Ludwig Barnay

Ludwig Barnay (pseudonym for Louis White, born February 11, 1842 in Pest, Budapest today, † January 31, 1924 in Hannover) was a famous hero actor and later theater director.

Life

Ludwig Barnay was a son of the cantor of the synagogue of plague. With 18 years Barnay was in 1870 under the name Lacroix successful debut in Trautenau (Giant Mountains). After a small commitment in his hometown, he was engaged at the Burgtheater in Vienna.

In 1862 he became a member of the United Theater plague furnace and made ​​guest appearances at the State Theatre in Graz. The following year, began extensive touring, which led him for nearly five years at the theater in Mainz, Prague, Riga and Leipzig. From 1868, he took a longer tenure at the court theater in Weimar.

In 1864 he married the youthful singer Marie Kreuzer ( 1839-1904 ), daughter of the famous tenor Heinrich Kreuzer ( 1819-1900 ) of the Vienna Court Opera. The marriage produced three daughters were born, of which only born in Frankfurt am Main in 1872 Charlotte, later known as " Lolo Barnay " a successful Berlin painter and singer who reached adulthood.

Ludwig Barnay was still a relatively unknown actor at the City Theater in Frankfurt am Main in 1870. At that time, he confessed, so certain the motto ( free after Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès of "Qu'est- ce que le tiers état ​​?"):

His action. He was unselfish in the service of the cause as one among many like- minded people.

Barnay was in July 1871, the founder and later honorary president of the cooperative German Stage Workers, the first interest group for actors. Barnay, the initiator could rely in his work on a great tradition. Conrad Ekhofs and Friedrich Ludwig Schröder's efforts were this goal: the actors of economic distress to free, to unite, to form and strengthen their class consciousness, to give them social respect and civic recognition.

This idea has since been forgotten never again, again and again, there were men who were trying to make it a reality. The Hunt for personal achievement and the addiction to shine as an individual, undermined able mind and a sense of community, social principles, for which the leading actor of the 19th century, had fought by the Neuberin up to August Wilhelm Iffland.

The interests of the employers represented since 1861 the German Theatre Association, the. Than union of all theater directors, chaired by the director of the Royal spectacles Botho of sleeves However, there was no association that would have occurred for the rights of workers. Therefore he pursued purposefully to represent the interests of the actors, and so it came in 1870 to the first community of interest of the actor who GDBA.

From 1874 to 1876, and continued in 1881 and 1885 Barnay was engaged at the court theater at Meiningen and participated in the successful concert tours of the Meiningen, among other things at this time led to Berlin, London and St. Petersburg. On March 5, 1874 he was made ​​an honorary member of the Meiningen Court Theatre.

Together with Adolph L' Arronge (actually Aaron, 1838-1908 ) founded Barnay on September 29, 1883, law firm Deutsches Theater at the home of Friedrich- Wilhelm Theatre in the Schumann Straße 13 in Berlin and stayed there until 24 June 1884 at 1 July. 1884 he finished his role as head of the firm. He was the founder and director of the Berlin theater in the Charlotte area of ​​Kreuzberg ( 1888-94 ). After serving as director of the Berlin theater Ludwig Barnay lived in Wiesbaden.

Barnay was Privy Councilor and artistic director since 1906 and headed the Royal Theatre in Berlin and from 1908 to 1912 the Court Theatre in Hanover. He died 11 days before his 82nd birthday on January 31, 1924. His tomb is located at the city cemetery Engesohde in Hanover. The grave monument was created in 1926 by sculptor Roland Engelhard.

Roll

• Tell ( William Tell, Friedrich Schiller)
• Essex ( Earl of Essex, Heinrich Laube )
• Othello ( Othello, William Shakespeare)
• Marc Antony ( Antony and Cleopatra, William Shakespeare)
• Lear ( King Lear, William Shakespeare)
• Hamlet ( Hamlet, William Shakespeare)
• Kean ( Kean or passion and genius, Alexandre Dumas )
• Wallenstein ( Wallenstein, Friedrich Schiller)
• Holofernes ( Judith and Holofernes, Johann Nestroy )
• Graf Waldemar ( Gustav Freytag )
• Egmont ( Egmont, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe )

Works (selection)

• Memories. Henschel Verlag, Berlin, 1953 ( Repr d Ed Berlin 1903)

" Lawyers, doctors, painters, architects, bakers, shoemakers and tailors and God knows what kind of arts and trades days in Germany for years and enjoy the blessing of their association endeavors. Why do we want an actor because not come to the knowledge of our able -consciousness, why should not take the opportunity to speak out even once about our next artistic and material interests us. "

The cited article marks the beginning of the history of the " cooperative German Stage Workers " as an association which the thoughts and concerns of the fathers of the German dramatic art realized in the years of stronger and stronger emerging labor movement and the passage of time more and more social to a fighting organization was.

To Barnays honor of the former Laubenheimer Place (1909-1963) in the artist colony Berlin was renamed on 1 November 1963 in Ludwig Barnay Square.

Awards and medals

(from the actresses catalog of 1906)

• Red Eagle Order IV class
• Prussian Order of the Crown IV class
• Grand Ducal Hessian Merit Philip the Magnanimous, First Class
• Knight's Cross of the Württemberg Friedrich Order of Class I.
• House Order of the White Falcon Knight's Cross
• Ducal Saxe- Ernestine House Order II and I. Class 1908
• House Order of Albert the Bear, First Class
• St. Stanislaus II and I. Class
• Wasaorden
• Honorary member of the court theater at Meiningen, 1874
• Honorary member of the city and the Thalia Theatre in Hamburg
• Honorary member and champion of free German Hochstift to Frankfurt am Main
• Honorary President of the Cooperative German Stage Workers whose founder 1883/85

And other Orders of Merit and Medals of Arts and Sciences

• The 1902 scale Corvinusstraße in Hanover in 1922 renamed the Ludwig- Barnay - road, as the opera's general director lived here ( in the time of National Socialism was 1933-1945 again the original street name).