Jakob Fischer (cultural manager)

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Jacob Fischer (* 14. August 1955 in Tobolino , Location Chimkent , Kazakh SSR , Soviet Union ) is a cultural manager in the field of Germans from Russia .

origin

Jakob Fischer's ancestors were Germans who emigrated to Russia in the 18th century. A branch of his ancestors on his mother's side came from Haßloch and founded the mother colony Kautz (Russian name: Werschinka, Russian Вершинка) on the mountain side of the Volga in 1767 , while the ancestors on the father's side emigrated from Hesse to the Volga region, where they settled in the mother colony of Messer (Russian name : Ust-Zolicha, Russian Усть-Золиха) settled down. At the end of the 19th century, however, they left the Volga region and moved on to Central Asia, where they founded the Volga-German subsidiary colony Konstantinovka in the Russian General Government of Turkestan near Tashkent in 1892. During the Soviet era (around 1925) Konstantinowka was renamed Tobolino. In contrast to the Volga , Black Sea and Caucasian German colonies, which for the most part ceased to exist after their German population moved to Siberia and Central Asia at the outbreak of the war between the German Reich and the Soviet Union in 1941 (meaning here: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan , Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan), Tobolino remained a German settlement even after the end of the Second World War , which was able to retain its linguistic and cultural peculiarities from its establishment until the mass emigration of its residents to Germany in the 1990s. This was mainly expressed by the fact that the Germans in Tobolino often only had rudimentary knowledge of the Russian language until the 1970s. Jakob Fischer learned Russian only after he started school, as only the Volga German dialect was used in his family .

Career

Fischer studied history and education in Tschimkent and German in Alma-Ata . From 1977 to 1982 Fischer was a teacher of history, German, choral singing and deputy headmaster in Leninskoje (today: Kosestek, kas. Қосестек), Aktyubinsk region , western Kazakhstan. From 1982 until he left for Germany in 1991 he worked as deputy theater director of the German Drama Theater in Temirtau , later in Alma-Ata.

He was the organizer of the first festival of German culture in 1988 in the Karaganda area . In October 1990, under his direction, the second festival took place in the then Kazakh capital of Alma-Ata. The festival with over 2000 participants from 120 regions of the USSR became the largest cultural event in the history of Germans in Russia.

Fischer was also a founding member of the society "Wiedergeburt", founded in Moscow on March 31, 1989, which campaigned for the restoration of the Volga German Republic .

Since 1995 he has been the project manager of the school teaching project Integration of Germans from Russia as a success story in Germany as part of the traveling exhibition “Germans from Russia. Past and present ”, presented nationwide by the Landsmannschaft der Germans from Russia and funded by the Federal Ministry of the Interior and the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees . Fischer became known throughout Germany for his events on the history and culture of Germans in Russia.

Fischer is an expert in the field of culture and folk songs of the Germans in the former Soviet Union. He is the editor of a songbook with German folk songs from Russia. Together with the musicians Wladimir Dederer, Eduard Frickel and the singers Katharina Rissling, Maria Penner-Weimer, Lina Neuwirt, Ida Haag-Depperschmidt, he produced three music albums with Russian-German folk songs.

In 2005/06 and 2007/08, Fischer organized concert tours for Russian-German music, song and dance groups from Germany to the descendants of the Volga Germans in Argentina . Since 2013 he has been chairman of the jury of the young talent competition “New Names” as part of the Festival of German Culture in Kazakhstan under the title “We are together”.

In December 2018 he received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon . The award ceremony took place on March 15, 2019 in Munich.

Fischer has lived in Nördlingen since 1991 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ (founded in 1892 as Konstantinowka or Konstantinowskoje; today's name: Derbisek, kas. Дербісек), wolgadeutsche.net: Oskar Schulz: Konstantinowka. On the founding of the southernmost German colony Konstantinowka 120 years ago in Tsarist Russia , p. 20, accessed on April 7, 2020.
  2. ↑ Veronika Fischer: Württemberg and Electoral Palatinate ways to Russia. Emigration, tsarism and communism in the fate of four families - Fischer, Neubauer, Krüger and Baierbach . In: Gerhard Fritz, Karlheinz Hegele, David Schnur (eds.): Gmünder Studien 9. Contributions to City History , Schwäbisch Gmünd 2018, ISBN 978-3-95747-082-9 , pp. 60-61, 68, 70, 96.
  3. ↑ reborn.kz : Фишер Якоб , accessed April 7, 2020 (Russian).
  4. ↑ wolgadeutsche.net: Rose Steinmark: Theater - a place where you learn to die ... Highlights from the history of the German Drama Theater Temirtau / Alma-Ata 1980 to 1992 , pp. 11, 16, 27, 28, accessed on 7. April 2020.
  5. ↑ daz.asia: Культура немцев на сцене Казахстана , (Russian); ibid. Wonderful collaboration ; neue-semljaki.de: Cultural mediators beyond the borders of the ethnic group , p. 55, accessed on April 7, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-German cultural manager
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Tobolino , Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic , Soviet Union