Volker Schlöndorff

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: Directing

Born: Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany, 1939-03-31

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1961	Léon Morin, Priest	German Soldier (uncredited)	70
2	1964	Chance at Love	German soldier (segment "Chance du guerrier, La") (uncredited)	58
3	1967	Neuer Deutscher Film Report		0
4	1971	Mathias Kneißl		50
5	1976	Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema	Self	0
6	1978	Cinématon	N°572	43
7	1985	Hands Up!	Self (1981 footage)	58
8	1985	Humor ist eine ernste Sache - Der Filmregisseur Kurt Hoffmann	Self	0
9	1986	Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’	Self - The Director	0
10	1991	Film Lesson	Self	55
11	1992	Billy, How Did You Do It?	Self	70
12	1992	I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me	Self	64
13	1995	The Night of the Filmmakers	Self	50
14	2000	Schrott - Die Atzenposse		0
15	2001	Volker Schlöndorff Remembers The Tin Drum	Self	0
16	2002	Ein Produzent hat Seele oder er hat keine	Self	0
17	2002	Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song	Self	64
18	2003	Die Verhoevens	Himself	0
19	2004	Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands	Self (Interviewee)	70
20	2005	Von Sex bis Simmel	Self	0
21	2005	Who is Helene Schwarz?	Self	0
22	2005	Gottschalk meets Petersen	Himself	0
23	2005	Knef - Die frühen Jahre	Self	0
24	2006	Billy Wilder Speaks	Self - Filmmaker / Interviewer	70
25	2006	Filmmakers in Action	Self	68
26	2008	Malle's Fire Within	Self	0
27	2008	Code Name: Melville	Self	67
28	2009	Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial	himself	0
29	2009	Unraveling the Enigma: The Making of Marienbad	Self	0
30	2010	Memories of Last Year in Marienbad	Himself - Narrator	0
31	2010	Melville Steps Out of the Shadows	Interviewee	0
32	2010	Michael Nyman in Progress	Self	15
33	2010	Cave of Forgotten Dreams	Narrator (French version) (voice) (uncredited)	71
34	2011	Nuits transparentes		0
35	2011	Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections	Self	0
36	2014	Henri Langlois vu par...	Self	0
37	2015	Fassbinder	Self	62
38	2015	The Poet and the Filmmaker: Volker Schlöndorff on Baal	Interviewer	0
39	2015	From Caligari to Hitler	Self - Filmmaker	74
40	2015	Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century	Self - Filmmaker	75
41	2016	Tangerine Dream: Sound from Another World	Self	0
42	2017	Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder	Self	73
43	2018	Sympathisanten - Unser deutscher Herbst	Self	50
44	2019	Fuck the Message	Self	0
45	2019	Hollywood's Second World War	Self	80
46	2019	Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power	Self - Filmmaker	68
47	2020	Melville, le dernier samouraï	Self	78
48	2020	Last Year in Dachau	Self - Narrator (voice)	40
49	2020	Volker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the Drum	Self - Filmmaker	0
50	2021	A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner	Self	85
51	2022	Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion	Self	72
52	2022	Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors	Volker Schlöndorff	0
53	2022	Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer	Self	79
54	2022	Merkel	Self	71
55	2024	The Stones and Brian Jones	Self	80
56	2024	Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg	Self	80
57	2024	Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit	Himself	75

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1951	Deutscher Filmpreis	Self	60
2	1966	Goldene Kamera Verleihung	Self	35
3	1967	Titel, Thesen, Temperamente	Self	60
4	1970	11 Uhr 20	Barkeepeer Henry	42
5	1973	Je später der Abend	Self	0
6	1974	Spécial cinéma	Self	0
7	1974	3 nach 9	Self	65
8	1975	Les Rendez-vous du dimanche	Self	60
9	1976	Kölner Treff	Self	60
10	1979	NDR Talk Show	Self	65
11	1979	Bayerischer Filmpreis	Self	0
12	1982	Champs-Elysées	Self	62
13	1986	American Masters	Self	71
14	1987	Nachtcafé	Self	65
15	1989	ZDF-Mittagsmagazin	Self	60
16	1990	Romy Award	Self	90
17	1990	Zeil um Zehn	Self	0
18	1992	Morgenmagazin	Self	60
19	1992	Billy, How Did You Do It?	Self	0
20	1995	Die Harald Schmidt Show	Self	70
21	1997	Im Dialog	self	0
22	1997	Nachtstudio	Self	0
23	1998	Alpha Forum	Self	0
24	1999	Beckmann	Self	30
25	1999	Volle Kanne	Self	44
26	1999	maybrit illner	Self	80
27	2000	Abendschau	Self	60
28	2000	Abendschau	self	60
29	2002	Im Glashaus - Das philosophische Quartett	himself	0
30	2002	Gero von Boehm begegnet...	Self	0
31	2003	Un film et son époque	Self	100
32	2010	Westpol: Eins zu eins	self	0
33	2010	Museums-Check mit Markus Brock	Self	0
34	2011	Was wurde aus...?	himself	0
35	2011	Günther Jauch	Self	0
36	2012	Square	Self	0
37	2012	Open Opera – Wer wird Carmen?	Self	0
38	2014	Bewegte Republik Deutschland	Self	0
39	2018	Was tut sich - im deutschen Film?	Himself	0
40	2022	Studio 3 – Live aus Babelsberg	Self	0
41	2023	German Genius	Volker Schlöndorff	55