Gennadi Vengerov

Gennadi Aronovich Vengerov (; 27 August 1959 – 22 April 2015) was a Soviet, Russian and German film and theatre actor, narrator and voice-over artist. Biography Vengerov was born on 27 August 1959 in Vitebsk (Belarus). After graduating from the Technical School for Architecture and Construction and a short-term employment as a construction engineer, he started his creative career as an announcer of the Vitebsk Regional Radio. Не performed at the People's Theatre in Vitebsk. In 1980 he was invited to be an actor at the professional scene to the Yakub Kolas Belarus National Academic Drama Theatre. Following his military service in the Soviet Army in 1983 he entered the School-Studio (Institute of Higher Education) at the Moscow Art Theatre for the course by professors Viktor Monyukov and Vladimir Bogomolov. In 1986, on his 4th course year, together with his course mate Mikhail Yefremov they established Sovremennik 2 theatre. In 1989 he was invited to the troop of Moscow Academic Mayakovsky Theatre. Gennadi Vengerov continued his career in Germany in 1990 as an announcer of Deutsche Welle Radio and an actor of Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus. From 1995 to 2000 he has been an actor of Bochum Theatre.