Volker Schlöndorff

Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Known Credits

103

Gender

Male

Birthday

1939-03-31 (86 years old)

Place of Birth

Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany

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.

Known For

  • Die Harald Schmidt Show

    Die Harald Schmidt Show

  • Volle Kanne

    Volle Kanne

  • Morgenmagazin

    Morgenmagazin

  • Abendschau

    Abendschau

  • Abendschau

    Abendschau

  • NDR Talk Show

    NDR Talk Show

  • Alpha Forum

    Alpha Forum

  • Nachtcafé

    Nachtcafé

  • Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors

    Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors

  • Champs-Elysées

    Champs-Elysées

  • A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner

    A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner

  • Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life

    Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life

  • ZDF-Mittagsmagazin

    ZDF-Mittagsmagazin

  • Kölner Treff

    Kölner Treff

  • Beckmann

    Beckmann

  • I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me

    I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me

  • 3 nach 9

    3 nach 9

  • German Film Award

    German Film Award

  • Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

    Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

  • Spécial cinéma

    Spécial cinéma

  • American Masters

    American Masters

  • maybrit illner

    maybrit illner

  • Goldene Kamera

    Goldene Kamera

  • Im Dialog

    Im Dialog

  • Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands

    Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands

  • Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power

    Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power

  • Romy Award

    Romy Award

  • Nachtstudio

    Nachtstudio

  • De qui dépend que l’oppression demeure ?

    De qui dépend que l’oppression demeure ?

  • Bavarian Film Awards

    Bavarian Film Awards

  • Westpol: Eins zu eins

    Westpol: Eins zu eins

  • Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema

    Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema

  • Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit

    Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit

  • Humor ist eine ernste Sache - Der Filmregisseur Kurt Hoffmann

    Humor ist eine ernste Sache - Der Filmregisseur Kurt Hoffmann

  • Mathias Kneißl

    Mathias Kneißl

  • Zeil um Zehn

    Zeil um Zehn

  • Gero von Boehm begegnet...

    Gero von Boehm begegnet...

  • Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder

    Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder

  • Titel, Thesen, Temperamente

    Titel, Thesen, Temperamente

  • Studio 3 – Live aus Babelsberg

    Studio 3 – Live aus Babelsberg

  • Neuer Deutscher Film Report

    Neuer Deutscher Film Report

  • The Poet and the Filmmaker: Volker Schlöndorff on Baal

    The Poet and the Filmmaker: Volker Schlöndorff on Baal

  • Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’

    Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’

  • Fassbinder

    Fassbinder

  • Cave of Forgotten Dreams

    Cave of Forgotten Dreams

  • Nuits transparentes

    Nuits transparentes

  • Square

    Square

  • Günther Jauch

    Günther Jauch

  • Je später der Abend

    Je später der Abend

  • German Genius

    German Genius

  • Merkel

    Merkel

  • Unraveling the Enigma: The Making of Marienbad

    Unraveling the Enigma: The Making of Marienbad

  • From Caligari to Hitler

    From Caligari to Hitler

  • Museums-Check mit Markus Brock

    Museums-Check mit Markus Brock

  • Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion

    Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion

  • Die Verhoevens

    Die Verhoevens

  • The Stones and Brian Jones

    The Stones and Brian Jones

  • Un film et son époque

    Un film et son époque

  • Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg

    Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg

  • Hands Up!

    Hands Up!

  • Léon Morin, Priest

    Léon Morin, Priest

  • Code Name: Melville

    Code Name: Melville

  • Filmmakers in Action

    Filmmakers in Action

  • Who is Helene Schwarz?

    Who is Helene Schwarz?

  • The Night of the Filmmakers

    The Night of the Filmmakers

  • Melville, le dernier samouraï

    Melville, le dernier samouraï

  • Im Glashaus - Das philosophische Quartett

    Im Glashaus - Das philosophische Quartett

  • Alain Resnais, the Audacious

    Alain Resnais, the Audacious

  • Was wurde aus...?

    Was wurde aus...?

  • Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections

    Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections

  • Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer

    Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer

  • Michael Nyman in Progress

    Michael Nyman in Progress

  • Henri Langlois vu par...

    Henri Langlois vu par...

  • Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial

    Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial

  • Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song

    Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song

  • Chance at Love

    Chance at Love

  • 11 Uhr 20

    11 Uhr 20

  • Malle's Fire Within

    Malle's Fire Within

  • Hollywood's Second World War

    Hollywood's Second World War

  • Le Doulos

    Le Doulos

  • Sympathisanten - Unser deutscher Herbst

    Sympathisanten - Unser deutscher Herbst

  • Volker Schlöndorff Remembers The Tin Drum

    Volker Schlöndorff Remembers The Tin Drum

  • Tangerine Dream: Sound from Another World

    Tangerine Dream: Sound from Another World

  • Cinématon

    Cinématon

  • Knef - Die frühen Jahre

    Knef - Die frühen Jahre

  • Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century

    Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century

  • Billy, How Did You Do It?

    Billy, How Did You Do It?

  • Memories of Last Year in Marienbad

    Memories of Last Year in Marienbad

  • Billy, How Did You Do It?

    Billy, How Did You Do It?

  • Was tut sich - im deutschen Film?

    Was tut sich - im deutschen Film?

  • Bewegte Republik Deutschland

    Bewegte Republik Deutschland

  • Last Year in Dachau

    Last Year in Dachau

  • Ein Produzent hat Seele oder er hat keine

    Ein Produzent hat Seele oder er hat keine

  • Pan Olbrychski

    Pan Olbrychski

  • Volker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the Drum

    Volker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the Drum

  • Billy Wilder Speaks

    Billy Wilder Speaks

  • Von Sex bis Simmel

    Von Sex bis Simmel

  • Melville Steps Out of the Shadows

    Melville Steps Out of the Shadows

  • Open Opera – Wer wird Carmen?

    Open Opera – Wer wird Carmen?

  • Film Hour

    Film Hour

  • Gottschalk meets Petersen

    Gottschalk meets Petersen

  • Schrott - Die Atzenposse

    Schrott - Die Atzenposse

  • Fuck the Message

    Fuck the Message