Volker Schlöndorff (natural within Wiesbaden, Germany on March 31 1939) is a Berlin-based German filmmaker. He won an Oscar as well as a Golden Palm at a Cannes Film Festival for The Tin Drum (1979), the film version of the novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Günter Grass.

Schlöndorff has adapted numeroU.s.a. literary works for his film, including a few critically easily-received US productions, however he is too engaged inside post-war German politics. He served when a chief executive for the UFA studio in Babelsberg. Volker Schlöndorff besides teaches film & literature at a European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, where he conducts an Intensive Summer Seminar.

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