Patrick Süskind

Patrick Süskind considered his novel Perfumer. The Story of a Murderer "is a work that" may not be worth reading ", so initially 10,000 copies were released. It took the publishers a couple of months to realize that they have a masterpiece in front of them that will become immortal. Today "Perfume" has been translated into 49 languages ​​(including "dead" Latin) and sold 20 million copies. Despite his reclusive lifestyle, Patrick Süskind remains one of the most famous German-speaking writers.

The future author of "Perfume" was born on March 26, 1949 in the German commune of Ambach, near Munich, in the family of the publicist Wilhelm Emanuel Süskind, a German by nationality. Father's creative streak was passed on to both children - Patrick and his older brother Martin, who became a renowned journalist. Suskind is a hereditary aristocrat. His family includes theologian Johann Albrecht Bengel and composer, pianist Johann Brenz.

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The writer's childhood passed in the Bavarian village of Holzhausen. Here the young man received his secondary education: first in a regular school, then in a gymnasium. They say that once at a literature lesson, in response to the "injections" of a teacher, Süskind said that in the future he would write a book that would immortalize his name. As the biography of the writer shows, the prediction came true.

After serving in the army after school, Süskind entered the Faculty of Medieval and Modern History at the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich in 1968. For 6 years of study, the young man could not get a diploma.

In 1974, with the financial support of his parents, Suskind moved to Paris, where he wrote short fiction and film scripts. None of the texts born at that time were published. Some ideas, greatly distorted compared to the original version, formed the basis of the series "Monaco Franz" (1983) and "Cyrus Royal" (1986), the films "Rossini" (1996) and "On the Search for Love" (2005).

Before plunging into the literary world, Patrick Süskind worked as a table tennis coach, manager at Siemens, and a pianist in a bar. In short, he was interrupted by odd jobs, until the play "Contrabass" was born in the early 1980s.

Contrabass was originally conceived as a radio show, but has turned into a full-fledged one-man show about a little man. The premiere of "Contrabass" took place in September 1981 and pleased the audience. From season to season, the performance gathered a full hall. So, in 1984-1985, the production was played more than 500 times. The name of the young playwright was on the lips of members of the German and French society, which mainly ensured the popularity of the "Perfumer".

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The protagonist of the novel “Perfumer. The Story of a Murderer ”(1985) Jean-Baptiste Grenouille had a keen sense of smell from childhood, but coupled with the outward ugliness of this talent rather frightened people than surprised. The novel is based on the real story of Manuel Blanco Romasant, Spain's first serial killer. Under the influence of clinical lycanthropy (the man thought he was turning into a wolf), he killed 13 people. The killer made soap out of the fat of the victims.

The novel by Patrick Suskind was originally published with a circulation of 10 thousand copies, later another 150 thousand books were printed. Now "Perfumer" is the best-selling piece written in German.

The adaptation of the book, which was on the bestseller list for 9 years, was a success, but Patrick Süskind refused to sell the rights for a decade. The writer believed that the only director who could correctly convey the idea of ​​the novel is Stanley Kubrick, the creator of A Clockwork Orange (1971) and The Shining (1980).

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In 1999, Kubrick passed away, and Süskind found it pointless to continue fighting the directors. As a result, the rights to shoot went to the German Tom Tykver. The film cost € 50 million - the highest budget in the history of German cinema - and was released in 2006.

Süskind's creativity on “Perfume” was not exhausted: the stories “The Dove” (1987) and “Thirst for the Depth” (1995), the collection “Three stories and one observation” (1995), essays “On love and death” (2006), but none of these works can be even one third comparable to the cult of the "story of one killer."

Autobiographical in "The Tale of Herr Sommer" is not a boy, but a strange unsociable man. The personal life of Patrick Suskind colorfully hints that he himself would not mind repeating the phrase several dozen times: "But leave me, finally, alone!" After all, it is not known whether the writer has a spouse and children, where he lives, what he does.

Suskind is so harsh on the boundaries of personal space that he does not agree to interviews and awards. When Perfumer won the Best Debut award in 1986, the writer refused to accept it so that journalists could not decorate it with newspaper editorials.

In the media field, there are only a couple of photos of Patrick Suskind and 3 interviews that the writer gave in the late 1980s.

In 2016, Suskind married his longtime acquaintance Tanya Graf, with whom he is raising a son. The wife of the writer is also related to literature - she is a publisher and a literary agent.

Presumably, the author of "Perfumer" lives as a hermit in the German city of Seheim-Jugenheim, near Lake Starnberger See, or in the French province of Montolleu.

Due to his closed lifestyle, Patrick Süskind received the nicknames Phantom Writer, Mysterious Mister Z., Behind the Scenes Genius. Indeed, the German master lowered the "iron curtain" so tightly that even the news of his death may reach the world with a delay.

There is no news about the imminent release of new books.

“People can close their eyes and not see greatness, horror, beauty, and plug their ears, and not hear people or words. But they can't help but succumb to the scent. For fragrance is the brother of breath. With the scent, it will enter people, and they will not be able to defend themselves against it if they want to live ... Whoever owns the smell owns the hearts of people. " “Going up is not a question. But how to go down again? " "In every art, as well as in every craft - hack it on your nose before you leave - talent means almost nothing, the main thing is the experience gained through modesty and diligence." "I always need a woman that I can't get."

1980 - "Contrabass" 1985 - "Perfume. The Story of a Murderer "1987 -" The Dove "1991 -" The Tale of Herr Sommer "1995 -" Thirst for the Depth "1995 -" Three Stories and One Observation "2006 -" About Love and Death "

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