Volker Schlöndorff

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

Die Harald Schmidt Show

Abendschau

Abendschau

Morgenmagazin

NDR Talk Show

Champs-Elysées

Kölner Treff

Spécial cinéma

All Movies (63)

• Igor and After2026
• Pan Olbrychski2025 · as Self
• Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit2024 · as Self
• Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg2024 · as Self
• The Stones and Brian Jones2024 · as Self
• Merkel2022 · as Self
• Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer2022 · as Self
• Alain Resnais, the Audacious2022 · as Self
• Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors2022 · as Self
• Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion2022 · as Self
• A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner2021 · as Self
• Volker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the Drum2020 · as Self - Filmmaker
• Last Year in Dachau2020 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
• Melville, le dernier samouraï2020 · as Self
• Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power2019 · as Self - Filmmaker
• Hollywood's Second World War2019 · as Self
• Fuck the Message2019 · as Self
• Sympathisanten - Unser deutscher Herbst2018 · as Self
• Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder2017 · as Self
• Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life2017 · as Self
• Tangerine Dream: Sound from Another World2016 · as Self
• Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century2015 · as Self - Filmmaker
• From Caligari to Hitler2015 · as Self - Filmmaker
• The Poet and the Filmmaker: Volker Schlöndorff on Baal2015 · as Interviewer
• Fassbinder2015 · as Self
• Henri Langlois vu par...2014 · as Self
• Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections2012 · as Self
• Nuits transparentes2011
• Cave of Forgotten Dreams2010 · as Narrator (French version) (voice) (uncredited)
• Michael Nyman in Progress2010 · as Self
• Code Name: Melville2010 · as Self
• Memories of Last Year in Marienbad2010 · as Himself - Narrator
• Melville Steps Out of the Shadows2010 · as Interviewee
• Unraveling the Enigma: The Making of Marienbad2009 · as Self
• Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial2009 · as himself
• Malle's Fire Within2008 · as Self
• Filmmakers in Action2006 · as Self
• Billy Wilder Speaks2006 · as Self - Filmmaker / Interviewer
• Knef - Die frühen Jahre2005 · as Self
• Gottschalk meets Petersen2005 · as Himself
• Who is Helene Schwarz?2005 · as Self
• Von Sex bis Simmel2005 · as Self
• Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands2004 · as Self (Interviewee)
• Die Verhoevens2003 · as Himself
• Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song2002 · as Self
• Ein Produzent hat Seele oder er hat keine2002 · as Self
• Volker Schlöndorff Remembers The Tin Drum2001 · as Self
• Schrott - Die Atzenposse2000
• The Night of the Filmmakers1995 · as Self
• I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me1992 · as Self
• Billy, How Did You Do It?1992 · as Self
• Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’1986 · as Self - The Director
• Humor ist eine ernste Sache - Der Filmregisseur Kurt Hoffmann1985 · as Self
• Hands Up!1985 · as Self (1981 footage)
• Cinématon1978 · as N°572
• Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema1976 · as Self
• De qui dépend que l’oppression demeure ?1975 · as Self
• Mathias Kneißl1971
• Neuer Deutscher Film Report1967
• Chance at Love1964 · as German soldier (segment "Chance du guerrier, La") (uncredited)
• Le Doulos1962 · as Man in Bar (uncredited)
• Léon Morin, Priest1961 · as German Soldier (uncredited)
• Ulrich Matthes - Leidenschaft und Haltung— · as Self

All TV Shows (43)

• Mein liebster Dokumentarfilm2026 · as Self
• German Genius2023 · as Volker Schlöndorff
• Studio 3 - Live aus Babelsberg2022 · as Self
• Was tut sich - im deutschen Film?2018 · as Himself
• Bewegte Republik Deutschland2014 · as Self
• Open Opera – Wer wird Carmen?2012 · as Self
• Square2012 · as Self
• Günther Jauch2011 · as Self
• Was wurde aus...?2011 · as himself
• Museums-Check mit Markus Brock2010 · as Self
• Westpol2010 · as self
• Un film et son époque2003 · as Self
• Gero von Boehm begegnet...2002 · as Self
• Im Glashaus - Das philosophische Quartett2002 · as himself
• Abendschau2000 · as Self
• Abendschau2000 · as self
• maybrit illner1999 · as Self
• Volle Kanne1999 · as Self
• Beckmann1999 · as Self
• Alpha Forum1998 · as Self
• Nachtstudio1997 · as Self
• Im Dialog1997 · as self
• Die Harald Schmidt Show1995 · as Self
• Billy, How Did You Do It?1992 · as Self
• Morgenmagazin1992 · as Self
• Film Lesson1991 · as Self
• Zeil um Zehn1990 · as Self
• Romy Award1990 · as Self
• ZDF-Mittagsmagazin1989 · as Self
• Nachtcafé1987 · as Self
• American Masters1986 · as Self
• Goldene Kamera1984 · as Self
• Champs-Elysées1982 · as Self
• Bavarian Film Awards1979 · as Self
• NDR Talk Show1979 · as Self
• Kölner Treff1976 · as Self
• Les Rendez-vous du dimanche1975 · as Self
• 3 nach 91974 · as Self
• Spécial cinéma1974 · as Self
• Je später der Abend1973 · as Self
• 11 Uhr 201970 · as Barkeepeer Henry
• Titel, Thesen, Temperamente1967 · as Self
• German Film Award1951 · as Self