Erich Schutt was a German photographer and photo-journalist.
13 Facts About Erich Schutt
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Erich Schutt was at his most prolific in the German Democratic Republic during the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
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Erich Schutt was born at Vetschau in the flatlands west of Cottbus about eighteen months before the Hitler government took power.
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In 1947, Erich Schutt embarked on an apprenticeship in pharmacy, working in the photography department of a Vetschau business called "Spreewald-Drogerie Petzold".
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Erich Schutt mastered the technical skills needed to develop, copy, and enlarge photographs.
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The recently launched Brandenburgische Neueste Nachrichten was a stand-alone and modestly equipped publication, and on getting home to Vetschau later that day Erich Schutt went straight back to the photography department of "Spreewald-Drogerie Petzold", the specialist shop where he was employed, in order to develop his film and print off the pictures, which he was able to deliver to his editor's desk the next day.
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Erich Schutt was helped in this task by a colleague who soon became his wife.
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Erich Schutt remained a member of the newspaper's staff till his retirement at the age of 63.
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In 1966, at the conclusion of a three-year distance learning course of study, Erich Schutt obtained a degree in Journalism at the specialist School of Journalism of the Association of GDR Journalists attached to the University of Leipzig, widely seen as the most prestigious university-level institution for training journalists in a country which attached great importance to "training" its journalists.
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Erich Schutt started drawing his pension in 1994, but for at least twenty-five years after that he still kept turning up with a camera.
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Commentators note that during his career Erich Schutt consciously tried to avoid photographing carefully staged "press photograph" scenes.
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However, between 2016 and 2018 Erich Schutt collaborated with the Deutsche Presse-Agentur to have approximately 1,500 images from his life's work digitally recorded and catalogued.
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Alongside published volumes of his pictures, Erich Schutt's work continues to feature in public exhibitions.