Vitaliy Wolf: biography, creativity and personal life

The name of Vitaly Wolfe from the Russian viewer is associated with the program "My Silver Ball", which exists since 1994. The presenter was interesting and captivating about the fate of famous people from TV screens, while his private life was outside the audience. His manner of telling the story was unrepeatable: leisurely, exciting, with some special charm. A critic, an actor, a theater critic and an art critic in one person, he easily kept the attention of a multimillion audience.

Years young

Vitaly Vulf was born on May 23, 1930 in the city of Baku in the family of the famous lawyer Yakov Sergeevich. Mother - Elena Lvovna was a teacher of the Russian language. The atmosphere of love and understanding reigned in the family, and the house was always glad to have a lot of friends' friends. After graduating from high school, a young man who dreamed of GITIS, at the insistence of his parents, entered the Moscow State University. Lomonosov, to the Faculty of Law. Due to Jewish origin, the young man did not succeed in finding a job in the specialty after graduating from the university. Passing the exams "excellent", Vitaly entered the postgraduate course four times , but for the above reason he was not accepted. Wulf became a post-graduate student in 1957 and began work in the bar, and 4 years later defended his thesis for the degree of candidate of legal sciences.

Life is theater

The life path of Vitali Wulf was determined by his natural love for the theater, which he met at the age of seven. Almost every day he attended theater performances. Mayakovsky, them. Vakhtangov, Moscow Art Theater, Maly Theater. This was helped by his aunt, who, during the student days, expelled money from her parents to attend theatrical productions. Vitaly Yakovlevich was on friendly terms with many theatrical figures, wrote a large number of articles and books about them and about the theater itself. Also this talented person in co-authorship with Alexander Chebotarev was engaged in translation of plays, which from under his pen came out about 40 pieces. Many of the works in his translation are put on the stages of famous Moscow theaters.

Researcher with 30 years experience

The years 1967-1997 were marked by the work of Vitaly Wulff as a research fellow at the Institute of the International Labor Movement of the USSR Academy of Sciences, where he began to professionally engage in American theater and successfully defended the thesis devoted to this topic, achieving the degree of Doctor of Historical Sciences. A long period also led a group to study the youth consciousness in the West. In 1967, his scientific and journalistic work dedicated to the hippy movement was published. In the 70s he was actively published in the press, in the 80s - the readership saw his books "Idols, Stars, People", "Stars of Difficult Destiny", "From Broadway A Little to the Side", "Theatrical Rain".

In 1992, Vitali Woolf, whose biography is closely related to art, left for two years in the United States, where he studied the teaching of theatrical art at the walls of New York University. Having the opportunity to stay in America, Wulf returned to Moscow, because he could not imagine life without the Moscow theaters and his beloved friends.

Vitaliy Wolf: personal life

The public, who watched with pleasure "The Silver Ball", worried not only the fate of his heroes. Curiosity was caused directly by Vitaly Wolf, personal life, wife, children. Were they? And who went hand in hand with this talented theatrical all these years? In life, Vitali Wolf had only one official marriage, committed by youth and did not last long. He had no children.

"Silver Ball" by Vitali Wolf

Closed for the public, Vitaliy Wolf was closely friends with Oleg Efremov, Svetlana Nemoliaeva, Alexander Lazarev, Nikolai Tsiskaridze, Alexander Chebotar, Vlad Listev and his wife Albina. It was Vlad Listyev who invited Vitaly Wolf in 1994 to the television company "VID" as the host of the television program "The Silver Ball" and its author in combination. Over the years, the program has changed the place of exiting (from the "First Channel" migrated to the TV channel "Russia"), and the name changed in the new edition as "My Silver Ball". In total, more than 200 programs were broadcast by Wolfe, the characters of which were actors of cinema and theater, famous writers and prominent political figures, among them Valentina Serova, Angelina Stepanova, Marina Ladynina, Tatyana Doronina, Oleg Efremov, Alexander Fadeyev, Marina Tsvetaeva, Alla Tarasova. With many of his characters, Wulf was acquainted, friendly, and very cherished by it. In 2007, Vital Vitaly Yakovlevich headed the radio channel "Culture" at the VGTRK.

With dignity I carried my cross ...

In his life, Wulf, who possessed impeccable taste and wore beautiful elegant clothes, was completely impractical, never chased money, had a two-room apartment in Moscow and an inexpensive Opel. The main wealth for him were manuscripts, rare documents, books and paintings. This encyclopedic educated person always knew how to look good, had the courage to live, keep his back and not whine, never complained and carried his cross with dignity and humility. Vitaliy Vulf appreciated the same qualities in people. He had no wife, and the economy was helped by two women: one was cleaning, the other was preparing dinner for him.

In 2002, Vitali Wolf learned about his illness: prostate cancer. He suffered 15 operations, persistently suffered intolerable pain, the last year of life was almost entirely spent in the hospital, leaving the room only at rare moments of recording the telecast. There was no Vitaly Wolf on March 13, 2011. The ashes of the deceased were buried at the Troekurov cemetery.

It is necessary to work constantly ...

His work was duly appreciated during his lifetime: Vitaly Yakovlevich was the laureate of various competitions, he has many awards on his account, among them the Order of Merit for the Fatherland. When Wulf was asked what he was doing at the difficult moments of his life, Vitaly Yakovlevich answered: "I'm working. It's just necessary to constantly engage in any business. " His amazing performance was not only a feature of this strong-willed person, but also part of his soul.