
Volker Schlöndorff
Known for Directing · 104 credits
- Born
- 1939-03-31 (age 87)
- Place of birth
- Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany
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.
Known For
TV Shows (42)
Volle Kanne
1999
as Self

Morgenmagazin
1992
as Self

Die Harald Schmidt Show
1995
as Self

Abendschau
2000
as Self / self

NDR Talk Show
1979
as Self

Kölner Treff
1976
as Self

Champs-Elysées
1982
as Self
Alpha Forum
1998
as Self

American Masters
1986
as Self

maybrit illner
1999
as Self
3 nach 9
1974
as Self

Nachtcafé
1987
as Self

Beckmann
1999
as Self

Spécial cinéma
1974
as Self

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
as Self
ZDF-Mittagsmagazin
1989
as Self
Goldene Kamera
1984
as Self
German Film Award
1951
as Self
Nachtstudio
1997
as Self
Westpol
2010
as self
Romy Award
1990
as Self
Im Dialog
1997
as self
Bavarian Film Awards
1979
as Self
Titel, Thesen, Temperamente
1967
as Self

Square
2012
as Self
Günther Jauch
2011
as Self
Gero von Boehm begegnet...
2002
as Self
Studio 3 - Live aus Babelsberg
2022
as Self

German Genius
2023
as Volker Schlöndorff

Un film et son époque
2003
as Self
Je später der Abend
1973
as Self
Zeil um Zehn
1990
as Self
Museums-Check mit Markus Brock
2010
as Self

11 Uhr 20
1970
as Barkeepeer Henry
Was wurde aus...?
2011
as himself
Im Glashaus - Das philosophische Quartett
2002
as himself

Film Lesson
1991
as Self

Billy, How Did You Do It?
1992
as Self
Bewegte Republik Deutschland
2014
as Self
Was tut sich - im deutschen Film?
2018
as Himself
Mein liebster Dokumentarfilm
2026
as Self
Open Opera – Wer wird Carmen?
2012
as Self
Movies (62)

Cinématon
1978
as N°572

Le Doulos
1962
as Man in Bar (uncredited)

Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
2022
as Self

Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
2017
as Self

Cave of Forgotten Dreams
2010
as Narrator (French version) (voice) (uncredited)

Léon Morin, Priest
1961
as German Soldier (uncredited)

Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg
2024
as Self

Chance at Love
1964
as German soldier (segment "Chance du guerrier, La") (uncredited)

Filmmakers in Action
2006
as Self

Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power
2019
as Self - Filmmaker

Hands Up!
1985
as Self (1981 footage)

The Stones and Brian Jones
2024
as Self

Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion
2022
as Self

Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
2022
as Self

Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
2002
as Self

Henri Langlois vu par...
2014
as Self

I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
1992
as Self

A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
2021
as Self

Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
1976
as Self

Merkel
2022
as Self

Code Name: Melville
2010
as Self

Mathias Kneißl
1971

Billy Wilder Speaks
2006
as Self - Filmmaker / Interviewer
Die Verhoevens
2003
as Himself

Melville, le dernier samouraï
2020
as Self
Ulrich Matthes - Leidenschaft und Haltung
as Self

Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
1986
as Self - The Director

Fassbinder
2015
as Self

From Caligari to Hitler
2015
as Self - Filmmaker
Gottschalk meets Petersen
2005
as Himself

Pan Olbrychski
2025
as Self

Knef - Die frühen Jahre
2005
as Self

Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial
2009
as himself

Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century
2015
as Self - Filmmaker

Neuer Deutscher Film Report
1967
Who is Helene Schwarz?
2005
as Self

Hollywood's Second World War
2019
as Self
Schrott - Die Atzenposse
2000

Humor ist eine ernste Sache - Der Filmregisseur Kurt Hoffmann
1985
as Self
Von Sex bis Simmel
2005
as Self

Malle's Fire Within
2008
as Self

Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit
2024
as Self

Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
2012
as Self

Alain Resnais, the Audacious
2022
as Self

De qui dépend que l’oppression demeure ?
1975
as Self

Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands
2004
as Self (Interviewee)

Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder
2017
as Self

The Night of the Filmmakers
1995
as Self

Melville Steps Out of the Shadows
2010
as Interviewee

Last Year in Dachau
2020
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Memories of Last Year in Marienbad
2010
as Himself - Narrator

Sympathisanten - Unser deutscher Herbst
2018
as Self
Ein Produzent hat Seele oder er hat keine
2002
as Self

Volker Schlöndorff Remembers The Tin Drum
2001
as Self

Tangerine Dream: Sound from Another World
2016
as Self

Nuits transparentes
2011

Billy, How Did You Do It?
1992
as Self

Volker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the Drum
2020
as Self - Filmmaker
Fuck the Message
2019
as Self

Michael Nyman in Progress
2010
as Self
The Poet and the Filmmaker: Volker Schlöndorff on Baal
2015
as Interviewer

Unraveling the Enigma: The Making of Marienbad
2009
as Self
About 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.… With 104 credits spanning from 1951 to 2026, Volker Schlöndorff has appeared in 62 films and 42 TV shows.
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Most Popular Volker Schlöndorff Movies
- Cinématon (1978) — as N°572
- Le Doulos (1962) — as Man in Bar (uncredited)
- Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer (2022) — as Self
- Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life (2017) — as Self
- Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) — as Narrator (French version) (voice) (uncredited)
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