Volker Schlöndorff

Born: Mar 31, 1939, Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany

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.

Real Name	Volker Schlöndorff
Date of Birth	Mar 31, 1939
Place of Birth	Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany
Age	87

POPULAR MOVIES

Return to Montauk

From Caligari to Hitler: German Cinema in the Age of the Masses

Fassbinder

Diplomacy

Calm at Sea

Memories of Last Year in Marienbad

Melville Steps Out of the Shadows

Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial

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