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.
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Acting History
2025
Pan Olbrychski as Self
2024Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit as Self
2024Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg as Self
2024The Stones and Brian Jones as Self
2023German Genius as Volker Schlöndorff
2022Merkel as Self
2022Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer as Self
2022Alain Resnais, the Audacious as Self
2022Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors as Self
2022Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion as Self
2022Studio 3 – Live aus Babelsberg as Self
2021A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner as Self
2020Volker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the Drum as Self - Filmmaker
2020Last Year in Dachau as Self - Narrator (voice)
2020Melville, le dernier samouraï as Self
2019Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power as Self - Filmmaker
2019Hollywood's Second World War as Self
2019Fuck the Message as Self
2018Was tut sich - im deutschen Film? as Himself
2018Sympathisanten - Unser deutscher Herbst as Self
2017Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder as Self
2017Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life as Self
2016Tangerine Dream: Sound from Another World as Self
2015Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century as Self - Filmmaker
2015From Caligari to Hitler as Self - Filmmaker
2015The Poet and the Filmmaker: Volker Schlöndorff on Baal as Interviewer
2015Fassbinder as Self
2014Henri Langlois vu par... as Self
2014Bewegte Republik Deutschland as Self
2012Open Opera – Wer wird Carmen? as Self
2012Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections as Self
2012Square as Self
2011Günther Jauch as Self
2011Nuits transparentes
2011Was wurde aus...? as himself
2010Cave of Forgotten Dreams as Narrator (French version) (voice) (uncredited)
2010Michael Nyman in Progress as Self
2010Museums-Check mit Markus Brock as Self
2010Code Name: Melville as Self
2010Westpol: Eins zu eins as self
2010Melville Steps Out of the Shadows as Interviewee
2010Memories of Last Year in Marienbad as Himself - Narrator
2009Unraveling the Enigma: The Making of Marienbad as Self
2009Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial as himself
2008Malle's Fire Within as Self
2006Filmmakers in Action as Self
2006Billy Wilder Speaks as Self - Filmmaker / Interviewer
2005Knef - Die frühen Jahre as Self
2005Gottschalk meets Petersen as Himself
2005Who is Helene Schwarz? as Self
2005Von Sex bis Simmel as Self
2004Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands as Self (Interviewee)
2003Die Verhoevens as Himself
2003Un film et son époque as Self
2002Gero von Boehm begegnet... as Self
2002Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song as Self
2002Ein Produzent hat Seele oder er hat keine as Self
2002Im Glashaus - Das philosophische Quartett as himself
2001Volker Schlöndorff Remembers The Tin Drum as Self
2000Abendschau as Self
2000Abendschau as self
2000Schrott - Die Atzenposse
1999maybrit illner as Self
1999Volle Kanne as Self
1999Beckmann as Self
1998Alpha Forum as Self
1997Nachtstudio as Self
1997Im Dialog as self
1995Die Harald Schmidt Show as Self
1995The Night of the Filmmakers as Self
1992Billy, How Did You Do It? as Self
1992Morgenmagazin as Self
1992I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me as Self
1992Billy, How Did You Do It? as Self
1991Film Hour as Self
1990Zeil um Zehn as Self
1990Romy Award as Self
1989ZDF-Mittagsmagazin as Self
1987Nachtcafé as Self
1986American Masters as Self
1986Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’ as Self - The Director
1985Humor ist eine ernste Sache - Der Filmregisseur Kurt Hoffmann as Self
1985Hands Up! as Self (1981 footage)
1984Goldene Kamera as Self
1982Champs-Elysées as Self
1979Bavarian Film Awards as Self
1979NDR Talk Show as Self
1978Cinématon as N°572
1976Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema as Self
1976Kölner Treff as Self
1975Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
1975De qui dépend que l’oppression demeure ? as Self
19743 nach 9 as Self
1974Spécial cinéma as Self
1973Je später der Abend as Self
1971Mathias Kneißl
197011 Uhr 20 as Barkeepeer Henry
1967Titel, Thesen, Temperamente as Self
1967Neuer Deutscher Film Report
1964Chance at Love as German soldier (segment "Chance du guerrier, La") (uncredited)
1962Le Doulos as Man in Bar (uncredited)
1961Léon Morin, Priest as German Soldier (uncredited)
1951German Film Award as Self