Stützle studied political science at the Free University of Berlin and completed his doctorate at the Philipps University of Marburg in 2012 with a thesis entitled Der ausgeglichene Staatshaushalt als Paradigma und politisches Projekt.
Based on this, he published the book Austerität als politisches Projekt.
Von der monetären Integration Europas zur Eurokrise (Austerity as a Political Project.
[4] Since 2019, he has been in charge of the Marx-Engels-Werkausgabe (MEW; Max Engels Collected Works) at Karl Dietz Verlag Berlin.
[5] Stützle was a member of the editorial board of the monthly newspaper ak - analyse & kritik, where he published book reviews and articles.