Gennadi Vengerov

Gennadi Vengerov was a Belarusian actor and announcer who worked in radio, theater, film, and television. Born in Vitebsk, he began as an announcer for Vitebsk Regional Radio and performed at the city's People's Theater before joining the Yakub Kolas Belarus National Academic Drama Theater in 1980. After army service he studied at the School-Studio of the Moscow Art Theater, and in 1986 he helped found the Sovremennik-2 Theater. He later acted at the Mayakovsky Theater. In 1990 he moved to Germany, where he announced for Deutsche Welle and acted at the Dusseldorf and Bochum drama theaters. From 2004 he appeared in Russian cinema and television and recorded voice work, becoming a brand voice for RSN and Euronews. He narrated the 2009 REN TV show Men's Stories with Gennadi Vengerov. Russian viewers knew him for Vulkan in The Fighter and Major Volkov in Hour of Volkov, while German audiences recognized him as Viktor Strelnikov in Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten.