Fischer, Jacob

Jakob Fischer was born 14 August 1955 in Konstantinovka (today, Tobolino) in Kazakhstan. Today he lives in Nördlingen, Germany.

Fischer is an expert on the culture and folk songs of Germans in the former Soviet Union. He is the editor of a songbook of German folk songs from Russia. Together with musicians Vladimir Dederer and Eduard Frikel and singers Katarina Riessling, Maria Penner-Weimer, Lina Neuwirth, and Ida Haag-Depperschmidt, he released three music albums with Russian-German folk songs.

His mother's side of the family settled in the Volga German of Kautz. His father's side comes from the colony of Messer.