Ludwig Barnay

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Ludwig Barnay; Photography around 1880/90
Portrait of Ludwig Barnay
Supplement to the Darmstädter Tagblatt, No. 26/1886

Ludwig Barnay ( pseudonym for Ludwig Weiß ; born February 11, 1842 in Pest , today in Budapest ; † January 31, 1924 in Hanover ) was a well-known hero actor and later also a theater director .

Life

Ludwig Barnay was a son of the cantor of the synagogue in Pest. At the age of 18 Barnay was able to successfully debut under the name Lacroix in Trautenau ( Riesengebirge ) in 1860 . After a small engagement in his hometown, he was committed to the Burgtheater in Vienna .

In 1862 he became a member of the United Theater Pest-Ofen and had guest appearances at the State Theater in Graz . The following year he began extensive tours, which took him to theaters in Mainz , Prague , Riga and Leipzig for almost five years . From 1868 he found a longer job at the Weimar court theater .

In 1864 he married the teenage singer Marie Kreuzer (1839–1904), daughter of the well-known tenor Heinrich Kreuzer from the Vienna Court Opera. The marriage resulted in three daughters, of which only Charlotte, born in Frankfurt am Main in 1872, later known as "Lolo Barnay", a successful Berlin painter and singer, reached adulthood.

In 1870 Ludwig Barnay was a relatively unknown actor at the Stadttheater in Frankfurt am Main . At that time, he confessed, therefore determined the motto (loosely based on "Qu'est-ce que le tiers état?" By Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès ):

"We are nothing - what we want is everything"

his way of acting. He was unselfishly in the service of the cause as one of many like-minded people.

The interests of employers have been represented by the Deutsche Bühnenverein as an association of all theater directors under the chairmanship of the artistic director of the Royal Drama Botho von Hülsen since 1861 . But there was no association that stood up for workers' rights. That is why he pursued the interests of actors in a targeted manner, and in 1871 the first community of interests for actors, the GDBA, was founded.

In July 1871, Barnay was the founder and later Honorary President of the German Theater Members ' Cooperative , the first interest group for actors. Barnay, the initiator, could refer to a great tradition in his work. Conrad Ekhof and Friedrich Ludwig Schröder's efforts were aimed at this goal: to free the actors from economic hardships, to unite them, to educate them and to strengthen their class consciousness in order to give them social respect and civil recognition.

This idea has never been forgotten since then, and men kept trying to realize it. The hunt for personal success and the addiction to shine as an individual undermined class and community spirit, social principles for which the leading actors of the 19th century, from Neuberin to August Wilhelm Iffland , had fought.

From 1874 to 1876 and further on in 1881 and 1885, Barnay was engaged at the court theater in Meiningen and took part in the successful tours of the Meininger , which during this time a. a. led to Berlin , London and St. Petersburg . On March 5, 1874 he was made an honorary member of the Meininger Court Theater .

In 1883, Ludwig Barnay married the actress Minna , née Arndt (1852–1932), for the second time .

Together with Adolph L'Arronge (actually Aaron, 1838–1908), Barnay founded the German Theater Society on September 29, 1883 in the house of the Friedrich-Wilhelmstädtische Theater in Schumannstrasse 13a in Berlin July 1884 he also ended his position as head of the firm. He was the founder and director of the Berlin theater on Charlottenstrasse in Kreuzberg (1888–94). After working as director of the Berlin theater, Ludwig Barnay lived in Wiesbaden.

Barnay became the secret director and court advisor and headed the Royal Theater in Berlin from 1906 and the court theater in Hanover from 1908 to 1912.

From 1909 Barnay lived in a villa in what was then Corvinusstrasse , which had been completed in 1907 according to plans by the architect Franz Hoffmann . After the resident's lifetime, the street in the Hindenburgviertel was renamed in 1922 after the secret councilor and opera manager, while his former residential building, Ludwig-Barnay-Straße 3, in what is now Hanover's Zoo district, was later listed as a historical monument .

Ludwig Barnay died in Hanover 11 days before his 82nd birthday on January 31, 1924.

Tomb monument

The grave monument of Ludwig Barnay can be found in the Engesohde city cemetery in Hanover , Department 23E , grave number 48 . The memorial is a figure sculpture representing the past, present and future by the sculptor Roland Engelhard and was created in 1926.

roll

Barnay as Mark Antony ; Wood engraving by Adolph Neumann In: Die Gartenlaube , 1878

Works (selection)

  • Memories . Henschel-Verlag, Berlin 1953 (repr. Of the Berlin 1903 edition)
The actor Siegwart Friedmann rightly claimed of this book that it was interesting because no one could have written such a detailed description of Barnay as Barnay himself .

“Lawyers, doctors, painters, architects, bakers, shoemakers and tailors and God knows what for arts and crafts have been meeting in Germany for years and are enjoying the blessings of their association efforts. Why do we actors not want to come to the realization of our class consciousness, why should we not take the opportunity to talk about our next artistic and material interests. "

The quoted article marks the beginning of the history of the "Genossenschaft Deutscher Bühnenangerbeiger" as an association that, in the years of the stronger and more developing labor movement, realized the thoughts and concerns of the fathers of German acting and which over time became more and more social Combat organization was.

Honors and medals

(from the actor catalog from 1906)

as well as other merit crosses and medals for art and science

  • Corvinusstraße in Hanover, which was laid out in 1902, was renamed Ludwig-Barnay-Straße in 1922 , as the opera director lived here ( the original street name was valid again from 1933 to 1945 during the Nazi era ).
  • In Barnay's honor, the former Laubenheimer Platz (1909–1963) in the Berlin artists' colony was renamed Ludwig-Barnay-Platz on November 1, 1963.

literature

Web links

Commons : Ludwig Barnay  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Marie Kreuzer at Operissimo  on the basis of the Great Singer LexiconTemplate: Operissimo / maintenance / use of parameter 2
  2. ↑ The theater director and writer Paul Barnay , who was born in Vienna in 1884, was not his son, as claimed in various sources (e.g. Munzinger), but his nephew.
  3. ^ A b Hugo Thielen: Barnay (eigtl. Weiss), (1) Ludwig , In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 40; online through google books
  4. ↑ Helmut Zimmermann : The “Kleine Bult” became the “Zoo” district , in which: Between Maschsee and Eilenriede … Harenberg, Hanover 1985, ISBN 3-89042-015-X , pp. 60–64; here: p. 63
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Neß : Structural development between Seelhorststrasse, Scharnhorststrasse and Plathnerstrasse , In: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, City of Hanover (DTBD), Part 1, Volume 10.1, ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Braunschweig 1983, ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , pp. 149–152; as well as zoo in the addendum to part 2, volume 10.2: List of monuments according to § 4 ( NDSchG ) (except for architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation ), status: July 1, 1985, City of Hanover , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - publications of the Institute for Monument Preservation, p. 10f.
  6. ↑ Karin van Schwartzenberg (responsible): Graves of honor and graves of important personalities at the Engesohde town cemetery , A3 leaflet with overview sketch, ed. from the City of Hanover, The Lord Mayor, Department of Environment and Urban Greenery, Department of Urban Cemeteries, Department of Administration and Customer Service, Hanover, 2012
  7. ^ Helmut Zimmermann (sd): Ludwig-Barnay-Strasse . In: The street names of the state capital Hanover , p. 164
  8. ↑ Ludwig-Barnay-Platz. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
personal data
SURNAME Barnay, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES White, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Actor and artistic director
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Pest , today in Budapest
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1924
Place of death Hanover