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.
Volker Schlöndorff Biography / Wiki
| Name | Volker Schlöndorff |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Directing |
| Place of Birth | Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany |
| Date of Birth | 1939-03-31 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 83 |
| Deathday |
Volker Schlöndorff Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Memories of Last Year in Marienbad | Himself – Narrator | 2010-01-01 | A documentary about the film Last Year at Marienbad… |
| Melville Steps Out of the Shadows | Interviewee | 2010-01-01 | A documentary about the making of Jean-Pierre Melville’s 1949 film “Le silence de la mer”… |
| The Poet and the Filmmaker: Volker Schlöndorff on Baal | Interviewer | 2015-05-06 | In this feature-length interview, conducted by Robert Fischer in February 2015, Volker Schlöndorff talks about the making of his film BAAL (1969), ba… |
| Hollywood’s Second World War | Himself | 2019-09-08 | For the USA, World War 2 was an all-out war – to mobilize the masses, the US government launched a huge propaganda campaign and cinema, the medium of … |
| Volker Schlöndorff Remembers The Tin Drum | 2001-11-13 | A documentary-montage of sketches, photos, storyboards, and film excerpts that is accompanied by Volker Schlöndorff’s thoughts about his 1979 film T… | |
| Knef – Die frühen Jahre | Self | 2005-11-25 | A documentary about the life of the actress Hildegard Knef…. |
| Volker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the Drum | Self – Filmmaker | 2020-08-27 | The life and work of the brilliant German filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff, a cross-border artist who, by leaving Germany and making the whole world his … |
| Fuck the Message | Self | 2019-01-24 | … |
| Last Year in Dachau | Self – Narrator (voice) | 2020-07-10 | Near Munich, in Bavaria, Germany, is the Schleißheim Palace, where French filmmaker Alain Resnais shot his film Last Year at Marienbad in 1960. Nearb… |
| Malle’s Fire Within | Self | In these interviews, conducted in 2008, actor Alexandra Stewart and filmmakers Philippe Collin and Volker Schlöndorff discuss the making of The Fire … | |
| Von Sex bis Simmel | Himself | 2005-02-04 | A documentary by Hans Günther Pflaum and Peter H. Schröder…. |
| Billy, How Did You Do It? | Himself | 1992-01-01 | An interview between Volker Schlöndorff and Billy Wilder…. |
| Billy Wilder Speaks | Self – Filmmaker / Interviewer | 2006-06-22 | In 1988, German filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff sat down with legendary director Billy Wilder (1906-2002) at his office in Beverly Hills, California, an… |
| Sympathisanten – Unser deutscher Herbst | Himself | 2018-05-24 | West Germany in the 1970s. Many artists, journalists and intellectuals were branded as sympathizers of Baader-Meinhof’s left-wing terrorism. The paren… |
| Filmstunde | Himself | 1991-12-20 | Werner Herzog interviews guests on the art of filmmaking…. |
| Nur zum Spaß, nur zum Spiel | 1977-04-01 | Documentary film…. | |
| Gottschalk meets Petersen | Himself | 2005-05-14 | … |
| Tangerine Dream: Sound from Another World | Himself | 2016-11-25 | Documentary of German electronic musical group Tangerine Dream…. |
| Unraveling the Enigma: The Making of Marienbad | Self | 2009-06-23 | Interviews with Alain Resnais’ collaborators about the making of Last Year at Marienbad, including sketches and production photos…. |
| Melville, le dernier samouraï | Self | 2020-03-29 | Like nobody else Jean-Pierre Melville influenced modern filmmaking. This documentary follows his creative process step by step, showing him becoming t… |
| A Life for Movies – Lotte Eisner | self | 2020-11-01 | Born in Berlin in 1896, Lotte Eisner became famous for her passionate involvement in the world of both German and French cinema. In 1936, together wit… |
| From Caligari to Hitler | Self – Filmmaker | 2015-05-28 | Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1919, when the Republic of Weimar is born, to 1933, when the Nazis come into… |
| Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’ | self | 1986-06-23 | Playwright Arthur Miller, director Volker Schlöndorff and actor Dustin Hoffman are seen creating the Roxbury Productions and Punch Productions telepl… |
| Hands Up! | German Film Director | 1981-10-09 | The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories…. |
| Neuer Deutscher Film Report | 1967-01-01 | Interview film with the protagonists of the New German Cinema in 1966…. | |
| Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema | 1976-12-02 | BBC documentary about the rise of the New German Cinema and several of its most important figures…. | |
| Nuits transparentes | 2011-04-14 | Strolling through France (Roanne, Nice and Carcassonne) with some excursions abroad (Munich, Montreal, New York)…. | |
| Humor ist eine ernste Sache – Der Filmregisseur Kurt Hoffmann | Self | 1985-11-12 | … |
| The Night of the Filmmakers | Self | 1995-02-12 | A meditation on the first 100 years of German cinema, featuring some of its greatest directors…. |
| Die Verhoevens | Himself | 2003-06-29 | The history of a family, in the film business now for three generations, behind and in front of the camera. The film is not only a foray through the h… |
| Fassbinder | Himself | 2015-04-30 | A film portrait of the influential Bavarian actor, director and screenwriter who publicly confessed his homosexuality…. |
| Peter Eisenman: Building Germany’s Holocaust Memorial | himself | 2009-02-20 | This documentary explores the creation of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin as designed by architect Peter Eisenman. Reaction of the German public to t… |
| Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin – Les films allemands | Self (Interviewee) | 2004-04-28 | … |
| Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century | Himself – Filmmaker | 2015-10-17 | An unparalleled portrait of Arthur Miller (1915-2005), a major writer who left an indelible mark on the world. Miller’s life is intimately connected w… |
| Schrott – Die Atzenposse | 2000-01-13 | … | |
| Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors | Volker Schlöndorff | 2022-09-01 | From the 1950s onwards, Erika and Ulrich Gregor brought countless film historical milestones to Berlin and shaped cinema discourse in post-war Germany… |
| Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder | Himself | 2017-10-28 | A funny walk through the life story of Billy Wilder (1906-2002), a cinematic genius; a portrait of a filmmaker who never was a boring man, a superb mi… |
| Code Name: Melville | Self | 2008-01-01 | Mixing interviews, rare archival footage and film extracts, the film shows how Melville’s works were impacted by what he experienced in his youth duri… |
| Henri Langlois vu par… | Self | 2014-01-01 | Thirteen filmmakers talk about Henri Langlois and their relationship with him…. |
| Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song | Self | 2002-03-21 | The films, affairs and struggles of the iconic star of The Blue Angel as told by Rosemary Clooney, Roger Corman, Deanna Durbin and many more…. |
| Léon Morin, Priest | Un soldat allemand (uncredited) | 1961-09-21 | In World War II, the widow Barny sees the Italian soldiers arriving in occupied Saint Bernard while walking to her job. Barny lives with her daughter … |
| I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me | Self | 1993-01-01 | A documentary about the life and work of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder…. |
| Mathias Kneißl | 1971-05-27 | Inspired by the real life events of Mathias Kneißl, a marginal man, son of poor farmers from Bavaria, in the late XIX Century. Mathias stole from the… | |
| Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power | Self – Filmmaker | 2019-11-07 | The views and thoughts of Canadian writer Margaret Atwood have never been more relevant than today. Readers turn to her work for answers as they confr… |
| Filmmakers in Action | Self | 2006-09-15 | What is the state of cinema and what being a filmmaker means? What are the measures taken to protect authors’ copyright? What is their legal status in… |
| Cinématon | N°572 | 1978-12-20 | Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36… |
Volker Schlöndorff Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Tin Drum | Director | 1979-05-02 | Repulsed by the hypocrisy of adults and the irresponsibility of society, a boy refuses to grow older after his third birthday…. |
| Voyager | Director | 1991-03-21 | Walter Faber has survived a crash with an airplane. His next trip is by ship. On board this ship he meets the enchanting Sabeth and they have a passio… |
| The Legend of Rita | Director | 2000-09-14 | Rita Vogt is a radical West German terrorist who abandons the revolution and settles in East Germany with a new identity provided by the East German s… |
| The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum | Director | 1975-01-10 | After a chance encounter with a wanted man, a woman is harassed by the police and press until she takes violent action…. |
| The Handmaid’s Tale | Director | 1990-02-15 | In a dystopicly polluted rightwing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility…. |
| The Ninth Day | Director | 2004-08-05 | A drama loosely based on Jean Bernard’s Nazi-era prison diary…. |
| Palmetto | Director | 1998-02-20 | A recently released ex-con gets involved in a fake kidnapping scheme that turns very real…. |
| Germany in Autumn | Director | 1978-03-03 | Germany in Autumn does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard movie scenes, to give the audience the mood of German… |
| Death of a Salesman | Director | 1985-08-16 | Salesman Willy Loman is in a crisis. He’s about to lose his job, he can’t pay his bills, and his sons Biff and Happy don’t respect him and can’t seem … |
| Coup de Grâce | Director | 1976-10-21 | A countess loves her brother’s Prussian-officer friend in the 1919 Baltic area…. |
| Strike | Director | 2007-02-23 | A nearly illiterate woman becomes one of the founders of Poland’s Solidarity union…. |
| Young Törless | Director | 1966-05-20 | At an Austrian boys’ boarding school in the early 1900s, shy, intelligent Törless observes the sadistic behavior of his fellow students, doing nothin… |
| Circle of Deceit | Director | 1981-10-15 | Georg Laschen leaves his family in West Germany to go work as a war correspondent in Beirut during the fights between Christians and Palestinians…. |
| The Ogre | Director | 1996-09-12 | Frenchman Abel Tiffauges is a naive man who lives a simple life working as a mechanic. Falsely accused of being a child abuser, he is recruited as a s… |
| Ulzhan | Director | 2007-06-28 | Somewhere in the endless steppes of Central Asia lies a treasure. One man holds the key to it, a fragment of an ancient map. But in his restless quest… |
| A Gathering of Old Men | Director | 1987-05-10 | A regular day in a Louisiana sugarcane plantation changes course when a local white farmer is shot in self defense. A group of old, black men takes a … |
| Ten Minutes Older: The Cello | Director | 2002-09-03 | Collection of short films the summaries of which include; a foreign man moving to Italy, getting married and having a child; a four split scene short … |
| The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach | Director | 1971-04-14 | An intriguing Hans Christian Anderson-style fairy tale aesthetic and voice over narration. Sudden Wealth is a despairing chronicle of a group of starv… |
| Calm at Sea | Director | 2012-03-21 | October 1941. Eighteen months into France’s occupation by German troops, young Communist members of the Resistance shoot dead an officer of the Germ… |
| Swann in Love | Director | 1984-02-23 | The beginning of the 20th century. Charles Swann, a young and wealthy dandy, spends most of his time hanging out with the old nobility, notably the Du… |
| Michael Kohlhaas – The Rebel | Director | 1969-04-11 | It’s medieval times. Kohlhaas merchants with horses. When going to the local fair to sell his horses, is forced by a noble to leave him part of the me… |
| A Degree of Murder | Director | 1967-04-19 | When a young woman accidentally kills her ex-lover during a fight, she decides to conceal the body. Unfortunately, however, our anti-hero is less than… |
| Baal | Director | 1970-01-07 | Volker Schlöndorff transposes Bertolt Brecht’s late-expressionist work to latter-day 1969. Poet and anarchist Baal lives in an attic and reads his … |
| Diplomacy | Director | 2014-03-05 | The night of August 24, 1944. The fate of Paris is in the hands of General von Choltitz, governor of Grand Paris, who is preparing, on Hitler’s orde… |
| The Morals of Ruth Halbfass | Director | 1972-04-12 | … |
| A Free Woman | Director | 1972-11-01 | A divorced woman in her thirties fights a losing battle in Munich to attain belated self-fulfillment. The die is cast in a briskly impersonal society … |
| Billy, How Did You Do It? | Director | 1992-01-01 | An interview between Volker Schlöndorff and Billy Wilder…. |
| Enigma – Eine uneingestandene Liebe | Director | 2005-09-09 | … |
| Billy Wilder Speaks | Director | 2006-06-22 | In 1988, German filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff sat down with legendary director Billy Wilder (1906-2002) at his office in Beverly Hills, California, an… |
| The Candidate | Director | 1980-04-18 | Made with an eye to the autumn of 1980 when the German parliamentary elections took place, The Candidate examines Germany’s history past and present… |
| Krieg und Frieden | Director | 1982-09-30 | The third episodical film, after Deutschland im Herbst and Der Kandidat, in which notable German film makers reflect on the state of their country…. |
| Der Paukenspieler | Director | 1967-12-01 | Five film directors were given the task of making short films based on titles of drawings by Paul Klee…. |
| Return to Montauk | Director | 2017-05-11 | During a book tour in the United States, Max meets and falls in love with a young woman. Many years later, Max returns to the United States, hoping to… |
| Le Doulos | Assistant Director | 1962-12-13 | Enigmatic gangster Silien may or may not be responsible for informing on Faugel, who was just released from prison and is already involved in what sh… |
| Viva Maria! | Assistant Director | 1965-11-22 | Gorgeous IRA operative Marie flees the British authorities and finds herself somewhere in the American continent, where she meets a stunning woman als… |
| The Fire Within | Assistant Director | 1963-10-15 | Although his alcoholism has been treated, Alain still feels he is deeply unwell and does not feel he can leave the detoxification clinic once and for … |
| A Very Private Affair | Assistant Director | 1962-01-31 | When Jill becomes a movie star, she soon discovers that her private life is destroyed by persistent fans that won’t leave her alone. Her mother’s ex-l… |
| Léon Morin, Priest | Assistant Director | 1961-09-21 | In World War II, the widow Barny sees the Italian soldiers arriving in occupied Saint Bernard while walking to her job. Barny lives with her daughter … |
| The Nameless Day | Director | 2017-10-09 | The retired Chief superintendent Jakob Franck who often had to inform relatives as a “death messenger”, now hopes to lead a life beyond the dead…. |
| Wen kümmert’s? | Director | 1960-01-02 | In the Frankfurt area, “La Main Rouge” hunted for Algerian soldiers who had deserted from the French army and fled across the German border…. |
| Ãœbernachtung in Tirol | Director | 1974-10-08 | Television film…. |
| Georginas Gründe | Director | 1975-04-27 | Adaptation of a story by Henry James…. |
| Nur zum Spaß, nur zum Spiel | Director | 1977-04-01 | Documentary film…. |
| The Michael Nyman Songbook | Director | 1992-05-30 | Ute Lemper sings a collection of art songs by Michael Nyman based on texts by Paul Celan, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, William Shakespeare and Arthur Rimb… |
| Last Year at Marienbad | Second Assistant Director | 1961-05-25 | In a strange and isolated chateau, a man becomes acquainted with a woman and insists that they have met before…. |
| Henri Langlois vu par… | Director | 2014-01-01 | Thirteen filmmakers talk about Henri Langlois and their relationship with him…. |
| Méditerranée | Assistant Director | 1963-04-23 | Pollet and Schlöndorff imagine the Mediterranean as a supernal arena…. |
| The Forest Maker | Director | 2022-04-07 | Together with African small farmholders Tony Rinaudo, an Australian agronomist, has been fighting against the spread of the desert for 30 years and ch… |
| Director | Director Billy Wilder is interviewed by German critic Hellmut Karasek and director Volker Schlöndorff about his movies…. | ||
| Director | … | ||
Volker Schlöndorff Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Memories of Last Year in Marienbad | Producer | 2010-01-01 | A documentary about the film Last Year at Marienbad… |
| A Free Woman | Producer | 1972-11-01 | A divorced woman in her thirties fights a losing battle in Munich to attain belated self-fulfillment. The die is cast in a briskly impersonal society … |
| Baal | Producer | 1970-01-07 | Volker Schlöndorff transposes Bertolt Brecht’s late-expressionist work to latter-day 1969. Poet and anarchist Baal lives in an attic and reads his … |
| The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach | Producer | 1971-04-14 | An intriguing Hans Christian Anderson-style fairy tale aesthetic and voice over narration. Sudden Wealth is a despairing chronicle of a group of starv… |
| Ãœbernachtung in Tirol | Producer | 1974-10-08 | Television film…. |
| Beto Nervio contra el poder de las tinieblas | Associate Producer | 1978-01-01 | … |
| Everyman’s Feast | Producer | 2002-01-25 | Austrian television director Fritz Lehner makes his feature debut with the big-budget drama Jedermann’s Fest, based on the 1911 play by Hugo von Hofma… |
| The Forest Maker | Producer | 2022-04-07 | Together with African small farmholders Tony Rinaudo, an Australian agronomist, has been fighting against the spread of the desert for 30 years and ch… |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Tin Drum | Screenplay | 1979-05-02 | Repulsed by the hypocrisy of adults and the irresponsibility of society, a boy refuses to grow older after his third birthday…. |
| The Legend of Rita | Screenplay | 2000-09-14 | Rita Vogt is a radical West German terrorist who abandons the revolution and settles in East Germany with a new identity provided by the East German s… |
| The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum | Screenplay | 1975-01-10 | After a chance encounter with a wanted man, a woman is harassed by the police and press until she takes violent action…. |
| Germany in Autumn | Screenplay | 1978-03-03 | Germany in Autumn does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard movie scenes, to give the audience the mood of German… |
| Young Törless | Writer | 1966-05-20 | At an Austrian boys’ boarding school in the early 1900s, shy, intelligent Törless observes the sadistic behavior of his fellow students, doing nothin… |
| Circle of Deceit | Writer | 1981-10-15 | Georg Laschen leaves his family in West Germany to go work as a war correspondent in Beirut during the fights between Christians and Palestinians…. |
| The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach | Writer | 1971-04-14 | An intriguing Hans Christian Anderson-style fairy tale aesthetic and voice over narration. Sudden Wealth is a despairing chronicle of a group of starv… |
| Diplomacy | Screenplay | 2014-03-05 | The night of August 24, 1944. The fate of Paris is in the hands of General von Choltitz, governor of Grand Paris, who is preparing, on Hitler’s orde… |
| Calm at Sea | Writer | 2012-03-21 | October 1941. Eighteen months into France’s occupation by German troops, young Communist members of the Resistance shoot dead an officer of the Germ… |
| A Free Woman | Writer | 1972-11-01 | A divorced woman in her thirties fights a losing battle in Munich to attain belated self-fulfillment. The die is cast in a briskly impersonal society … |
| The Morals of Ruth Halbfass | Screenplay | 1972-04-12 | … |
| Krieg und Frieden | Writer | 1982-09-30 | The third episodical film, after Deutschland im Herbst and Der Kandidat, in which notable German film makers reflect on the state of their country…. |
| The Candidate | Writer | 1980-04-18 | Made with an eye to the autumn of 1980 when the German parliamentary elections took place, The Candidate examines Germany’s history past and present… |
| The Ogre | Screenplay | 1996-09-12 | Frenchman Abel Tiffauges is a naive man who lives a simple life working as a mechanic. Falsely accused of being a child abuser, he is recruited as a s… |
| Der Paukenspieler | Writer | 1967-12-01 | Five film directors were given the task of making short films based on titles of drawings by Paul Klee…. |
| The Nameless Day | Writer | 2017-10-09 | The retired Chief superintendent Jakob Franck who often had to inform relatives as a “death messenger”, now hopes to lead a life beyond the dead…. |
| Return to Montauk | Screenplay | 2017-05-11 | During a book tour in the United States, Max meets and falls in love with a young woman. Many years later, Max returns to the United States, hoping to… |
| Ãœbernachtung in Tirol | Writer | 1974-10-08 | Television film…. |
| A Degree of Murder | Writer | 1967-04-19 | When a young woman accidentally kills her ex-lover during a fight, she decides to conceal the body. Unfortunately, however, our anti-hero is less than… |
| Georginas Gründe | Writer | 1975-04-27 | Adaptation of a story by Henry James…. |
| Wen kümmert’s? | Writer | 1960-01-02 | In the Frankfurt area, “La Main Rouge” hunted for Algerian soldiers who had deserted from the French army and fled across the German border…. |
| Michael Kohlhaas – The Rebel | Writer | 1969-04-11 | It’s medieval times. Kohlhaas merchants with horses. When going to the local fair to sell his horses, is forced by a noble to leave him part of the me… |
| Nur zum Spaß, nur zum Spiel | Writer | 1977-04-01 | Documentary film…. |
| Baal | Screenplay | 1970-01-07 | Volker Schlöndorff transposes Bertolt Brecht’s late-expressionist work to latter-day 1969. Poet and anarchist Baal lives in an attic and reads his … |
| Voyager | Screenplay | 1991-03-21 | Walter Faber has survived a crash with an airplane. His next trip is by ship. On board this ship he meets the enchanting Sabeth and they have a passio… |
| The Forest Maker | Writer | 2022-04-07 | Together with African small farmholders Tony Rinaudo, an Australian agronomist, has been fighting against the spread of the desert for 30 years and ch… |
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Other Info
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Memories of Last Year in Marienbad | Editor | 2010-01-01 | A documentary about the film Last Year at Marienbad… |
| Wen kümmert’s? | Editor | 1960-01-02 | In the Frankfurt area, “La Main Rouge” hunted for Algerian soldiers who had deserted from the French army and fled across the German border…. |
| Billy Wilder Speaks | Editor | 2006-06-22 | In 1988, German filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff sat down with legendary director Billy Wilder (1906-2002) at his office in Beverly Hills, California, an… |
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