Paul Barnay

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Paul Barnay (* 27. March 1884 in Vienna , † 13 June 1960 ) was an Austrian actor , director and artistic director at the theater .

Life

Barnay came from an old theater family. He received his artistic training from his uncle Ludwig Barnay , and further studies brought him to the Academy for Dramatic Art.

His career began in 1903 at the Kolberger Stadttheater with the role of a doge in William Shakespeare's Othello . Other early Barnay roles were Franz Moor , Hamlet , Mephisto , Iago , Richard III. , Gessler and Narcissus on stages in Görlitz , Vienna (Intimate Theater), Stralsund Theater and Neustrelitz . Even before the First World War , Paul Barnay was able to direct at the City Theater of Danzig . The theater stations in Düsseldorf , Bremen and Vienna again followed. In Katowice , Barnay was both director and senior director at the city theater. In 1921 Barnay moved to Breslau to work as the artistic director of the United Theater . There he was surprised by the National Socialists' seizure of power in 1933 .

Removed from office as a Jew , Paul Barnay returned to Vienna. From 1934 to 1936 he was co-director of the Raimund Theater, then director of the city theater in Reichenberg, Czechoslovakia, for almost two years . As a result of the annexation of Austria and the annexation of the Sudeten German territories, Paul Barnay fled to Hungary in 1939 , where he worked as an editor for the Palladis publishing house. There he was arrested at the end of the Second World War by the Arrow Cross government Ferenc Szálasis and assigned to do forced labor (digging work). In 1945 Barnay returned home to Vienna and continued his artistic work. From 1948 to 1952 he was director of the Volkstheater .

Barnay was very rarely in front of film cameras; only two film appearances are documented. As an author, he wrote the stage drama Der Narr der SS in 1946. My experience for the theater reports .

Filmography

literature

  • Wilhelm Kosch : German Theater Lexicon. Biographical and Bibliographical Handbook, Volume 1, Berlin; New York 1953, p. 75.
  • Herbert A. Frenzel , Hans Joachim Moser (ed.): Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Drama, opera, film, radio. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. De Gruyter, Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518 , p. 29.
  • Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 51.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ludwig Barnay was not - as claimed in some places (e.g. Munzinger) - the father of Paul Barnay, but of the painter and singer Charlotte ("Lolo") Barnay (1872 until after 1943), who remained his only child. As is clear from Paul Barnay's memoir "Mein Leben, 1884–1953" http://access.cjh.org/home.php?type=extid&term=1289755#1 , Paul Barnay was the son of Ludwig Barnay's sister Ilka Barnay (1853 –1932) and her husband, the Hungarian doctor Dr. Horovitz. Paul Barnay tells in detail about "Uncle Ludwig" in the second chapter of his memoir.
  2. ^ René Geoffroy: Hungary as a place of refuge and place of work for German-speaking emigrants (1933–1938 / 39) . Frankfurt am Main: Lang 2001, p. 110
personal data
SURNAME Barnay, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor, theater director and director
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 1960
Place of death Vienna