Volker Schlöndorff
Born
March 31, 1939 (86 years old)
Known For
Directing
Place of Birth
Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany
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

Pan Olbrychski
Self
2025

Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit
Self
2024

Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg
Self
2024

The Stones and Brian Jones
Self
2024

German Genius
Volker Schlöndorff · (1 episode)
2023

Merkel
Self
2022

Werner Herzog - Radikaler Träumer
Self
2022

Alain Resnais, l'audacieux
Self
2022

Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
Self
2022

Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion
Self
2022
Studio 3 – Live aus Babelsberg
Self · (2 episodes)
2022

A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
Self
2021

Volker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the Drum
Self - Filmmaker
2020

Last Year in Dachau
Self - Narrator (voice)
2020

Melville, le dernier samouraï
Self
2020

Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power
Self - Filmmaker
2019

Hollywood's Second World War
Self
2019
Fuck the Message
Self
2019
Was tut sich - im deutschen Film?
Himself · (1 episode)
2018

Sympathisanten - Unser deutscher Herbst
Self
2018

Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder
Self
2017

Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
Self
2017

Tangerine Dream: Sound from Another World
Self
2016

Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century
Self - Filmmaker
2015

From Caligari to Hitler
Self - Filmmaker
2015
The Poet and the Filmmaker: Volker Schlöndorff on Baal
Interviewer
2015

Fassbinder
Self
2015

Henri Langlois vu par...
Self
2014
Bewegte Republik Deutschland
Self · (4 episodes)
2014
Open Opera – Wer wird Carmen?
Self · (7 episodes)
2012

Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
Self
2012

Square
Self · (1 episode)
2012
Günther Jauch
Self · (1 episode)
2011

Nuits transparentes
2011
Was wurde aus...?
himself · (1 episode)
2011

Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Narrator (French version) (voice) (uncredited)
2010

Michael Nyman in Progress
Self
2010
Museums-Check mit Markus Brock
Self · (1 episode)
2010

Code Name: Melville
Self
2010
Westpol: Eins zu eins
self · (1 episode)
2010
Memories of Last Year in Marienbad
Himself - Narrator
2010

Melville Steps Out of the Shadows
Interviewee
2010

Unraveling the Enigma: The Making of Marienbad
Self
2009

Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial
himself
2009

Malle's Fire Within
Self
2008

Filmmakers in Action
Self
2006

Billy Wilder Speaks
Self - Filmmaker / Interviewer
2006

Knef - Die frühen Jahre
Self
2005
Gottschalk meets Petersen
Himself
2005

Who is Helene Schwarz?
Self
2005
Von Sex bis Simmel
Self
2005

Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands
Self (Interviewee)
2004
Die Verhoevens
Himself
2003

Un film et son époque
Self · (1 episode)
2003
Gero von Boehm begegnet...
Self · (1 episode)
2002

Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
Self
2002
Ein Produzent hat Seele oder er hat keine
Self
2002
Im Glashaus - Das philosophische Quartett
himself · (1 episode)
2002

Volker Schlöndorff Remembers The Tin Drum
Self
2001

Abendschau
Self · (1 episode)
2000

Abendschau
self · (1 episode)
2000
Schrott - Die Atzenposse
2000

maybrit illner
Self · (1 episode)
1999
Volle Kanne
Self · (1 episode)
1999

Beckmann
Self · (1 episode)
1999
Alpha Forum
Self · (1 episode)
1998
Nachtstudio
Self · (2 episodes)
1997
Im Dialog
self · (1 episode)
1997

Die Harald Schmidt Show
Self · (1 episode)
1995

The Night of the Filmmakers
Self
1995

Billy, How Did You Do It?
Self · (6 episodes)
1992

Morgenmagazin
Self · (1 episode)
1992

I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
Self
1992

Billy, How Did You Do It?
Self
1992

Film Hour
Self
1991
Zeil um Zehn
Self · (1 episode)
1990
Romy Award
Self · (1 episode)
1990
ZDF-Mittagsmagazin
Self · (1 episode)
1989

Nachtcafé
Self · (1 episode)
1987

Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
Self - The Director
1986

American Masters
Self · (1 episode)
1986

Humor ist eine ernste Sache - Der Filmregisseur Kurt Hoffmann
Self
1985

Hands Up!
Self (1981 footage)
1985
Goldene Kamera Verleihung
Self · (1 episode)
1984

Champs-Elysées
Self · (1 episode)
1982
Bayerischer Filmpreis
Self · (1 episode)
1979

NDR Talk Show
Self · (2 episodes)
1979

Cinématon
N°572
1978

Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
Self
1976

Kölner Treff
Self · (1 episode)
1976

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self · (1 episode)
1975

De qui dépend que l’oppression demeure ?
Self
1975
3 nach 9
Self · (1 episode)
1974

Spécial cinéma
Self · (2 episodes)
1974
Je später der Abend
Self · (1 episode)
1973

Mathias Kneißl
1971

11 Uhr 20
Barkeepeer Henry · (3 episodes)
1970
Titel, Thesen, Temperamente
Self · (2 episodes)
1967

Neuer Deutscher Film Report
1967

Chance at Love
German soldier (segment "Chance du guerrier, La") (uncredited)
1964

Le Doulos
Man in Bar (uncredited)
1962

Léon Morin, Priest
German Soldier (uncredited)
1961
Deutscher Filmpreis
Self · (3 episodes)
1951