Volker Schlöndorff (born in Wiesbaden, Germany in March 31 1939) is a Berlin-based German filmmaker who won an Oscar as well as the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival for The Tin Drum (1979), the film version of the novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Günter Grass.

Schlöndorff is adopting many literary works for his movies but he is also engaged in post-war German politics. He served as the chief executive for the UFA studio in Babelsberg. Volker Schlöndorff also teaches film and literature at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, where he conducts an Intensive Summer Seminar.

Filmography

• Ten Minutes Older: The Cello (2002) (segment "The Enlightenment")
• Die Stille Nach Dem Schuß (1999; 2000 English title The Legend of Rita)
• Palmetto (1998) (Dumme sterben nicht aus)
• The Ogre (1996) (Der Unhold)
• Billy How Did You Do It (1992) (Billy Wilder, wie haben Sie's gemacht)
• Homo Faber (1991) (Voyager)
• The Handmaid's Tale (1990)
• Death of a Salesman (1985) (Der Tod eines Handlungsreisenden)
• Krieg und Frieden (1983) (War and Peace)
• Die Blechtrommel (1979) (The Tin Drum)
• Der Fangschuß (1976) (Le Coup de grâce)
• Die Verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum oder: Wie Gewalt entstehen und wohin sie führen kann (1975) (Lost Honor of Katharina Blum)
• Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach (1971) (Der Plötzliche Reichtum der armen Leute von Kombach'')
• Der Junge Törless (1966) (Young Torless)