Volker Schlöndorff
Born: 1939-03-31 in Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany
Known For: Directing
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.
Filmography
2026
- Mein liebster Dokumentarfilm as Self
- Visitation ... (Writer)
- Igor and After
2025
- Pan Olbrychski as Self
2024
2023
- German Genius as Volker Schlöndorff
2022
- Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer as Self
- Studio 3 - Live aus Babelsberg as Self
- Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion as Self
- Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors as Self
- The Forest Maker ... (Director)
- Alain Resnais, the Audacious as Self
- Merkel as Self
2021
- A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner as Self
2020
- Last Year in Dachau as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Volker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the Drum as Self - Filmmaker
- Melville, le dernier samouraï as Self
2019
- Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power as Self - Filmmaker
- Hollywood's Second World War as Self
- Fuck the Message as Self
2018
- Was tut sich - im deutschen Film? as Himself
- Sympathisanten - Unser deutscher Herbst as Self
2017
- Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life as Self
- Return to Montauk ... (Producer)
- Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder as Self
- The Nameless Day ... (Writer)
2016
2015
- From Caligari to Hitler as Self - Filmmaker
- Fassbinder as Self
- Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century as Self - Filmmaker
- The Poet and the Filmmaker: Volker Schlöndorff on Baal as Interviewer
2014
- Diplomacy ... (Director)
- Bewegte Republik Deutschland as Self
- Henri Langlois vu par... as Self
2012
- Square as Self
- Calm at Sea ... (Director)
- Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections as Self
- Open Opera – Wer wird Carmen? as Self
2011
- Günther Jauch as Self
- Was wurde aus...? as himself
- Nuits transparentes
2010
- Westpol as self
- Cave of Forgotten Dreams as Narrator (French version) (voice) (uncredited)
- Museums-Check mit Markus Brock as Self
- Code Name: Melville as Self
- Michael Nyman in Progress as Self
- Melville Steps Out of the Shadows as Interviewee
- Memories of Last Year in Marienbad as Himself - Narrator
2009
2008
- Malle's Fire Within as Self
2006
- Filmmakers in Action as Self
- Billy Wilder Speaks as Self - Filmmaker / Interviewer
2005
- Von Sex bis Simmel as Self
- Knef - Die frühen Jahre as Self
- Who is Helene Schwarz? as Self
- Enigma – Eine uneingestandene Liebe ... (Director)
- Gottschalk meets Petersen as Himself
2004
- The Ninth Day ... (Director)
- Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands as Self (Interviewee)
2003
- Un film et son époque as Self
- Die Verhoevens as Himself
2002
- Gero von Boehm begegnet... as Self
- Im Glashaus - Das philosophische Quartett as himself
- Everyman's Feast ... (Producer)
- Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song as Self
- Ten Minutes Older: The Cello ... (Director)
- The Enlightenment ... (Director)
- Ein Produzent hat Seele oder er hat keine as Self
2001
2000
- Abendschau as Self
- The Legend of Rita ... (Director)
- Schrott - Die Atzenposse
1999
- Volle Kanne as Self
- maybrit illner as Self
- Beckmann as Self
1998
- Alpha Forum as Self
- Palmetto ... (Director)
1997
- Im Dialog as self
- Nachtstudio as Self
1996
- The Ogre ... (Director)
- The Ice Princess ... (Executive Producer)
1995
- Die Harald Schmidt Show as Self
- The Night of the Filmmakers as Self
1992
- Morgenmagazin as Self
- Billy, How Did You Do It? as Self
- I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me as Self
- Billy, How Did You Do It? as Self
- The Michael Nyman Songbook ... (Director)
1991
- Film Lesson as Self
- Voyager ... (Director)
1990
- Romy Award as Self
- The Handmaid's Tale ... (Director)
- Zeil um Zehn as Self
1989
- ZDF-Mittagsmagazin as Self
1987
- Nachtcafé as Self
- A Gathering of Old Men ... (Director)
1986
- American Masters as Self
- Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’ as Self - The Director
1985
- Death of a Salesman ... (Director)
- Hands Up! as Self (1981 footage)
- Humor ist eine ernste Sache - Der Filmregisseur Kurt Hoffmann as Self
1984
- Goldene Kamera as Self
- Swann in Love ... (Director)
1982
- Champs-Elysées as Self
- War and Peace ... (Director)
1981
- Circle of Deceit ... (Director)
1980
- The Candidate ... (Director)
1979
- NDR Talk Show as Self
- Bavarian Film Awards as Self
- The Tin Drum ... (Director)
1978
- Germany in Autumn ... (Director)
- Cinématon as N°572
- Beto Nervio contra el poder de las tinieblas ... (Associate Producer)
1977
- Portrait of Valeska Gert ... (Director)
1976
- Kölner Treff as Self
- Henry James Stories ... (Director)
- Coup de Grâce ... (Director)
- Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema as Self
1975
- Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
- The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum ... (Director)
- Georginas Gründe ... (Director)
- De qui dépend que l’oppression demeure ? as Self
1974
- Spécial cinéma as Self
- 3 nach 9 as Self
- Stayover in Tirol ... (Director)
1973
- Je später der Abend as Self
1972
- A Free Woman ... (Director)
- The Morals of Ruth Halbfass ... (Director)
1971
- Rio das Mortes ... (Idea)
- Mathias Kneißl
- The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach ... (Director)
1969
- Michael Kohlhaas - The Rebel ... (Director)
1967
- Titel, Thesen, Temperamente as Self
- Degree of Murder ... (Director)
- Neuer Deutscher Film Report
- Der Paukenspieler ... (Director)
1966
- Young Törless ... (Writer)
1965
- Viva Maria! ... (Assistant Director)
1964
- Chance at Love as German soldier (segment "Chance du guerrier, La") (uncredited)
1963
- The Fire Within ... (Assistant Director)
- Méditerranée ... (Co-Director)
1962
- A Very Private Affair ... (Assistant Director)
- Le Doulos as Man in Bar (uncredited)
1961
- Last Year at Marienbad ... (Second Assistant Director)
- Léon Morin, Priest as German Soldier (uncredited)
1960
- Who Cares... ... (Director)
1951
- German Film Award as Self