Obituary. Ion Ungureanu

Chisinau, 30 January /MOLDPRES/ - The news on the passing away of master Ion Ungureanu distressed us by the loss of a MAN who dedicated his life to the national ideals, fight for the identity and strengthening the national values, whose work will always remain in the cultural heritage of Moldova.   

Master Ion Ungureanu devoted all his life to the country’s cultural development by the activity of stage manager, theatre and film actor, writer, as well as through the administrative and political activity as MP and the first culture minister of Moldova (1990-1994).  

In his capacity of minister, he created theatres, set the monument to the Capitoline Wolf in the square of the National History Museum and re-set the monument to Stefan cel Mare to his initial place. He managed, despite the existential conditions, to create true values in theatre as stage manager, as actor in movies.   

The lessons of life, history and culture of the master, when reading the country’s Declaration of Independence on the Chisinau-based Great National Assembly Square, holding dialogues with his admirers, training disciples or outlining the trends of development of the national culture and the country, will remain in our memory. The parts in movies and plays, the kindness and happiness master Ungureanu managed to arouse in our soles are alive.     

We owe our respect to the one who was Ion Ungureanu and we feel, along will all beauty lovers, the huge void the titan of the national theatre leaves behind him.  God creates through people. He gave this nation Ion Ungureanu, who lighted our way through the historical labyrinth of this land.     

We express our sympathy to the family and all close people, who admired and valued him as a man and exceptional personality of the national culture.  

May he rest in peace.

Igor Dodon, President of Moldova 

Andrian Candu, Parliament Speaker

Pavel Filip, Prime Minister

Monica Babuc, Culture Minister

Gheorghe Duca, President of the Academy of Sciences

Ion Druta, writer, dramatist, academician

Eugen Doga, composter, academician

Vladimir Curbet, honorary president of the Joc band

Mihai Cimpoi, literary critic, academician

Sandu Grecu, president of the Theatrical Union

Sergiu Prodan, president of the Cinema Men Union

Nicolae Dabija, academician, writer, literary historian academician,

Tudor Zbirnea, director general of the National Art Museum of Moldova  

The farewell ceremony for departed Ion Ungureanu will take place on 31 January; at 2:00 am, the coffin will be placed in the Teodora de la Sihla church of Chisinau; at 10 am, it will be brought for paying tributes to the Nicolae Sulac National Palace, after which the funeral cortege will go to the Central Cemetery of the Armeneasca Street, where he will be buried.      

(Editor M. Jantovan)