Axel Fischer studied media, German literature and social anthropology. After being employed in the fields of marketing, public relation and culture management, he became a research fellow at the universities of Wuppertal und then Marburg (Germany).As a member of the International Research and Documentation Centre for War Crimes Trials (ICWC, Marburg) he was engaged in the field of Transitional Justice and Media and worked on a research project about the U.S.-American film project on the Nuremberg Trial. Since October 2018, he is a research associate at the Memorium Nuremberg Trials.