
The Night of the Filmmakers
1995
as Self
Last Year in Dachau
2020
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Volker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the Drum
2020
as Self - Filmmaker
Tangerine Dream: Sound from Another World
2016
as Self
Schrott - Die Atzenposse
2000
Ein Produzent hat Seele oder er hat keine
2002
as Self
De qui dépend que l’oppression demeure ?
1975
as Self
Billy, How Did You Do It?
1992
as Self
Michael Nyman in Progress
2010
as Self
Sympathisanten - Unser deutscher Herbst
2018
as Self
Gottschalk meets Petersen
2005
as Himself
Volker Schlöndorff Remembers The Tin Drum
2001
as Self
Melville Steps Out of the Shadows
2010
as Interviewee
Knef - Die frühen Jahre
2005
as Self
Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit
2024
as Self
Unraveling the Enigma: The Making of Marienbad
2009
as Self
Nuits transparentes
2011
The Poet and the Filmmaker: Volker Schlöndorff on Baal
2015
as Interviewer
Memories of Last Year in Marienbad
2010
as Himself - Narrator
Malle's Fire Within
2008
as Self
Fuck the Message
2019
as Self
About Volker Schlöndorff
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.… With 103 credits spanning from 1951 to 2026, Volker Schlöndorff has appeared in 61 films and 42 TV shows.
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- Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life (2017) — as Self
- Le Doulos (1962) — as Man in Bar (uncredited)
- Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) — as Narrator (French version) (voice) (uncredited)
- Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer (2022) — as Self
- Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power (2019) — as Self - Filmmaker
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