Robert Fischer was born 1954 in Greven/Westphalia. He started writing about film in the mid-1970s and soon became one of Germany"s foremost film historians, publishing books on Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, David Lynch, Quentin Tarantino, Jodie Foster, Bernhard Wicki and François Truffaut. For his translations of Truffaut"s complete writings into German, he was named "Chevalier des Arts et Lettres" by the French Cultural Minister Jack Lang.

Together with Joe Hembus he wrote a history of the New German Cinema. He teaches at Munich"s Academy of Television & Film (HFF/M) and has served as a programmer for the Munich International Film Festival for more than ten years. After a five-year stint as Vice Director at the Munich Film Museum, where he was involved in the reconstruction of Orson Welles’ unfinished films, he switched to filmmaking in 1999. His films include: "Strange Behavior of Moving Pictures"(short, 1978), "Monsieur Truffaut Meets Mr. Hitchcock" (1999), "Never Stop Beginning – Ufa Star Carola Hoehn" (2000), "Film is Truth: Milos Forman" (2000), and "Fassbinder in Hollywood" (2002). He is currently working on a new documentary "Burden of Proof - Orson Welles and the Ballad of Isaac Woodard".

Source: German Films Service & Marketing GmbH