Steffen Möller
Steffen Möller ( born January 22, 1969 in Wolf Hagen ) is a German actor, comedian and author who has achieved in Poland at the beginning of the 21st century a lot of popularity.
Life
Steffen Möller was born the son of Christian Moeller, a now- retired professor of Protestant theology at the University of Heidelberg, and his wife Sigrun, a religious teacher, in Wolf near Kassel. He has two younger brothers.
Steffen Möller grew up in Wuppertal on where he got his diploma at the grammar Wilhelm Dörpfeld Gymnasium, where he was active in the school cabaret. After graduation, he did his community service. He then went to the Free University of Berlin to study theology and philosophy, and also finished Italian. For a Polish language course he went to Krakow. After graduating from the University of Berlin in 1994, he moved permanently to Poland. There he was at first German teacher at the Warsaw School Królowa Jadwiga and later professor of German at the University of Warsaw.
In the early years in Poland, he took among other things, several cassettes for German textbooks. In 2002, he reached in Krakow at the national cabaret competition Paka second place, what should be the beginning of his future career in Poland.
Steffen Möller played from 2002 to 2007 in the popular television series M jak miłość ("L as Love "), a German potato farmer named Stefan Müller, 2005 hosted the first season of Załóż oneself, the Polish version of Wetten, dass. and was a regular guest of the show in 2008 deposed Europe since się Lubic ( "Europe will like it" ).
Since then, Möller has occurred only sporadically on Polish television. Since 2009, center of his life in Berlin, by his own admission he commutes since between two capitals.
For his services to the German - Polish relations, he was awarded on June 3, 2005 with the Federal Cross of Merit. In October 2006, in Poland, his first book was published under the title Polska da się Lubic ( "Poland can be like" ), 2008 followed by the German adaptation under the title Viva Polonia - As a German immigrant workers in Poland. Was published in 2009 Vita Classica - Confessions of an Anders hearing in which Möller outs himself as a fan of classical music.
Viva Polonia
Möller, released in February 2008 Book Viva Polonia - As German guest workers in Poland is self-deprecating about his experiences in the country and with the mentality of Poland, since he there found his adopted home fourteen years ago. The book is the greatly revised and expanded version of Polska da się Lubic. A German version of the book was not originally planned, because Möller assumed no interest of the Germans. Among the 50 key words, which he describes in the book are about superstitions, conspiracy theories, Radio Maria and taboos. In Chapter superstition, the reader is given a list of 17 things that have to be observed at a wedding. In PKP ( Polskie Koleje Państwowe ) Moeller writes about his positive experience with the Polish railway, which stood quite at odds with the views of Poland. At the beginning of the book Möller describes his first encounter with the Polish grammar in Krakow. So he suspected behind " Ludwiga van Beethovena " the pseudonym of a feminist and under the monument inscription " Adamowi Mickiewiczowi Narod " a cousin of the poet or a mayor of Krakow.
Despite the different reviews in Germany, the book kept for nearly a year in the Spiegel bestseller list and has so far sold over 300,000 times. While most reviewers especially emphasize the entertainment value and contribution to international understanding, criticizing the other hand, the superficial facts representation and use of stereotypes. Möller defended himself against the cliché accusation by accusing his critics to throw " clichés " with " generalizations " in a pot. Why one should, after nearly twenty years of poles stay not generalize his experience? " Clichés " he would only if he would take over certain phrases uncritically. With the stage show Viva Polonia - As German guest workers in Poland Steffen Möller has occurred over 300 times in Germany and Austria since March 2008.
Honors
- 2004: "Tele camera " in the category " Entertainment " (with Kevin Alston )
- 2004: " Victor " in the category " Discovery of the Year " (along with Anita Werner)
- 2005: Order of Merit
- 2008: Bürgerpreis German unit
- 2008: DIALOG Price
- 2009: " Bene Merito " (Poland )
- 2013: International Bridge Price
Filmography
- 2000-2007 M jak miłość ("L as Love" )
- 2000 Słoneczna włócznia ( " The sun spear " )
- Kasia i Tomek 2002 ( " Kasia and Tomek " )
- 2003 Koniec wojny ( " war " )
- 2003-2008 Europe since się Lubic ( "Europe will like" )
- 2005 Załóż oneself ( "I bet the " )
- 2010 Poland for beginners ( road movie, directed by Katrin Rothe, with Kurt Kroemer )
- 2012 expedition to the poles (Live Show bonus material ), Steffen Möller
Works
- Literature by and about Steffen Möller in the catalog that German national library
- Polska da się Lubic, Warsaw 2006, ISBN 83-245-1062-1.
- Niemiecki ze Steffenem, with Mariusz Kisielewski and Aneta Głowska, Warsaw 2007, ISBN 978-83-7476-147-5.
- Viva Polonia: as a German guest workers in Poland, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-502-15155-5.
- Viva Polonia. Audiobook. Read by Steffen Möller. Argon Verlag, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-86610-558-4.
- Viva Polonia: Live in Berlin, Argon Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86610-766-3.
- Vita Classica: Confessions of a different hearing, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-502-15168-5.
- Vita Classica. Audiobook. Read by Steffen Möller. Argon Verlag, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-86610-844-8.
- Expedition to the Poles: A trip to the Berlin- Warszawa Express, Malik Verlag, ISBN 978-3-89029-399-8.
- Expedition to the Poles: A trip to the Berlin- Warszawa -Express ( Audio CD) Osterwoldaudio Verlag, ISBN 978-3-86952-113-8.