Patrick Süskind

Book fact sheet
Patrick Süskind
Die Taube
General Fiction
104 pages
11.6 x 18.4 cm
appears 1987
Published by Diogenes as Die Taube
English Title: The Pigeon
World rights are handled by Diogenes
This title has been published in 40 languages.
Arabic (Al-Kamel)
Chinese (TW) Complex Characters (Business
Weekly)
English (UK) (Hamish Hamilton)
French (Fayard)
Hebrew (Am Oved)
Hungarian (Partvonal)
Italian (Longanesi)
Italian (Corbaccio)
Korean (Open Books)
Macedonian (Magor)
Persian (Nashr-e Markaz)
Portuguese (PT) (Presença)
Romanian (Humanitas Fiction)
Russian (Azbooka-Klassik)
Serbian (IKC Solaris)
Spanish (Seix Barral)
Turkish (Can)
Ukrainian (Folio)
Cinema Adaptation
2006: Das Parfum. Die Geschichte eines Mörders
Director: Tom Tykwer
Storyboard: Andrew Birkin
Actors: Ben Wishaw, Alan Rickman, Rachel-HurdWood, Dustin Hoffman
In five months' time the guard of a Parisian bank who has come to
understand that the only purpose of his job is to open the door of the
director's car, will finally have fully paid off his little garret thus marking
the completion of yet another chapter of his life plan. But this fatalistic
course of events is abruptly called into question by a pigeon which
unexpectedly appears on a hot Friday morning in August 1984.
2005: Vom Suchen und Finden der Liebe
Director: Helmut Dietl
Actors: Moritz Bleibtreu, Alexandra Maria Lara, Uwe
Ochsenknecht
1997: Rossini
Director: Helmut Dietl
Actors: Götz George, Mario Adorf, Heiner
Lauterbach, Veronica Ferres, Gudrun Landgrebe
1991: Kontrabaß
Director: Vladimir Momcilovic
Actors: Predrag Ejdus
Awards
2007
2007
2007
2006
2006
1997
1997
Bayerischer Filmpreis für die Beste Regie an
Tom Tykwer.
6 Lolas beim Deutschen Filmpreis 2007
DIVA, Schauspieler des Jahres.
für Ben Whishaw und Karoline Herfurth.
Bambi für den Besten Film des Jahres.
Bundesfilmpreis (›Goldenes Filmband‹) für
den besten deutschen Film. Weitere
Auszeichnungen für die beste Regie
(Helmut Dietl), beste Nebendarstellerin
(Martina Gedeck) und den besten Schnitt
(Inez Regnier).
Bayrischer Filmpreis. Regiepreis für Helmut
Dietl; Darstellerpreis für Heiner Lauterbach;
Preis für die beste schauspielerische
Nachwuchsleistung für Jan Josef Liefers
1997
1996
1987
1987
1987
1987
1987
Ernst-Lubitsch-Preis.
Drehbuchpreis des
Bundesinnenministeriums für ›Rossini oder
die mörderische Frage, wer mit wem
schlief‹.
F.A.Z.-Literaturpreis.
Deutscher Fernsehpreis ›Telestar‹
World Fantasy Award for Best Novel
Tukan-Preis.
Gutenberg-Preis.
Praised by the press
»Süskind traces the story of Jonathan Noel, whose
life evolves smoothly until his dark encounter with a
beady-eyed, diabolic pigeon…frightening and
surprisingly moving.« – The Guardian, London
Patrick Süskind’s books have been
published in 56 languages.
Patrick Süskind, born in Ambach on Lake Starnberg
in 1949, studied medieval and modern history in
Munich and Aix-en-Provence, making a living
writing screenplays. His one-person play ›The
Double Bass‹ appeared in 1984, his novel ›Perfume:
The Story of a Murderer‹ in 1985, the short story
›The Pigeon‹ in 1987 and ›The Story of Mr Sommer‹
with illustrations by Jean-Jacques Sempé in 1991.
Foto: © Philipp Keel
The Story of Mr Sommer
128 pages
2016
Perfume
320 pages
2006
Bestseller
Cinema Adaption
Three Stories and a
Reflection
96 pages
2005
The Pigeon
112 pages
1990
Perfume - The Movie
160 pages
2006
On Love and Death
64 pages
2006
The Double Bass
112 pages
2005
Cinema Adaption