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Flemming Møldrup: Jeg har skammet mig over at være på børnehjem

June 20, 2025

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When Flemming Møldrup—the host of Danish radio’s Madmagasinet—sat down to write his memoir Min Far, he realized something he had carried for decades: shame about growing up in a children’s home. “I’ve been ashamed of being at a children’s home,” he says. “I’ve been ashamed right until I wrote it in the book.” That admission opens a conversation about a childhood shaped by absence, displacement, and the quiet rescue offered by a handful of adults who had time to care.

A father who came and went

Møldrup’s father was an Israeli businessman who lived abroad. His parents separated when he was an infant, and for years he had no contact with his father at all. Then, when Møldrup was six or seven, his mother pointed to a man on the street and said, “That’s your father.” They had coffee and french fries; the man left again. That meeting, he says, “got a lot out of the government”—it unsettled a child who already had no stable anchor.

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What you'll learn

  • 1 (00:00) **Podcast Intro & Flemming’s Public Persona** - Host Morten and Flemming discuss the podcast format as a way to meet people, and Flemming reflects on being recognized in public.
  • 2 (03:17) **Shared Background: Absent Fathers** - Morten reveals his own father was absent from infancy, creating a parallel with Flemming’s story.
  • 3 (03:31) **Flemming’s Childhood: Sent to a Children’s Home** - Flemming explains he was placed in a children’s home after a chaotic early life with his mother.
  • 4 (05:46) **Identity and the Israeli Father** - Flemming describes becoming obsessed with his Israeli father and Jewish identity after their meeting.
  • 5 (07:25) **Confronting a Conflicting Narrative** - At a new school with Arab children, Flemming’s heroic view of Israel was challenged.
  • 6 (09:14) **The Two-Culture Child Mechanism** - Flemming articulates the psychological need for bicultural children to be presented with both cultures.
  • 7 (10:13) **Reconnecting with His Father** - Flemming recounts the push-pull relationship with his father over the years.

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Show Notes

Flemming Møldrup voksede op uden sin far og med et børnehjem som base. Men også med voksne der bar ham, når han havde allermest brug for det. 

I denne episode taler Morten og Flemming om at vokse op uden en faderfigur. Det kender de begge nemlig til. 
De taler om skam, savn, og hvordan man lærer at stå på egne ben - og om hvorfor det nogle gange er helt tilfældige mennesker, der ender med at gøre den helt store forskel. 

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