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.