Volker Schlöndorff

87, from Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany

Artwork for Cave of Forgotten DreamsImage of 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.

Timeline

2026Aged 87

  • Poster for Igor and After

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Visitation

    Producer

2025Aged 86

  • Poster for Pan Olbrychski

    Self

2024Aged 85

  • Poster for Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg

    Self

  • Poster for Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit

    Self

2023Aged 84

  • Poster for The Stones and Brian Jones

    Self

2022Aged 83

  • Poster for Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion

    Self

  • Poster for Come with Me to the Cinema – The Gregors

    Self

  • Poster for Alain Resnais, the Audacious

    Self

  • Poster for Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer

    Self

  • Poster for Merkel

    Self

  • Poster for The Forest Maker

    Writer

2021Aged 82

  • Poster for A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner

    Self

2020Aged 81

  • Poster for Melville, le dernier samouraï

    Self

  • Poster for Last Year in Dachau

    Self - Narrator (voice)

  • Poster for Volker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the Drum

    Self - Filmmaker

2019Aged 80

2018Aged 79

  • Poster for Sympathisanten - Unser deutscher Herbst

    Self

2017Aged 78

  • Poster for Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life

    Self

  • Poster for Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder

    Self

  • Poster for Return to Montauk

    Producer

  • Poster for The Nameless Day

    Writer

2016Aged 77

  • Poster for Tangerine Dream: Sound from Another World

    Self

2015Aged 76

2014Aged 75

  • Poster for Henri Langlois vu par...

    Self

  • Poster for Diplomacy

    Screenplay

2012Aged 73

  • Poster for Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections

    Self

  • Poster for Calm at Sea

    Writer

2011Aged 72

  • Poster for Nuits transparentes

    (Unknown)

2010Aged 71

2009Aged 70

  • Poster for Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial

    himself

  • Poster for Unraveling the Enigma: The Making of Marienbad

    Self

2008Aged 69

  • Poster for Malle's Fire Within

    Self

2007Aged 68

  • Poster for Strike

    Director

  • Poster for Ulzhan

    Director

2006Aged 67

  • Poster for Billy Wilder Speaks

    Self - Filmmaker / Interviewer

  • Poster for Filmmakers in Action

    Self

2005Aged 66

2004Aged 65

  • Poster for Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands

    Self (Interviewee)

  • Poster for The Ninth Day

    Director

2003Aged 64

2002Aged 63

2001Aged 62

  • Poster for Volker Schlöndorff Remembers The Tin Drum

    Self

2000Aged 61

1998Aged 59

  • Poster for Palmetto

    Director

1996Aged 57

  • Poster for The Ogre

    Screenplay

  • Poster for The Ice Princess

    Executive Producer

1995Aged 56

  • Poster for The Night of the Filmmakers

    Self

1992Aged 53

1991Aged 52

  • Poster for Voyager

    Screenplay

1990Aged 51

  • Poster for The Handmaid's Tale

    Director

1987Aged 48

  • Poster for A Gathering of Old Men

    Director

1986Aged 47

  • Poster for Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’

    Self - The Director

1985Aged 46

  • Poster for Hands Up!

    Self (1981 footage)

  • Poster for Humor ist eine ernste Sache - Der Filmregisseur Kurt Hoffmann

    Self

  • Poster for Death of a Salesman

    Director

1984Aged 45

  • Poster for Swann in Love

    Director

1982Aged 43

  • Poster for War and Peace

    Writer

1981Aged 42

  • Poster for Circle of Deceit

    Writer

1980Aged 41

  • Poster for The Candidate

    Writer

1979Aged 40

  • Poster for The Tin Drum

    Screenplay

1978Aged 39

  • Poster for Cinématon

    N°572

  • Poster for Beto Nervio contra el poder de las tinieblas

    Associate Producer

  • Poster for Germany in Autumn

    Screenplay

1977Aged 38

  • Poster for Portrait of Valeska Gert

    Writer

1976Aged 37

  • Poster for Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema

    Self

  • Poster for Coup de Grâce

    Director

1975Aged 36

1974Aged 35

1972Aged 33

  • Poster for The Morals of Ruth Halbfass

    Screenplay

  • Poster for A Free Woman

    Producer

1971Aged 32

  • Poster for Mathias Kneißl

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Rio das Mortes

    Idea

  • Poster for The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach

    Producer

1970Aged 31

  • Poster for Baal

    Screenplay

1969Aged 30

  • Poster for Michael Kohlhaas - The Rebel

    Writer

1967Aged 28

1966Aged 27

  • Poster for Young Törless

    Director

1965Aged 26

  • Poster for Viva Maria!

    Assistant Director

1964Aged 25

  • Poster for Chance at Love

    German soldier (segment "Chance du guerrier, La") (uncredited)

1963Aged 24

  • Poster for Méditerranée

    Co-Director

  • Poster for The Fire Within

    Assistant Director

1962Aged 23

  • Poster for Le Doulos

    Man in Bar (uncredited)

  • Poster for A Very Private Affair

    Assistant Director

1961Aged 22

  • Poster for Léon Morin, Priest

    German Soldier (uncredited)

  • Poster for Last Year at Marienbad

    Second Assistant Director

1960Aged 21

  • Poster for Who Cares...

    Editor

Year unknown

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