Patrick Süskind

Emerging from a Bavarian background-his father a journalist and his mother a sports teacher-he pursued medieval and modern history at Munich’s university and spent two semesters in Aix-en-Provence before abandoning formal studies and relocating to Paris, where parental support allowed him to write short fiction and unproduced screenplays. A breakthrough arrived with the 1981 radio-originated play… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources