Biography
Volker Schlöndorff is a German film director, screenwriter and producer. Born in Wiesbaden in 1939, he studied in Paris and worked as an assistant director to Louis Malle, Jean-Pierre Melville and Alain Resnais before making his feature debut with Young Törless (1966).
Schlöndorff is best known for The Tin Drum (1979), which he directed and co-wrote. The film shared the Palme d’Or at Cannes and won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Other notable works include The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975, co-directed with Margarethe von Trotta), The Handmaid’s Tale (1990) and Diplomacy (2014). He has also served as chief executive of Studio Babelsberg and teaches film and literature at the European Graduate School.
