What is Volker Schlöndorff?
{{Infobox person | image = Volker Schloendorff Lodz Poland November29 2009 Fot Mariusz Kubik 05.jpg | name = '''Volker Schlöndorff''' | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1939|3|31|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Wiesbaden]], [[Nazi Germany|Germany]] | years_active = 1960–present | birth_name = | occupation = [[Film director]], screenwriter, producer | spouse = [[Margarethe von Trotta]] (1971-1991; divorced)<br>Angelika Schlöndorff }} '''Volker Schlöndorff''' (born 31 March 1939) is a [[Germany|German]] [[movie director]], [[screenwriter]], and [[movie producer]]. He is a very important director of the [[New German Cinema]] of the late 1960s and early 1970s. He won an [[Academy Awards|Oscar]] as well as the [[Palme d'or]] at the [[1979 Cannes Film Festival]] for ''[[The Tin Drum (movie)|The Tin Drum]]'' (1979), the movie version of the novel by [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]]-winning author [[Günter Grass]].<ref>[http://www.egs.edu/faculty/volker-schloendorff/biography/ Volker Schlöndorff] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100422190647/http://www.egs.edu/faculty/volker-schloendorff/biography/ |date=2010-04-22 }} at [[European Graduate School]]. Biography and bibliography. (Retrieved May 14, 2010)</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== {{Commonscat-inline|Volker Schlöndorff}} * [http://www.egs.edu/faculty/volker-schloendorff/biography/ Volker Schlöndorff] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100422190647/http://www.egs.edu/faculty/volker-schloendorff/biography/ |date=2010-04-22 }} Faculty Website @ [[European Graduate School]]. Biography and bibliography. * {{IMDb name|772522|Volker Schlöndorff}} * [http://www.gerardcourant.com/projection.php?t=c&film=572 Volker Schlöndorff's Cinématon - A 4 minutes online portrait by Gérard Courant] * [http://deutsches-filminstitut.de/archive-bibliothek/nachlaesse-und-sammlungen/sammlung-volker-schloendorff/ Volker Schlöndorff Collection] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140209131114/h