Volker Schlöndorff
Directing
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.
TV Shows(42)
Mein liebster Dokumentarfilm
Self
2026
German Genius
Volker Schlöndorff
2023
Studio 3 - Live aus Babelsberg
Self
2022
Was tut sich - im deutschen Film?
Himself
2018
Bewegte Republik Deutschland
Self
2014
Open Opera – Wer wird Carmen?
Self
2012
Square
Self
2012
Günther Jauch
Self
2011
Was wurde aus...?
himself
2011
Museums-Check mit Markus Brock
Self
2010
Westpol
self
2010
Un film et son époque
Self
2003
Gero von Boehm begegnet...
Self
2002
Im Glashaus - Das philosophische Quartett
himself
2002
Abendschau
Self
2000
maybrit illner
Self
1999
Volle Kanne
Self
1999
Beckmann
Self
1999
Alpha Forum
Self
1998
Nachtstudio
Self
1997
Im Dialog
self
1997
Die Harald Schmidt Show
Self
1995
Billy, How Did You Do It?
Self
1992
Morgenmagazin
Self
1992
Film Lesson
Self
1991
Zeil um Zehn
Self
1990
Romy Award
Self
1990
ZDF-Mittagsmagazin
Self
1989
Nachtcafé
Self
1987
American Masters
Self
1986
Goldene Kamera
Self
1984
Champs-Elysées
Self
1982
Bavarian Film Awards
Self
1979
NDR Talk Show
Self
1979
Kölner Treff
Self
1976
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self
1975
3 nach 9
Self
1974
Spécial cinéma
Self
1974
Je später der Abend
Self
1973
11 Uhr 20
Barkeepeer Henry
1970
Titel, Thesen, Temperamente
Self
1967
German Film Award
Self
1951
Movies(61)
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
Merkel
Self
2022
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
Self
2022
Alain Resnais, the Audacious
Self
2022
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
Self
2022
Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion
Self
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
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
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
Self
2012
Nuits transparentes
2011
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Narrator (French version) (voice) (uncredited)
2010
Michael Nyman in Progress
Self
2010
Code Name: Melville
Self
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
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
Self
2002
Ein Produzent hat Seele oder er hat keine
Self
2002
Volker Schlöndorff Remembers The Tin Drum
Self
2001
Schrott - Die Atzenposse
2000
The Night of the Filmmakers
Self
1995
I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
Self
1992
Billy, How Did You Do It?
Self
1992
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
Self - The Director
1986
Humor ist eine ernste Sache - Der Filmregisseur Kurt Hoffmann
Self
1985
Hands Up!
Self (1981 footage)
1985
Cinématon
N°572
1978
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
Self
1976
De qui dépend que l’oppression demeure ?
Self
1975
Mathias Kneißl
1971
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