Ludwig Barnay, born Ludwig Weiß (1842–1924) was a German actor, born at Pest

Pest (city)

Pest is the eastern, mostly flat part of Budapest, Hungary, comprising about two thirds of the city's territory. It is divided from Buda, the other part of Budapest, by the Danube River. Among its most notable parts are the Inner City, including the Hungarian Parliament, Heroes' Square and...

. He made his debut in 1860 at Trutenau

Trutnov

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 and appeared in Pest the following year, after which he had engagements of varying length in Graz

Graz

The more recent population figures do not give the whole picture as only people with principal residence status are counted and people with secondary residence status are not. Most of the people with secondary residence status in Graz are students...

, Mainz

Mainz

Mainz under the Holy Roman Empire, and previously was a Roman fort city which commanded the west bank of the Rhine and formed part of the northernmost frontier of the Roman Empire...

, Vienna

Vienna

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, Prague

Prague

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, Riga

Riga

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, Leipzig

Leipzig

Leipzig Leipzig has always been a trade city, situated during the time of the Holy Roman Empire at the intersection of the Via Regia and Via Imperii, two important trade routes. At one time, Leipzig was one of the major European centres of learning and culture in fields such as music and publishing...

, and Weimar

Weimar

Weimar is a city in Germany famous for its cultural heritage. It is located in the federal state of Thuringia , north of the Thüringer Wald, east of Erfurt, and southwest of Halle and Leipzig. Its current population is approximately 65,000. The oldest record of the city dates from the year 899...

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In 1864 he married Marie Kreuzer, daughter of Heinrich Kreuzer, tenor at the Vienna Court Opera, und, after getting divorced in 1882, the actress Minnie Arndt .

From 1870 to 1875 he was at the Stadt-Theater of Frankfort-on-the-Main, and for the next five years at that of Hamburg

Hamburg

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, where he acted as director. He visited London

London

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 in 1881 with the Meiningen Court Company. In 1882 he made a successful tour of the United States

United States

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. From 1887 to 1894 he managed his Berliner Theater in Berlin

Berlin

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, following which he made his home in Wiesbaden

Wiesbaden

Wiesbaden is a city in southwest Germany and the capital of the federal state of Hesse. It has about 275,400 inhabitants, plus approximately 10,000 United States citizens...

. Barnay's greatest talents were shown in tragedy. He excelled in rôles such as Essex, Uriel Acosta

Uriel da Costa

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, Othello

Othello

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, Antony

Mark Antony

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, Tell

William Tell

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, and Egmont

Lamoral, Count of Egmont

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. He was the leader in the movement which assembled the stage congress at Weimar in 1871, thus being founder of the "Association" (Bühnengenossenschaft), which proved of such value to the German theatrical profession.