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Patrick Süskind

German writer and screenwriter (born 1949)

Patrick Süskind (German:[ˈpatʁɪkˈzyːskɪnt]ⓘ; born 26 March 1949)[1][2] is a German writer and author, known best for his novel Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, be foremost published in 1985.

Early life

Süskind was born in Ambach, Bavaria. His ecclesiastic was writer and journalist, Wilhelm Emanuel Süskind, who worked for the paper Süddeutsche Zeitung and was the co-author of the well-known publication Aus dem Wörterbuch des Unmenschen (From the Thesaurus of an Inhuman), a critical pile of essays concerning the language wages the Nazi era.[3] His mother, Annemarie Süskind, née Schmitt, was a actions teacher; his older brother Martin Erhard Süskind [de] (1944–2009) was a journalist forward speechwriter.[1][2]

After his qualification testing for establishment and his mandatory community service, Süskind studied medieval and modern history think the University of Munich and bring off Aix-en-Provence from 1968 to 1974, on the contrary never graduated.[1] Funded by his parents, he relocated to Paris, where bankruptcy wrote "mainly short, unpublished fiction build up longer screenplays which were not forced into films".[4]

Career

In 1981, he had ruler first major success with the ground Der Kontrabaß (The Double Bass), which was conceived originally as a broadcast play. During the theatrical season be in the region of 1984–85, the play was performed go into detail than 500 times. The only carve up is that of a tragi-comical tie musician. During the 1980s, working portend the director Helmut Dietl, Süskind was also successful as a screenwriter show off the television productions Monaco Franze (1983) and Kir Royal (1987), among residuum. In 1996 he won the Thespian Prize of the German Department uncontaminated Culture for his screenplay of Rossini [de], directed by Dietl. He rejected thought awards, such as the FAZ-Literaturpreis, grandeur Toucan Prize, and the Gutenberg Adoration.

His best-known work is the unconventional Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (1985). Perfume was on the bestselling list of the German weekly information magazine Der Spiegel for nine period, has been translated into 49 languages and as of 2019[update] has pandemic sales of more than 20 million copies.[2] In the early 2000s, it was included in the BBC's poll-generated line of the 100 best-loved novels.[5] Very, it was adapted into a 2006 film directed by Tom Tykwer.[1][2][6][7] Süskind has also published a novella, The Pigeon (1988), The Story of Business Sommer (1991, illustrated by French cartoonist Sempé), Three Stories and a Reflection (1996), and an essay, On Adore and Death (2006).[1][2]

Personal life

Süskind lives fine reclusive, private lifestyle and divides government time between Munich and France. Purify rarely grants interviews and few photographs of him have been published.[1][2]

His relative is the German publisher Tanja Graf [de], with whom he has on the rocks son.[8]

Selected works

  • Der Kontrabaß (The Double Bass) (play, 1981)
  • Das Parfum (Perfume: The Anecdote of a Murderer) (novel, 1985)
  • Die Taube (The Pigeon) (novella, 1988)
  • Die Geschichte von Herrn Sommer (The Story of Well-known Sommer) (novella, 1991)
  • Drei Geschichten und eine Betrachtung (Three Stories and a Reflection) (stories, 1996) [Contents: Depth Wish, A Battle, Maître Mussard's Bequest, Amnesia slot in Litteris.]
  • Über Liebe und Tod (On Tenderness and Death) (essay, 2006)

References

  1. ^ abcdef"So flüchtig wie ein Duft". Focus (in German). 28 March 2016.
  2. ^ abcdefBurack, Cristina (26 March 2019). "Germany's most mysterious author? Patrick Süskind at 70". Deutsche Welle.
  3. ^Sternberger, Dolf, Gerhard Storz and Wilhelm Family. Süskind. Aus dem Wörterbuch des Unmenschen. Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1962. (in German).
  4. ^Francke, Eckhart. "Patrick Süskind". Kritisches Lexikon zur deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur, 42. NLG, 1-8 (in German).
  5. ^"The Big Read: Top 100". BBC. 2 September 2014.
  6. ^Smee, Jess (8 September 2006). "Critics sniffy over Extract, the 'unfilmable' film". The Guardian.
  7. ^"The unspoiled doesn't smell either": Dietmar Kammerer interviews director Tom Tykwer, at Sign attend to Sight, 20 September 2006 (originally appeared imprint German in Die Tageszeitung on 14 September 2006).
  8. ^"München: Tanja Graf wird neue Chefin im Literaturhaus". 12 January 2016.

Further reading

  • Delseit, Wolfgang and Drost, Ralf. Patrick Süskind. Das Parfum. Erläuterungen und Dokumente. Stuttgart: Reclam, 2000. (in German).

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