Vitaly Jakowlewitsch Wulf

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Witali Wulf (2008)

Vitaly Jakowlewitsch Wulf ( Russian Виталий Яковлевич Вульф , born May 23, 1930 in Baku , Azerbaijani SSR , † March 13, 2011 in Moscow ) was a Russian cultural historian , screenwriter , translator and TV presenter.

Wulf's father was a lawyer from Lausanne who moved to Baku via Moscow in 1919 . Wulf graduated from Lomonosov University in Moscow with a law degree . From 1967 to 1997 he worked, first as a research assistant and later as a professor, at the Institute for the International Labor Movement of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (today the Institute for Comparative Politics and Labor Movement), and since 1992 at the Institute for Comparative Political Science. With a working group he researched the awareness of young people in the western world and their culture. Since 1967 he has published scientific and journalistic works on the hippie movement . In 1989 he received his doctorate with the topic: "The American Theater of the 1970s and the Socio-Political Reality" .

In 1992 Wulf went to the United States , where he taught for two years in the theater faculty at New York University . From 2001 to 2003 he was editor of the Russian edition of the fashion magazine L'Officiel with Serafima Chebotar . Wulf translated about 40 plays, including those by Tennessee Williams , Somerset Maugham , and Edward Albee into Russian. From 2005 until his death, he published seven biographies of outstanding personalities, including Charlie Chaplin , Ernest Hemingway and Theodore Roosevelt . In 2007 Witali Wulf became editor-in-chief of Radio Kultur at Rossija 1 (RTR).

Wulf was buried in the Trojekurowo cemetery.

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SURNAME Wulf, Vitaly Jakowlewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Вульф, Виталий Яковлевич (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian cultural historian, screenwriter, translator and TV presenter
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Baku , Azerbaijani SSR
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 2011
Place of death Moscow