Magdalena Möller

Magdalena-Adelina Radulescu was born on 21 November 1944 in Bucharest, Romania. She grew up bilingually, German-Romanian, finishing the "German High School Bucharest" with a High School Certificat Grade A (Abitur) in 1962. Because it was very difficult to enter the Romanian "Theater and Film Institute" (IATC) Bucharest, which had a very strong restriction of sometimes only 3 to maximum 15 places for actresses per year, she became an announcer and dancer for two years for the Artistic Ensemble "Doina" of the Army, while waiting to get a place, despite the fact that she took all exams. Finally, 1964 she started to study "Acting" at IATC Bucharest, graduating in 1968. Having achieved good marks, she was asked to become an actress with the famous "Theatre for Youth" ("Teatrul Tineretului") Piatra Neamt, the best avant-garde theatre of the country, and the best scene to start with. There she worked with very famous, internationally renowned stage directors as: Andrei Serban in "The Good Man of Sechuan" by Bertholt Brecht and as Constance Neville in "She Stoops to conquer" by Oliver Goldsmith, with Radu Penciulescu in "Woyzeck" by Georg Buechner, with Dinu Cernescu as Branguien in "Tristan and Isolde" by Jean de Beer, with Aurel Manea as Octavia in "Britannicus" by Jean Racine, with Gabriel Negri as Corina in "The Play as of Vacation" by Mihail Sebastian"... In 1970, being pursued, harassed and menaced by the Romanian "Securitate", who tried even to blackmail her, to work for them..., just because her boyfriend was a "German engineer from West Germany", who worked in Romania..., she decided to marry and follow him to Germany, becoming Magdalena Möller. Unfortunately, in spite of her German education, she was considered by the German government, according to their law based on "blood" ("jus sanguis"), only a "foreigner" ("Ausländer"), being set "outside" the German society, "loosing" by this all her "qualification" and "qualities", i.e. her studies, her profession, the four years she worked in Romania, everything... If she would have married a "class mate", colleague or "friend" of only "some" German descent from an East European country, considered "returning home", an "Aussiedler", or being "kicked-out" from former German Reich's land possessions, a "Vertriebener", she would have been not only "wellcomed", but privileged and raised in all, no matter of her ancestry, made by law, a "native" German, getting all his rights..., but NOT as "only a wife", of "only" a genuine German, from... Federal Germany! This law is fully "discriminating" not only her, but her entire family, and any German, marrying a "foreigner"..., as this law is treating them as "second" class..., in their own country..., affecting all and everything... Thus it came, that she could work in her profession only in 1973, when another very famous Romanian stage director, Liviu Ciulei, took her to play in "Macbett" by Eugen Ionescu at the very famous "Münchner Kammerspiele". In 1987 she was director's assistant in "He had two Eyes..." by Dario Fo under the direction of Grigore Gonta for the "Konzertdirektion Landgraf", a touring theatre. This is a very sad life story, and the proof, that "succes" and a "carrier" are many times determined by completely other things, than studies, certificates, experience, intelligence, knowledge, talent and other qualities... Magdalena Moeller speaks fluently English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, of course Romanian and some Russian and Turkish, understanding Portuguese and other Slavic languages, belonging to the three main Indo-Germanic languages groups, Romanic, Germanic and Slavic.