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.
46 directing credits · 103 acting credits
Directing · 46
The Tin Drum
1979
The Handmaid's Tale
1990
Palmetto
1998
Swann in Love
1984
Nouvelles d'Henry James
1976
Death of a Salesman
1985
Voyager
1991
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
1975
The Ogre
1996
Baal
1970
Diplomacy
2014
Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
2002
Visitation
2026
Billy, How Did You Do It?
1992
Henri Langlois vu par...
2014
Circle of Deceit
1981
Germany in Autumn
1978
Return to Montauk
2017
The Ninth Day
2004
Calm at Sea
2012
Michael Kohlhaas - The Rebel
1969
The Legend of Rita
2000
A Gathering of Old Men
1987
The Morals of Ruth Halbfass
1972
Young Törless
1966
Degree of Murder
1967
The Candidate
1980
Billy Wilder Speaks
2006
Coup de Grâce
1976
Ulzhan
2007
Strike
2007
The Nameless Day
2017
Georginas Gründe
1975
War and Peace
1982
Der Paukenspieler
1967
Portrait of Valeska Gert
1977
Enigma – Eine uneingestandene Liebe
2005
A Free Woman
1972
The Forest Maker
2022
Stayover in Tirol
1974
Billy, How Did You Do It?
1992
Ein Produzent hat Seele oder er hat keine
2002
The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach
1971
The Enlightenment
2002
The Michael Nyman Songbook
1992
Who Cares...
1960
Acting · 103
Volle Kanne
1999
Morgenmagazin
1992
Abendschau
2000
Die Harald Schmidt Show
1995
NDR Talk Show
1979
Champs-Elysées
1982
Kölner Treff
1976
American Masters
1986
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
Beckmann
1999
Nachtcafé
1987
Spécial cinéma
1974
3 nach 9
1974
Alpha Forum
1998
ZDF-Mittagsmagazin
1989
German Film Award
1951
maybrit illner
1999
Goldene Kamera
1984
Romy Award
1990
Bavarian Film Awards
1979
Im Dialog
1997
Titel, Thesen, Temperamente
1967
Nachtstudio
1997
Westpol
2010
Günther Jauch
2011
Square
2012
Gero von Boehm begegnet...
2002
German Genius
2023
Studio 3 - Live aus Babelsberg
2022
Un film et son époque
2003
Zeil um Zehn
1990
Je später der Abend
1973
Museums-Check mit Markus Brock
2010
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
2017
11 Uhr 20
1970
Was wurde aus...?
2011
Le Doulos
1962
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
2010
Im Glashaus - Das philosophische Quartett
2002
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
2022
Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power
2019
Code Name: Melville
2010
Filmmakers in Action
2006
Léon Morin, Priest
1961
Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion
2022
Film Lesson
1991
Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg
2024
Cinématon
1978
Was tut sich - im deutschen Film?
2018
Bewegte Republik Deutschland
2014
Billy, How Did You Do It?
1992
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
1986
Henri Langlois vu par...
2014
Chance at Love
1964
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
2002
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
2021
Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder
2017
The Stones and Brian Jones
2024
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
2022
Merkel
2022
Hands Up!
1985
Who is Helene Schwarz?
2005
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
2012
I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
1992
Melville, le dernier samouraï
2020
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
1976
Billy Wilder Speaks
2006
Hollywood's Second World War
2019
Alain Resnais, the Audacious
2022
From Caligari to Hitler
2015
Pan Olbrychski
2025
Mein liebster Dokumentarfilm
2026
Von Sex bis Simmel
2005
Fassbinder
2015
Mathias Kneißl
1971
Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century
2015
Die Verhoevens
2003
Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial
2009
Open Opera – Wer wird Carmen?
2012
Neuer Deutscher Film Report
1967
Humor ist eine ernste Sache - Der Filmregisseur Kurt Hoffmann
1985
Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands
2004
Sympathisanten - Unser deutscher Herbst
2018
De qui dépend que l’oppression demeure ?
1975
The Night of the Filmmakers
1995
Last Year in Dachau
2020
Melville Steps Out of the Shadows
2010
Tangerine Dream: Sound from Another World
2016
Knef - Die frühen Jahre
2005
Volker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the Drum
2020
Billy, How Did You Do It?
1992
Ein Produzent hat Seele oder er hat keine
2002
Schrott - Die Atzenposse
2000
Nuits transparentes
2011
Michael Nyman in Progress
2010
Volker Schlöndorff Remembers The Tin Drum
2001
Gottschalk meets Petersen
2005
Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit
2024
The Poet and the Filmmaker: Volker Schlöndorff on Baal
2015
Unraveling the Enigma: The Making of Marienbad
2009
Malle's Fire Within
2008
Memories of Last Year in Marienbad
2010
Fuck the Message
2019