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

  • Morgenmagazin

    Morgenmagazin

  • NDR Talk Show

    NDR Talk Show

  • Volle Kanne

    Volle Kanne

  • Abendschau

    Abendschau

  • Abendschau

    Abendschau

  • Nachtcafé

    Nachtcafé

  • A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner

    A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner

  • Alpha Forum

    Alpha Forum

  • Champs-Elysées

    Champs-Elysées

  • Kölner Treff

    Kölner Treff

  • ZDF-Mittagsmagazin

    ZDF-Mittagsmagazin

  • Beckmann

    Beckmann

  • 3 nach 9

    3 nach 9

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

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

  • Spécial cinéma

    Spécial cinéma

  • Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

    Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

  • American Masters

    American Masters

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

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

  • maybrit illner

    maybrit illner

  • Im Dialog

    Im Dialog

  • Goldene Kamera

    Goldene Kamera

  • Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors

    Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors

  • German Film Award

    German Film Award

  • Romy Award

    Romy Award

  • Bavarian Film Awards

    Bavarian Film Awards

  • Nachtstudio

    Nachtstudio

  • Westpol: Eins zu eins

    Westpol: Eins zu eins

  • Mathias Kneißl

    Mathias Kneißl

  • Nuits transparentes

    Nuits transparentes

  • Fassbinder

    Fassbinder

  • Gero von Boehm begegnet...

    Gero von Boehm begegnet...

  • Studio 3 – Live aus Babelsberg

    Studio 3 – Live aus Babelsberg

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

    Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands

  • Square

    Square

  • Titel, Thesen, Temperamente

    Titel, Thesen, Temperamente

  • Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema

    Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema

  • De qui dépend que l’oppression demeure ?

    De qui dépend que l’oppression demeure ?

  • Zeil um Zehn

    Zeil um Zehn

  • The Night of the Filmmakers

    The Night of the Filmmakers

  • The Poet and the Filmmaker: Volker Schlöndorff on Baal

    The Poet and the Filmmaker: Volker Schlöndorff on Baal

  • Léon Morin, Priest

    Léon Morin, Priest

  • German Genius

    German Genius

  • Hands Up!

    Hands Up!

  • Filmmakers in Action

    Filmmakers in Action

  • Günther Jauch

    Günther Jauch

  • Die Verhoevens

    Die Verhoevens

  • Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit

    Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit

  • Museums-Check mit Markus Brock

    Museums-Check mit Markus Brock

  • Je später der Abend

    Je später der Abend

  • Code Name: Melville

    Code Name: Melville

  • From Caligari to Hitler

    From Caligari to Hitler

  • Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg

    Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg

  • Neuer Deutscher Film Report

    Neuer Deutscher Film Report

  • Un film et son époque

    Un film et son époque

  • Alain Resnais, the Audacious

    Alain Resnais, the Audacious

  • Cave of Forgotten Dreams

    Cave of Forgotten Dreams

  • The Stones and Brian Jones

    The Stones and Brian Jones

  • Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer

    Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer

  • Henri Langlois vu par...

    Henri Langlois vu par...

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

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

  • Merkel

    Merkel

  • Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder

    Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder

  • Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections

    Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections

  • Who is Helene Schwarz?

    Who is Helene Schwarz?

  • Michael Nyman in Progress

    Michael Nyman in Progress

  • Was wurde aus...?

    Was wurde aus...?

  • Chance at Love

    Chance at Love

  • Hollywood's Second World War

    Hollywood's Second World War

  • Malle's Fire Within

    Malle's Fire Within

  • Im Glashaus - Das philosophische Quartett

    Im Glashaus - Das philosophische Quartett

  • Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song

    Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song

  • Sympathisanten - Unser deutscher Herbst

    Sympathisanten - Unser deutscher Herbst

  • Melville, le dernier samouraï

    Melville, le dernier samouraï

  • Le Doulos

    Le Doulos

  • Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion

    Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion

  • 11 Uhr 20

    11 Uhr 20

  • Knef - Die frühen Jahre

    Knef - Die frühen Jahre

  • Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial

    Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial

  • Was tut sich - im deutschen Film?

    Was tut sich - im deutschen Film?

  • Billy, How Did You Do It?

    Billy, How Did You Do It?

  • Pan Olbrychski

    Pan Olbrychski

  • Cinématon

    Cinématon

  • Tangerine Dream: Sound from Another World

    Tangerine Dream: Sound from Another World

  • Last Year in Dachau

    Last Year in Dachau

  • Memories of Last Year in Marienbad

    Memories of Last Year in Marienbad

  • Ein Produzent hat Seele oder er hat keine

    Ein Produzent hat Seele oder er hat keine

  • I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me

    I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me

  • Bewegte Republik Deutschland

    Bewegte Republik Deutschland

  • Von Sex bis Simmel

    Von Sex bis Simmel

  • Open Opera – Wer wird Carmen?

    Open Opera – Wer wird Carmen?

  • Billy Wilder Speaks

    Billy Wilder Speaks

  • Melville Steps Out of the Shadows

    Melville Steps Out of the Shadows

  • Volker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the Drum

    Volker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the Drum

  • Humor ist eine ernste Sache - Der Filmregisseur Kurt Hoffmann

    Humor ist eine ernste Sache - Der Filmregisseur Kurt Hoffmann

  • Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century

    Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century

  • Gottschalk meets Petersen

    Gottschalk meets Petersen

  • Unraveling the Enigma: The Making of Marienbad

    Unraveling the Enigma: The Making of Marienbad

  • Schrott - Die Atzenposse

    Schrott - Die Atzenposse

  • Film Hour

    Film Hour

  • Volker Schlöndorff Remembers The Tin Drum

    Volker Schlöndorff Remembers The Tin Drum

  • Fuck the Message

    Fuck the Message

  • Billy, How Did You Do It?

    Billy, How Did You Do It?