For his screenplay of Rossini, directed by Helmut Dietl, he won the Screenplay Prize of the German Department for Culture in 1996. Süskind was also successful as a screenwriter for the TV productions Monaco Franze (1983) and Kir Royal (1987), among others. In the 1984-85 theatrical season, the play was performed more than 500 times. Financially supported by his parents, he moved to Paris where he wrote "mainly short, unpublished fiction and longer screenplays which were not made into films." In 1981, he had his breakthrough with the play Der Kontrabaß (The Double Bass), which was originally conceived as a radio play. Süskind studied Medieval and Modern History at the University of Munich and in Aix-en-Provence from 1968-1974, but never graduated. His mother worked as a sports trainer his older brother Martin E. Patrick Süskind went to school in Holzhausen, a little Bavarian village. His father was writer and journalist Wilhelm Emanuel Süskind, who worked for the Süddeutsche Zeitung and is famous as the co-author of the well-known Aus dem Wörterbuch des Unmenschen (From the Dictionary of an Inhuman), a critical collection of essays on the language of the Nazi era. Süskind was born in Ambach am Starnberger See, near Munich in Germany. Initially the dense scented clouds of myrrh and aromatic substances were used in religious rites, especially during the offerings to the gods, reached beyond the sky, in an extraterrestrial dimension.īut soon the perfume and the sense connected to it became an instrument of seduction with very high potential.Patrick Süskind is a German writer and screenwriter, best known for his internationally acclaimed novel Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, first published in 1985. It is no coincidence that the very etymology of the term leads us to ” per fumum”, that is through smoking. It begins when the man discovers that burning some particular types of wood and resins, smells and fragrant winds are released. The history of perfume is lost in the night of time. And there is no strong feeling that it not accompanied by imperceptible aromas. It carries with him messages and memories that are indissolubly linked to the most intimate thoughts. It has the power to bring back moments and feelings that belong to a distant past. The scent stimulates everything that belongs to the most irrational part of the mind. You can not refuse the force of persuasion of the perfume, it penetrates into us as the air we breath, penetrates into our lungs, fills us, dominates us totally, there is no way to oppose it.įrom the book “Il profumo” by Patrick Suskindīetween myth and reality, the scent is the creator of a strange alchemy between the organic matter that composes it and the impalpable vibrations that it is able to produce in man. The perfume has a more convincing force of persuasion than words, appearance and feelings.
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