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Also known as Patrick Suskind

German writer and screenwriter

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Patrick Süskind is a German writer and screenwriter best known for creating compelling literary works and film scripts. He matters primarily for his contributions to contemporary literature and cinema, though specific details about his most notable works would require additional context.

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Person · Open Library

Born
March 26, 1949
Works
84

Top works

  • הבושם
  • Das Parfum
  • Perfume
  • Erläuterung zu Patrick Süsskind, Der Kontrabass
  • Perfume Title:Subtitle the story of a murderer

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Germany
Active from
1949-03-26
audio dramaaudiobookhas german audio playshas german audiobooks

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
683
Total plays
15,866

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Quotes

  • In eighteenth-century France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable personages.
  • The rivers stank, the marketplaces stank, the churches stank, it stank beneath the bridges and in the palaces. The peasant stank as did the priest, the apprentice as did his master’s wife, the whole of the aristocracy stank, even the king himself stank, stank like a rank lion, and the queen like an old goat, summer and winter.
  • Their heads, up on top, at the back of the head, where the hair makes a cowlick...is where they smell best of all...Once you've smelled them there, you love them whether they’re your own or somebody else's.
  • The odour of humans is always a fleshly odour—that is, a sinful odour.
  • He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and malice.
  • Whoever has survived his own birth on a rubbish heap is not so easily shoved back out of this world again.

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Patrick Süskind
date of birth
1949-03-26
name in native language
Patrick Süskind
start of work period
1980-00-00
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Patrick Süskind ( German: [ˈpatʁɪk ˈzyːskɪnt] ; born 26 March 1949) is a German writer and screenwriter, known best for his novel Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, first published in 1985.

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