Director of
Heimsuchung
Volker Schlöndorff, born in 1939, is one of the most defining directors of German auteur cinema and became the first German director to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film with DIE BLECHTROMMEL in 1980. He has worked both in Germany and in the US. Among his best-known works are also DER JUNGE TÖRLESS (1966), DIE VERLORENE EHRE DER KATHARINA BLUM (1975), DEATH OF A SALESMAN (1985) und RÜCKKEHR NACH MONTAUK (2017). With HEIMSUCHUNG, his first major cinema work since then, he adapts Jenny Erpenbeck's international bestselling novel. The film had its world premiere in 2026 in the Cannes Première section at the Cannes Film Festival, starring Lars Eidinger, Martina Gedeck, and Susanne Wolff in the lead roles.
Films (selection): DER JUNGE TÖRLESS (1966), DIE BLECHTROMMEL (1979), DIE VERLORENE EHRE DER KATHARINA BLUM (1975), DEATH OF A SALESMAN (1985), RÜCKKEHR NACH MONTAUK (2017), HEIMSUCHUNG (2026)