Volker Schlöndorff
Known for: 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.
Filmography
Series
Ciné regards
Self
1978
Series
Abendschau
Self
2000
Series
Abendschau
self
2000
Series
maybrit illner
Self
1999
Series
Die Harald Schmidt Show
Self
1995
Alpha Forum
Self
1998
Series
Morgenmagazin
Self
1992
Volle Kanne
Self
1999
Series
Champs-Elysées
Self
1982
Series
American Masters
Self
1986
Series
NDR Talk Show
Self
1979
Series
Kölner Treff
Self
1976
Series
Spécial cinéma
Self
1974
3 nach 9
Self
1974
Series
Nachtcafé
Self
1987
Westpol
self
2010
Günther Jauch
Self
2011
German Film Award
Self
1951
Series
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self
1975
ZDF-Mittagsmagazin
Self
1989
Series
Beckmann
Self
1999
Romy Award
Self
1990
Titel, Thesen, Temperamente
Self
1967
Goldene Kamera
Self
1984
Im Dialog
self
1997
Nachtstudio
Self
1997
Series
Square
Self
2012
Bavarian Film Awards
Self
1979
Gero von Boehm begegnet...
Self
2002
Series
German Genius
Volker Schlöndorff
2023
Je später der Abend
Self
1973
Studio 3 - Live aus Babelsberg
Self
2022
Film
Filmmakers in Action
Self
2006
Mein liebster Dokumentarfilm
Self
2026
Series
Un film et son époque
Self
2003
Film
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
Self
2022
Film
Léon Morin, Priest
German Soldier (uncredited)
1961
Zeil um Zehn
Self
1990
Film
Knef - Die frühen Jahre
Self
2005
Was wurde aus...?
himself
2011
Film
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Narrator (French version) (voice) (uncredited)
2010
Museums-Check mit Markus Brock
Self
2010
Film
Le Doulos
Man in Bar (uncredited)
1962
Series
11 Uhr 20
Barkeepeer Henry
1970
Film
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
Self
2002
Film
Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion
Self
2022
Film
Hands Up!
Self (1981 footage)
1985
Im Glashaus - Das philosophische Quartett
himself
2002
Film
The Stones and Brian Jones
Self
2024
Film
Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power
Self - Filmmaker
2019
Film
Henri Langlois vu par...
Self
2014
Series
Film Lesson
Self
1991
Was tut sich - im deutschen Film?
Himself
2018
Film
Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg
Self
2024
Film
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
Self
2017
Series
Billy, How Did You Do It?
Self
1992
Igor and After
2026
Film
Cinématon
N°572
1978
Film
Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century
Self - Filmmaker
2015
Bewegte Republik Deutschland
Self
2014
Film
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
Self
2021
Film
Hollywood's Second World War
Self
2019
Film
Come with Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
Self
2022
Film
Chance at Love
German soldier (segment "Chance du guerrier, La") (uncredited)
1964
Film
Volker Schlöndorff Remembers The Tin Drum
Self
2001
Film
Fassbinder
Self
2015
Film
Pan Olbrychski
Self
2025
Film
Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder
Self
2017
Film
From Caligari to Hitler
Self - Filmmaker
2015
Film
Billy Wilder Speaks
Self - Filmmaker / Interviewer
2006
Film
Sympathisanten - Unser deutscher Herbst
Self
2018
Film
Alain Resnais, the Audacious
Self
2022
Film
Neuer Deutscher Film Report
1967
Von Sex bis Simmel
Self
2005
Film
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
Self - The Director
1986
Film
Code Name: Melville
Self
2010
Film
Strike
2007
Film
Merkel
Self
2022
Film
I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
Self
1992
Film
Melville, le dernier samouraï
Self
2020
Film
Mathias Kneißl
1971
Film
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
Self
1976
Film
Volker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the Drum
Self - Filmmaker
2020
Film
Malle's Fire Within
Self
2008
Film
Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial
himself
2009
Who is Helene Schwarz?
Self
2005
Ulrich Matthes - Leidenschaft und Haltung
Self
Film
De qui dépend que l’oppression demeure ?
Self
1975
Film
The Night of the Filmmakers
Self
1995
Film
Michael Nyman in Progress
Self
2010
Schrott - Die Atzenposse
2000
Film
Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit
Self
2024
Film
Tangerine Dream: Sound from Another World
Self
2016
Film
Humor ist eine ernste Sache - Der Filmregisseur Kurt Hoffmann
Self
1985
Film
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
Self
2012
Film
Nuits transparentes
2011
Film
Billy, How Did You Do It?
Self
1992
Memories of Last Year in Marienbad
Himself - Narrator
2010
Die Verhoevens
Himself
2003
Film
Last Year in Dachau
Self - Narrator (voice)
2020
Gottschalk meets Petersen
Himself
2005
Open Opera – Wer wird Carmen?
Self
2012
Film
Unraveling the Enigma: The Making of Marienbad
Self
2009
Film
Melville Steps Out of the Shadows
Interviewee
2010
Ein Produzent hat Seele oder er hat keine
Self
2002
The Poet and the Filmmaker: Volker Schlöndorff on Baal
Interviewer
2015
Film
Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands
Self (Interviewee)
2004
Fuck the Message
Self
2019