Patrick Süskind

About Patrick Süskind

Patrick’s dad was Wilhelm Emanuel Suskind, a journalist and writer, who worked for the newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung and is famous for being the co-author of the well known publication “From the Dictionary of an Inhuman”. Patrick attended school in Holzhausen, a tiny Bavarian village. His mom worked as a sports trainer, while his older brother Martin E. Suskind is a journalist, too. Patrick has got many relatives from the aristocracy in Wurttenberg, making him one of the descendants of the reformer Johannes Brenz and the exegete Johan Albrecht Bengel. After his qualification testing for university and the mandatory community service, he studied modern and medieval history at the University of Munich and in Aix-en-Provence from 1968 until 1974, but he never graduated. Having been funded by