Name
Volker Schlöndorff
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1939-03-31 (87 years old)
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
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In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a...
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In a dystopian, polluted right-wing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slav...
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At a weekend gathering, a man tells a woman that they had spent time there together a year...
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Barny, although a Marxist, is intrigued by the mysteries of religion. In confession, she t...
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To escape his crumbling marriage, German journalist Laschen travels to Beirut during the f...
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In Belle Époque Paris, a 19th-century Parisian aristocrat falls in love with a lower-clas...
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After accidentally killing her ex-lover during a fight, Marie enlists the help of a strang...
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Author Max Zorn, now in his early 60s, is on a promotional book tour in New York when he e...
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Willy Loman, an aging, failing salesman, struggles to accept reality and his failure to ac...
- 1985 Humor ist eine ernste Sache - Der Filmregisseur Kurt Hoffmann as Self
- 2015 From Caligari to Hitler as Self - Filmmaker
- 2010 Cave of Forgotten Dreams as Narrator (French version) (voice) (uncredited)
- 2024 The Stones and Brian Jones as Self
- 1971 Mathias Kneißl
- 1992 I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me as Self
- 2010 Code Name: Melville as Self
- 2002 Ein Produzent hat Seele oder er hat keine as Self
- 1995 The Night of the Filmmakers as Self
- 2005 Von Sex bis Simmel as Self
- 2003 Die Verhoevens as Himself
- 1985 Hands Up! as Self (1981 footage)
- 1986 Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’ as Self - The Director
- 2005 Who is Helene Schwarz? as Self
- 1992 Billy, How Did You Do It? as Self
- 2008 Malle's Fire Within as Self
- 2022 Come with Me to the Cinema – The Gregors as Self
- 2010 Memories of Last Year in Marienbad as Himself - Narrator
- 2012 Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections as Self
- 2022 Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer as Self
- 2000 Schrott - Die Atzenposse
- 2015 Fassbinder as Self
- 2022 Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion as Self
- 2010 Michael Nyman in Progress as Self
- 1964 Chance at Love as German soldier (segment "Chance du guerrier, La") (uncredited)
- 2022 Merkel as Self
- 2024 Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit as Self
- 2002 Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song as Self
- 2010 Melville Steps Out of the Shadows as Interviewee
- 1967 Neuer Deutscher Film Report
- 2004 Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands as Self (Interviewee)
- 1976 Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema as Self
- 2017 Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder as Self
- 1978 Cinématon as N°572
- 2006 Billy Wilder Speaks as Self - Filmmaker / Interviewer
- 2006 Filmmakers in Action as Self
- 1961 Léon Morin, Priest as German Soldier (uncredited)
- 2015 Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century as Self - Filmmaker
- 2011 Nuits transparentes
- 2015 The Poet and the Filmmaker: Volker Schlöndorff on Baal as Interviewer
- 2005 Gottschalk meets Petersen as Himself
- 2018 Sympathisanten - Unser deutscher Herbst as Self
- 2019 Hollywood's Second World War as Self
- 2001 Volker Schlöndorff Remembers The Tin Drum as Self
- 2019 Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power as Self - Filmmaker
- 2016 Tangerine Dream: Sound from Another World as Self
- 2005 Knef - Die frühen Jahre as Self
- 2009 Unraveling the Enigma: The Making of Marienbad as Self
- 2020 Melville, le dernier samouraï as Self
- 2009 Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial as himself
- 2014 Henri Langlois vu par... as Self
- 2020 Volker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the Drum as Self - Filmmaker
- 2019 Fuck the Message as Self
- 2020 Last Year in Dachau as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2021 A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner as Self
- 2024 Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg as Self
- 2025 Pan Olbrychski as Self
- 2022 Alain Resnais, the Audacious as Self
- 1962 Le Doulos as Man in Bar (uncredited)
- 1975 De qui dépend que l’oppression demeure ? as Self
- 2017 Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life as Self
- Soon Ulrich Matthes - Leidenschaft und Haltung as Self
- 2026 Igor and After
- 2003 Un film et son époque ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1989 ZDF-Mittagsmagazin ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2014 Bewegte Republik Deutschland ( 4 episodes ) as Self
- 1986 American Masters ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1995 Die Harald Schmidt Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2011 Günther Jauch ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1974 Spécial cinéma ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 2010 Museums-Check mit Markus Brock ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2012 Open Opera – Wer wird Carmen? ( 7 episodes ) as Self
- 1951 German Film Award ( 3 episodes ) as Self
- 1984 Goldene Kamera ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1990 Romy Award ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1979 Bavarian Film Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1992 Billy, How Did You Do It? ( 6 episodes ) as Self
- 2018 Was tut sich - im deutschen Film? ( 1 episode ) as Himself
- 1999 Volle Kanne ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1975 Les Rendez-vous du dimanche ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2012 Square ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1976 Kölner Treff ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1982 Champs-Elysées ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2022 Studio 3 - Live aus Babelsberg ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1987 Nachtcafé ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1999 maybrit illner ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1998 Alpha Forum ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1979 NDR Talk Show ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1974 3 nach 9 ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1999 Beckmann ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1973 Je später der Abend ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1997 Nachtstudio ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 2002 Gero von Boehm begegnet... ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1967 Titel, Thesen, Temperamente ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2002 Im Glashaus - Das philosophische Quartett ( 1 episode ) as himself
- 2011 Was wurde aus...? ( 1 episode ) as himself
- 1990 Zeil um Zehn ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2000 Abendschau ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2000 Abendschau ( 1 episode ) as self
- 1997 Im Dialog ( 1 episode ) as self
- 2010 Westpol ( 1 episode ) as self
- 2023 German Genius ( 1 episode ) as Volker Schlöndorff
- 1992 Morgenmagazin ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1970 11 Uhr 20 ( 3 episodes ) as Barkeepeer Henry
- 1991 Film Lesson ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2026 Mein liebster Dokumentarfilm ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1978 Ciné regards ( 1 episode ) as Self
