Prof. Erhard Schütz

Erhardt Schütz has been Professor of Modern German Literature at the Humboldt University since 1996 and is an expert in post-war German literature and cinema having written on cultural politics during the Allied occupation of Germany and on early rubble cinema. He is a cultural critic for newspapers including Tagesspiegel, Der Freitag and Das Magazin. He edits the Zeitschrift für Germanistik and is a member of the German PEN Centre.

Prof. Erhard Schütz's Publications

  • Keiner kommt davon. Zeitgeschichte in der Literatur nach 1945
  • Solitäre und Netzwerker: Akteure des kulturpolitischen Konservatismus nach 1945 in den Westzonen Deutschlands
  • “‘When Everything Falls to Pieces’: Rubble in German Films before the Rubble Films.” In German Postwar Films: Life and Love in the Ruins