Volker Schlöndorff
Directing • Born 1939-03-31
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
104 credits
Humor ist eine ernste Sache - Der Filmregisseur Kurt Hoffmann
Movie • 1985
Self
From Caligari to Hitler
Movie • 2015
Self - Filmmaker
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Movie • 2010
Narrator (French version) (voice) (uncredited)
The Stones and Brian Jones
Movie • 2024
Self
Mathias Kneißl
Movie • 1971
I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
Movie • 1992
Self
Code Name: Melville
Movie • 2010
Self
Ein Produzent hat Seele oder er hat keine
Movie • 2002
Self
The Night of the Filmmakers
Movie • 1995
Self
Von Sex bis Simmel
Movie • 2005
Self
Die Verhoevens
Movie • 2003
Himself
Hands Up!
Movie • 1985
Self (1981 footage)
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
Movie • 1986
Self - The Director
Who is Helene Schwarz?
Movie • 2005
Self
Billy, How Did You Do It?
Movie • 1992
Self
Malle's Fire Within
Movie • 2008
Self
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
Movie • 2022
Self
Memories of Last Year in Marienbad
Movie • 2010
Himself - Narrator
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
Movie • 2012
Self
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
Movie • 2022
Self
Schrott - Die Atzenposse
Movie • 2000
Fassbinder
Movie • 2015
Self
Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion
Movie • 2022
Self
Michael Nyman in Progress
Movie • 2010
Self
Chance at Love
Movie • 1964
German soldier (segment "Chance du guerrier, La") (uncredited)
Merkel
Movie • 2022
Self
Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit
Movie • 2024
Self
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
Movie • 2002
Self
Melville Steps Out of the Shadows
Movie • 2010
Interviewee
Neuer Deutscher Film Report
Movie • 1967
Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands
Movie • 2004
Self (Interviewee)
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
Movie • 1976
Self
Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder
Movie • 2017
Self
Cinématon
Movie • 1978
N°572
Billy Wilder Speaks
Movie • 2006
Self - Filmmaker / Interviewer
Filmmakers in Action
Movie • 2006
Self
Léon Morin, Priest
Movie • 1961
German Soldier (uncredited)
Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century
Movie • 2015
Self - Filmmaker
Nuits transparentes
Movie • 2011
The Poet and the Filmmaker: Volker Schlöndorff on Baal
Movie • 2015
Interviewer
Gottschalk meets Petersen
Movie • 2005
Himself
Sympathisanten - Unser deutscher Herbst
Movie • 2018
Self
Hollywood's Second World War
Movie • 2019
Self
Volker Schlöndorff Remembers The Tin Drum
Movie • 2001
Self
Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power
Movie • 2019
Self - Filmmaker
Tangerine Dream: Sound from Another World
Movie • 2016
Self
Knef - Die frühen Jahre
Movie • 2005
Self
Unraveling the Enigma: The Making of Marienbad
Movie • 2009
Self
Melville, le dernier samouraï
Movie • 2020
Self
Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial
Movie • 2009
himself
Henri Langlois vu par...
Movie • 2014
Self
Volker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the Drum
Movie • 2020
Self - Filmmaker
Fuck the Message
Movie • 2019
Self
Last Year in Dachau
Movie • 2020
Self - Narrator (voice)
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
Movie • 2021
Self
Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg
Movie • 2024
Self
Pan Olbrychski
Movie • 2025
Self
Alain Resnais, the Audacious
Movie • 2022
Self
Le Doulos
Movie • 1962
Man in Bar (uncredited)
De qui dépend que l’oppression demeure ?
Movie • 1975
Self
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
Movie • 2017
Self
Un film et son époque
TV • 2003
Self
ZDF-Mittagsmagazin
TV • 1989
Self
Bewegte Republik Deutschland
TV • 2014
Self
American Masters
TV • 1986
Self
Die Harald Schmidt Show
TV • 1995
Self
Günther Jauch
TV • 2011
Self
Spécial cinéma
TV • 1974
Self
Museums-Check mit Markus Brock
TV • 2010
Self
Open Opera – Wer wird Carmen?
TV • 2012
Self
German Film Award
TV • 1951
Self
Goldene Kamera
TV • 1984
Self
Romy Award
TV • 1990
Self
Bavarian Film Awards
TV • 1979
Self
Billy, How Did You Do It?
TV • 1992
Self
Was tut sich - im deutschen Film?
TV • 2018
Himself
Volle Kanne
TV • 1999
Self
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
TV • 1975
Self
Square
TV • 2012
Self
Kölner Treff
TV • 1976
Self
Champs-Elysées
TV • 1982
Self
Studio 3 - Live aus Babelsberg
TV • 2022
Self
Nachtcafé
TV • 1987
Self
maybrit illner
TV • 1999
Self
Alpha Forum
TV • 1998
Self
NDR Talk Show
TV • 1979
Self
3 nach 9
TV • 1974
Self
Beckmann
TV • 1999
Self
Je später der Abend
TV • 1973
Self
Nachtstudio
TV • 1997
Self
Gero von Boehm begegnet...
TV • 2002
Self
Titel, Thesen, Temperamente
TV • 1967
Self
Im Glashaus - Das philosophische Quartett
TV • 2002
himself
Was wurde aus...?
TV • 2011
himself
Zeil um Zehn
TV • 1990
Self
Abendschau
TV • 2000
Self
Abendschau
TV • 2000
self
Im Dialog
TV • 1997
self
Westpol: Eins zu eins
TV • 2010
self
German Genius
TV • 2023
Volker Schlöndorff
Morgenmagazin
TV • 1992
Self
11 Uhr 20
TV • 1970
Barkeepeer Henry
Film Lesson
TV • 1991
Self
Mein liebster Dokumentarfilm
TV • 2026
Self