Directing · Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany · Born March 31, 1939
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.
Igor and After
2026
Mein liebster Dokumentarfilm
2026
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MoviePan Olbrychski
2025
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MoviePeter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit
2024
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MovieCatching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg
2024
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MovieThe Stones and Brian Jones
2024
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TVGerman Genius
2023
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MovieMerkel
2022
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MovieWerner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
2022
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MovieAlain Resnais, the Audacious
2022
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MovieCome with Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
2022
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MovieRomy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion
2022
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Studio 3 - Live aus Babelsberg
2022
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MovieA Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
2021
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MovieVolker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the Drum
2020
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MovieLast Year in Dachau
2020
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MovieMelville, le dernier samouraï
2020
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MovieMargaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power
2019
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MovieHollywood's Second World War
2019
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Fuck the Message
2019
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Was tut sich - im deutschen Film?
2018
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MovieSympathisanten - Unser deutscher Herbst
2018
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MovieNever Be Boring: Billy Wilder
2017
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MovieWater and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
2017
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MovieTangerine Dream: Sound from Another World
2016
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MovieArthur Miller: A Man of His Century
2015
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MovieFrom Caligari to Hitler
2015
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The Poet and the Filmmaker: Volker Schlöndorff on Baal
2015
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MovieFassbinder
2015
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MovieHenri Langlois vu par...
2014
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Bewegte Republik Deutschland
2014
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Open Opera – Wer wird Carmen?
2012
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MovieDubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
2012
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TVSquare
2012
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Günther Jauch
2011
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MovieNuits transparentes
2011
Was wurde aus...?
2011
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MovieCave of Forgotten Dreams
2010
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MovieMichael Nyman in Progress
2010
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Museums-Check mit Markus Brock
2010
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MovieCode Name: Melville
2010
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Westpol
2010
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Memories of Last Year in Marienbad
2010
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MovieMelville Steps Out of the Shadows
2010
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MovieUnraveling the Enigma: The Making of Marienbad
2009
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MoviePeter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial
2009
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MovieMalle's Fire Within
2008
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MovieFilmmakers in Action
2006
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MovieBilly Wilder Speaks
2006
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MovieKnef - Die frühen Jahre
2005
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Gottschalk meets Petersen
2005
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Who is Helene Schwarz?
2005
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Von Sex bis Simmel
2005
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MovieFritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands
2004
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Die Verhoevens
2003
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TVUn film et son époque
2003
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Gero von Boehm begegnet...
2002
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MovieMarlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
2002
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Ein Produzent hat Seele oder er hat keine
2002
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Im Glashaus - Das philosophische Quartett
2002
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MovieVolker Schlöndorff Remembers The Tin Drum
2001
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TVAbendschau
2000
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Schrott - Die Atzenposse
2000
TVmaybrit illner
1999
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Volle Kanne
1999
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TVBeckmann
1999
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Alpha Forum
1998
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Nachtstudio
1997
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Im Dialog
1997
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TVDie Harald Schmidt Show
1995
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MovieThe Night of the Filmmakers
1995
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TVBilly, How Did You Do It?
1992
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TVMorgenmagazin
1992
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MovieI Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
1992
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MovieBilly, How Did You Do It?
1992
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TVFilm Lesson
1991
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Zeil um Zehn
1990
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Romy Award
1990
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ZDF-Mittagsmagazin
1989
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TVNachtcafé
1987
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MoviePrivate Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
1986
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TVAmerican Masters
1986
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MovieHumor ist eine ernste Sache - Der Filmregisseur Kurt Hoffmann
1985
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MovieHands Up!
1985
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Goldene Kamera
1984
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TVChamps-Elysées
1982
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Bavarian Film Awards
1979
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TVNDR Talk Show
1979
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MovieCinématon
1978
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TVCiné regards
1978
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MovieSigns of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
1976
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TVKölner Treff
1976
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TVLes Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
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MovieDe qui dépend que l’oppression demeure ?
1975
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3 nach 9
1974
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TVSpécial cinéma
1974
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Je später der Abend
1973
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MovieMathias Kneißl
1971
TV11 Uhr 20
1970
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Titel, Thesen, Temperamente
1967
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MovieNeuer Deutscher Film Report
1967
MovieChance at Love
1964
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MovieLe Doulos
1962
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MovieLéon Morin, Priest
1961
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German Film Award
1951
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Ulrich Matthes - Leidenschaft und Haltung
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