The premiere of 'Contrabass' took place in September 1981 and pleased the audience. In short, he was interrupted by odd jobs, until the play 'Contrabass' was born in the early 1980s.Ĭontrabass was originally conceived as a radio show, but has turned into a full-fledged one-man show about a little man.

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).īefore plunging into the literary world, Patrick Süskind worked as a table tennis coach, manager at Siemens, and a pianist in a bar. None of the texts born at that time were published. In 1974, with the financial support of his parents, Suskind moved to Paris, where he wrote short fiction and film scripts. For 6 years of study, the young man could not get a diploma. As the biography of the writer shows, the prediction came true.Īfter serving in the army after school, Süskind entered the Faculty of Medieval and Modern History at the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich in 1968. 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.

Here the young man received his secondary education: first in a regular school, then in a gymnasium. The writer's childhood passed in the Bavarian village of Holzhausen. His family includes theologian Johann Albrecht Bengel and composer, pianist Johann Brenz.Ī post shared by catarsisbookstore on at 9:34 pm PDT Father's creative streak was passed on to both children - Patrick and his older brother Martin, who became a renowned journalist. The future author of 'Perfume' was born on Main the German commune of Ambach, near Munich, in the family of the publicist Wilhelm Emanuel Süskind, a German by nationality.

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