Margit Barnay
Margit Barnay (born April 5, 1896 as Margot Tana Rosenstock in Berlin , † January 11, 1974 in Berlin-Zehlendorf ) was a German silent film actress .
Live and act
The granddaughter of the theater actor Ludwig Barnay, as well as the daughter of a lawyer and a singer and painter, initially followed her mother's path and trained in music and painting. At the end of the war in 1918, the film director Siegfried Dessauer persuaded her to change her job and brought Margit Barnay in front of the camera for the first time in the female lead in his production Kinder der Liebe . Margit Barnay worked with leading directors of the Weimar Republic from an early stage , above all FW Murnau , who gave her leading roles in Satanas and The Boy in Blue .
Until shortly before the end of the silent film era, some well-known directors of the 1920s engaged the dark-haired artist, including Urban Gad , Otz Tollen , James Bauer , Jaap Speyer , Rudolf Walther-Fein , Otto Rippert , Johannes Guter , Reinhold Schünzel and Leo Mittler . Margit Barnay shot film on film in just eight years, at peak times up to a dozen films in just one year. However, none of these productions has above-average significance in terms of film history. After around 45 films, Margit Barnay ended her screen career in 1927 as suddenly as she had started it.
After the Second World War, Margit Barnay worked as an editor at the Berlin broadcaster RIAS .
Private
Margit Barnay married the architect and later government builder Hans Schmidt-Werden in October 1918 . From this marriage the future actress Sybil Werden emerged in 1924 , whereupon Margit Barnay interrupted the film acting until 1926.
In the Third Reich , Margit Barnay, protected by her marriage to the “Aryan” Schmidt-Werden, was excluded from any artistic activity for racial reasons - according to National Socialist racial legislation she was considered a “three-quarter Jew” and a “first degree hybrid” , She was denied admission to the Reichsfilmkammer.
Barnay's temporary (1952 to 1962) son-in-law was the actor Harald Juhnke .
Filmography (selection)
- 1919: children of love
- 1919: Satanas
- 1919: The boy in blue
- 1919: Samson, his own murderer
- 1920: Uriel Acosta
- 1920: I - am - you ...
- 1920: The Medici Shrine
- 1920: The skull of the pharaoh's daughter
- 1920: desire
- 1921: The tigress
- 1921: The dormant volcano
- 1921: The stranger from Elstergasse
- 1921: Brigand's revenge
- 1922: Don Juan - Vera Films
- 1922: The Woman King
- 1922: Cesare Ubaldi's romance novel
- 1922: A day is coming
- 1922: The man without a job
- 1922: Just one night
- 1922: Severin Hoyer's journey
- 1922: bigamy
- 1922: The beautiful girl
- 1923: "Said". A people in chains
- 1923: I had a comrade
- 1924: sins of thought
- 1924: Debit and credit
- 1924: Crazy existences
- 1926: Back home there is a reunion
- 1926: The victory of the youth
- 1927: Two under heaven time
- 1927: Benno stand-up collar
literature
- CineGraph - Lexicon for German-Language Films, Delivery 48, Hamburg 2009
Web links
- Margit Barnay in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Margit Barnay at filmportal.de
- Margit Barnay on steffi-line.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Barnay, Margit |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rosenstock, Margit Jana (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German silent film actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 5, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin , German Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 11, 1974 |
| Place of death | Berlin-Zehlendorf |