Knowra Patrick Süskind Patrick Süskind Patrick Süskind is a German novelist and screenwriter best known for Perfume: The Story of a Murderer , a novel about an eighteenth-century perfumer and murderer.
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer : A 1985 novel by Patrick Süskind about Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, an unusually gifted perfumer who becomes a murderer. This internationally acclaimed novel is the work most closely associated with Süskind.
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (film) : A 2006 film directed by Tom Tykwer, adapted from Patrick Süskind's novel Perfume: The Story of a Murderer . The film makes the novel's notoriously difficult sensory subject matter a problem of cinematic adaptation.
Olfaction : The sense of smell, produced when odor molecules stimulate receptors in the olfactory system. In Perfume , scent becomes Grenouille's means of perceiving, manipulating, and dominating others.
Tom Tykwer : A German film director, screenwriter, and composer who directed the 2006 film Perfume: The Story of a Murderer . Tykwer directed the best-known screen adaptation of Süskind's novel.
The Pigeon : A 1987 novella by Patrick Süskind about a bank guard whose orderly life is disrupted by a pigeon. Its compressed portrait of anxiety contrasts with the scale and historical setting of Perfume .
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (musical) : A musical adaptation of Patrick Süskind's novel, with music by Bernd Stempfel and lyrics by Stephen Oliver. Its stage form demonstrates another approach to translating the novel's focus on smell.
Obsession : A persistent preoccupation that dominates a person's thoughts and can drive repetitive behavior. Grenouille's single-minded pursuit of perfect fragrance turns talent into a destructive obsession.
Bernd Eichinger : A German film producer and screenwriter who produced and co-wrote the 2006 film Perfume: The Story of a Murderer . Eichinger helped bring the novel to the screen after a long period of adaptation development.
The Double Bass : A monologue play by Patrick Süskind in which an orchestral double bassist reflects on music, status, and isolation. This early success established Süskind as a dramatist before his best-known novel.
The Double Bass (film) : A 1985 German television film adaptation of Patrick Süskind's monologue play The Double Bass . The screen version carries Süskind's single-character theatrical work into television.
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