Patrick Süskind

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Patrick Süskind (born March 26, 1949) is a German writer and screenwriter.

He was born in Ambach am Starnberger See, near Munich in Germany. His father was Wilhelm Emanuel Süskind. He studied Medieval and Modern History at the University of Munich and in Aix-en-Provence from 1968-1974. In the 1980s he worked as a screenwriter, for "Kir Royal" and "Monaco Franze" among others. His best known work is the internationally acclaimed bestseller Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (1985). He is also the author of a play, The Double Bass (1980), a novella, The Pigeon (1988), The Story of Mr. Sommer (1991), Three Stories and a Reflection (1996), and a collection of essays, On Love and Death (2006). For a number of seasons, The Double Bass was a leading piece on German stages.

Süskind lives in Munich, and rarely grants interviews.

[edit] Selected works

• Perfume
• The Story of Mr Sommer
• The Pigeon
• Double Bass (play)
• Three Stories and a Reflection
• On Love and Death (essays)

A movie based on Perfume was released in 2006.

[edit] External links

• The Literary Encyclopedia page for Patrick Süskind
• Smee, Jess. "Critics sniffy over Perfume, the 'unfilmable' film", The Guardian, September 8, 2006.
• Urs, Jenny. "Worth the Wait?", Spiegel International, September 8, 2006.
• The book doesn't smell either": Dietmar Kammerer interviews director Tom Tykwer, at Sign and Sight, September 20, 2006 (originally appeared in German in Die Tageszeitung on September 14, 2006).