Linus Schütz was born in 1993 in Stuttgart. He grew up in Essen, where he began taking dance and acting lessons at an early age. During his acting studies at the Folkwang University of the Arts between 2014 and 2018, he performed at the Ruhrfestspiele and in Adolf Winkelmann’s Ruhrgebiet film “Junges Licht”. In 2016, he was accepted as a scholarship holder into the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. His diploma piece “Bonnie & Clyde” was awarded the Folkwang Prize, and with the production “Much Ado About Nothing”, he was invited to Palestine as part of an exchange program with the Drama Academy Ramallah. In the 2017 season, Linus Schütz performed at the Residenztheater in Munich and the Schauspielhaus Bochum. In 2018, he received a scholarship to study abroad at the Susan Batson Acting Studio in New York. From 2018 to 2021, he was a permanent ensemble member at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden. For the 2021/22 season, he joined the ensemble of the Schauspiel Bern.