David Schütz

David Schütz (Hebrew: דוד שיץ; August 5, 1941 – July 16, 2017) was an Israeli fiction writer.

David Schütz (birth name Dietmar Engbert Müllner) was born in Berlin and immigrated to Israel at the age of seven.

He had a master's degree in history from The Hebrew University and also studied cinema at the BFI.

His first book "The Grass and the Sand" (Hebrew: העשב והחול) was published in 1978.

His characters struggle with the aftermath of catastrophe of the Holocaust, suffering its consequences in their day-to-day existence, often from the standpoint of a child.