David Schütz (Hebrew: דוד שיץ, born 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. The book was translated into French (L'herbe et le sable : roman) and into German (Gras und Sand : roman).