Volker Schlöndorff

Volker Schlöndorff is a Berlinbased German filmmaker He won an Oscar as well as the Palme dor at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival for The Tin Drum 1979 the film version of the novel by Nobel Prizewinning 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 wellreceived US productions but he is also engaged in postwar 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 SaasFee 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