Patrick Süskind (born March 26, 1949) is a German writer and film script author.

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. He is the author of the internationally acclaimed bestseller Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (1985) He is also the author of a play, The Double Bass (1980), The Pigeon (1988), The Story of Mr Sommer (1991), Three Stories and a Reflection (1996).

Süskind lives reclusively in Munich, rarely granting interviews or enjoying any aspect of his fame.

Selected works

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

A movie based on Perfume is currently in the works and is scheduled to release in 2006.

Trivia

• Kurt Cobain used Süskind's Perfume as the basis of his song "Scentless Apprentice" from Nirvana's In Utero album.

External links

• IMDb page for Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
• The Literary Encyclopedia page for Patrick Süskind

1949 births | living people | German novelists | Natives of Bavaria

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