Volker Schlöndorff
- Directing
- March 31, 1939 · 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
Filmography
- Visitation · Writer, Director
- Igor and After
- Mein liebster Dokumentarfilm · Self
- Pan Olbrychski · Self
- Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit · Self
- Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg · Self
- The Stones and Brian Jones · Self
- German Genius · Volker Schlöndorff
- Merkel · Self
- Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer · Self
- Alain Resnais, the Audacious · Self
- Come with Me to the Cinema – The Gregors · Self
- Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion · Self
- The Forest Maker · Director, Writer
- Studio 3 - Live aus Babelsberg · Self
- A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner · Self
- Volker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the Drum · Self
- Last Year in Dachau · Self
- Melville, le dernier samouraï · Self
- Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power · Self
- Hollywood's Second World War · Self
- Fuck the Message · Self
- Was tut sich - im deutschen Film? · Self
- Sympathisanten - Unser deutscher Herbst · Self
- Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder · Self
- The Nameless Day · Writer, Director
- Return to Montauk · Producer, Director
- Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life · Self
- Tangerine Dream: Sound from Another World · Self
- Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century · Self
- From Caligari to Hitler · Self
- The Poet and the Filmmaker: Volker Schlöndorff on Baal · Interviewer
- Fassbinder · Self
- Henri Langlois vu par... · Self, Director
- Diplomacy · Screenplay, Director
- Bewegte Republik Deutschland · Self
- Open Opera – Wer wird Carmen? · Self
- Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections · Self
- Calm at Sea · Director, Writer
- Square · Self
- Günther Jauch · Self
- Nuits transparentes
- Was wurde aus...? · Self
- Cave of Forgotten Dreams · Narrator (French version) (voice) (uncredited)
- Michael Nyman in Progress · Self
- Museums-Check mit Markus Brock · Self
- Code Name: Melville · Self
- Westpol · Self
- Memories of Last Year in Marienbad · Self, Producer
- Melville Steps Out of the Shadows · Interviewee
- Unraveling the Enigma: The Making of Marienbad · Self
- Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial · Self
- Malle's Fire Within · Self
- Ulzhan · Director
- Strike · Director
- Filmmakers in Action · Self
- Billy Wilder Speaks · Self, Editing
- Knef - Die frühen Jahre · Self
- Enigma – Eine uneingestandene Liebe · Director
- Gottschalk meets Petersen · Self
- Who is Helene Schwarz? · Self
- Von Sex bis Simmel · Self
- The Ninth Day · Director
- Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands · Self
- Die Verhoevens · Self
- Un film et son époque · Self
- Ten Minutes Older: The Cello · Director
- The Enlightenment · Director
- Gero von Boehm begegnet... · Self
- Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song · Self
- Ein Produzent hat Seele oder er hat keine · Self, Director
- Everyman's Feast · Producer
- Im Glashaus - Das philosophische Quartett · Self
- Volker Schlöndorff Remembers The Tin Drum · Self
- The Legend of Rita · Screenplay, Director
- Abendschau · Self
- Schrott - Die Atzenposse
- maybrit illner · Self
- Volle Kanne · Self
- Beckmann · Self