Galina Volchek Explained

Galina Volchek
Birth Name:Galina Berovna Volchek
Birth Date:19 December 1933
Birth Place:Moscow, RSFSR, Soviet Union
Death Place:Moscow, Russia
Native Name Lang:ru
Occupation:Actress, theater director, pedagogue
Yearsactive:1953–2019
Awards:USSR State Prize
People's Artist of the USSR
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" (full cavalier)

Galina Borisovna (Berovna) Volchek (Russian: Гали́на Бори́совна Во́лчек; 19 December 1933 – 26 December 2019) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actress, theater director and pedagogue.[1] [2] People's Artist of the USSR (1989) and Hero of Labour of the Russian Federation (2017).

Biography

Galina Volchek was a daughter of the cameraman and director Boris (Ber) Volchek. After finishing the Moscow Art Theatre School (1955, Karev course) she co-founded the Sovremennik Theatre, together with Igor Kvasha, Oleg Tabakov, Oleg Yefremov and Yevgeny Yevstigneyev. Since 1972 she was the chief director of the theater, and since 1989 its artistic director. Volchek directed over thirty productions. Among them were Russian and world classics, works of contemporary domestic and foreign authors.[1] [2]

She was repeatedly invited to productions in theaters in Germany, Finland, Ireland, the US, Hungary, Poland and other countries. She was engaged many times in theater pedagogy activities abroad.[2]

Volchek was elected a deputy into the State Duma in 1995, where she became a member of the Committee on Culture. In 1999, Volchek left the parliament.[1] [2]

On 26 December 2019, Volchek died in Moscow from pneumonia, one week after her 86th birthday.[3]

Personal life

Galina Volchek said: I had two husbands, several romances and one fallacy.[4] She was married twice:

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
1957Don Quixote Maritornes
1963Greshnyy angel Afrodita
1966The Bridge Is Built Young Girl
1966Children of Don Quixote
1966Beware of the Car Customer
1968Parviyat kurier Tyotya Nyusa
1969Svoy
1970King Lear Regan
1970Moya sudba
1976Klop 75 ili Mayakovskiy smeyotsya madam Renesans / aktrisa-khalturshchitsa
1976The Little Mermaid Inn Hostess - Witch
1977About the Little Red Riding Hood Mother Wolf TV movie
1979Autumn Marathon Varvara Nikitichna
1983Unikum
1985Tevye the Dairyman Golda TV Mini-Series

Honors and awards

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Волчек Галина Борисовна . Кто есть кто в культуре [Who is who in culture] . Яндекс.Словари [yandex.ru] . 2015-10-11 . Кто есть кто в культуре . https://archive.today/20240526133242/https://www.webcitation.org/6Eim6Zsf0?url=http://slovari.yandex.ru/~%D0%BA%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B8/%D0%9A%D1%82%D0%BE%20%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8C%20%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%BE%20%D0%B2%20%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%82%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B5/%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BA%20%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD%25D . 2024-05-26 . Russian . dead .
  2. Web site: Биография. Волчек Галина Борисовна [Biography] ]. kino-teatr.ru . 2015-10-11 . Russian.
  3. Web site: Галина Волчек скончалась на 87-м году жизни . 26 December 2019 . IZ . 27 December 2019 .
  4. Web site: Бабье лето | Женские истории . 2013-04-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130914023604/http://babie-leto.ru/stories/xPages/entry.295.html . 2013-09-14 . dead .
  5. [:ru:s:Указ Президента РФ от 15.04.1996 № 556|Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 15 апреля 1996 г. № 556 «О награждении орденом «За заслуги перед Отечеством» III степени Волчек Г. Б.»]
  6. [:ru:s:Указ Президента РФ от 19.12.2003 № 1494|Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 19 декабря 2003 г. № 1494 «О награждении орденом „За заслуги перед Отечеством“ II степени Волчек Г. Б.»]
  7. [:ru:s:Указ Президента РФ от 17.12.2008 № 1789|Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 17 декабря 2008 г. № 1789 «О награждении орденом «За заслуги перед Отечеством» I степени Волчек Г. Б.»]
  8. [:ru:s:Указ Президента РФ от 21.12.2013 № 929|Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 21 декабря 2013 г. № 929 «О награждении государственными наградами Российской Федерации»]
  9. http://kremlin.ru/acts/bank/41887 Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 25 апреля 2017 года № 182 «О присвоении звания Героя Труда Российской Федерации