Volker Schlöndorff
Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany
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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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Humor ist eine ernste Sache - Der Filmregisseur Kurt Hoffmann
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion
Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands
The Poet and the Filmmaker: Volker Schlöndorff on Baal
Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power
Unraveling the Enigma: The Making of Marienbad
Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
