Julian Schutting Collection

Julian Schutting Collection

Time period: from 1953

The premortem bequest of Julian Schutting was received in 2016, followed by several subsequent deliveries. 
The ‘Works’ category includes manuscripts in various forms and stages of development, as well as notes, and diary-like entries which Schutting himself referred to as ‘Tageshefte’ or ‘Datierte Blätter.’ Apart from a few texts from the early years, the collection contains little material from the 1970s and 1980s; most of it dates from after 2000. Also included in the works is Julian Schutting's photographic estate, a collection of 1,882 photographs from around 1995–2010, which has already been digitized in its entirety. The correspondence is limited to two archive boxes containing 365 items. This includes letters from Hilde Spiel, Friederike Mayröcker, Heidi Pataki, Gertrud Fussenegger, Cardinal Groër and Jochen Jung. Alongside two passports and personal documents, the biographical documents contain a small collection of short biographies and several boxes of photographs. The collections includes publication records as well as translations, reviews, recordings, and a collection of program booklets and event photographs.
Lists are available upon request for those wishing to research the collection.

Julian Schutting was born on October 25th, 1937, in Amstetten (Lower Austria). At the age of 15, he transferred from his local secondary school to the Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt—an art and graphic design school—in Vienna to train as a photographer. This was followed by studies in history and German language and literature at the University of Vienna, which he completed in 1963 with a dissertation in history. For over 20 years, Schutting worked as a teacher at a technical college in Vienna (1965–1987). From 1999 onwards, he held workshops at the school for poetry in Vienna. 

Schutting's public presence as a writer (until his gender reassignment in 1989 under the first name Jutta) began in the early 1970s. Since 1973, Julian Schutting has published over 50 works, mainly poetry and prose, but also plays, radio plays, and lectures on poetry. A precise, sometimes playful use of language, critical linguistic analyses and accurate observations, as well as a decidedly anti-narrative position, continue to characterize his texts to this day.

Julian Schutting lives in Vienna.

Awards and Prizes:

2022 H. C. Artmann Award
2015 Gert Jonke Award
2013 Biennial Book Award of the Salzburg Chamber of Commerce
1997 Decoration of Honour in Gold for Services to the State of Vienna
1989 Georg Trakl Award for Poetry from the Federal Ministry of Education and Art
1988 Achievement Award of the State of Lower Austria
1983 Anton Wildgans Award from the Federation of Austrian Industry
1981 Achievement Award for Literature from the Federal Ministry of Education and Art
1974 Cultural Award from the City of Amstetten
1974 Grant Award from the City of Vienna
1973 Grant Award from the State of Lower Austria
1971 Austria Outstanding Artist Award for Literature in the category of Poetry