Volker Schlöndorff

Volker Schlöndorff adalah pembuat film Jerman yang tinggal di Berlin. Ia memenangkan Oscar dan Palme d'or di Festival Film Cannes 1979 untuk The Tin Drum (1979), versi film dari novel karya penulis pemenang Hadiah Nobel Günter Grass. Pada tahun 1991, ia menjadi Ketua Juri di Festival Film Internasional Berlin ke-41. Schlöndorff telah mengadaptasi banyak karya sastra untuk film-filmnya, termasuk beberapa produksi AS yang mendapat sambutan baik, namun ia juga terlibat dalam politik Jerman pascaperang. Dia menjabat sebagai kepala eksekutif studio UFA di Babelsberg. Schlöndorff juga mengajar film dan sastra di European Graduate School di Saas-Fee, Swiss, di mana dia mengadakan Seminar Musim Panas Intensif. Ia menikah dengan sesama sutradara film Margarethe von Trotta dari tahun 1971 hingga 1991. Ia saat ini menikah dengan Angelika Schlöndorff, dan pasangan tersebut memiliki seorang putri.

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.