Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Birthdate
1939-03-31 (Age: 87)
Place of Birth
Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany
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.
Filmography (61)
Pan Olbrychski
2025
Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit
2024
Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg
2024
The Stones and Brian Jones
2024
Merkel
2022
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
2022
Alain Resnais, the Audacious
2022
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
2022
Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion
2022
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
2021
Volker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the Drum
2020
Last Year in Dachau
2020
Melville, le dernier samouraï
2020
Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power
2019
