Minna Barnay

Minna Barnay
Carte de Visite (CDV) Portrait of the actress Minna Barnay; Studio photograph by Otto van Bosch, Frankfurt am Main, around 1870; Manskopf Collection of the Johann Christian Senckenberg University Library
Born1852 (1852)
Died3 January 1932(1932-01-03) (aged 79–80)
Hanover
OccupationStage actress

Minna Barney, also known as Minnie Barney, with the surname Arendt (born 1852 in Hanover – died 3 January 1932, in Hanover) was a German Stage actress.

Life

Minna Barney first performed in Frankfurt, later in Hamburg and Dresden. In 1874, she became a member of the Konzerthaus Berlin.In 1883, she married the actor Ludwig Barnay and retired from the stage that same year.[1][2][3][4]

Honors

After the Hanover City Council decided in 1999 to prioritize naming new streets after women who had played an important role in the city's history, a brochure was published in August 2011 containing information about existing street names in honor of women, as well as a list of women who were to have streets named after them in the future. The list also included the name and biography of Minna Barney.[5][6]

References

  1. ↑ "Kalliope | Verbundkatalog für Archiv- und archivähnliche Bestände und nationales Nachweisinstrument für Nachlässe und Autographen". kalliope-verbund.info. Retrieved 2026-08-22.
  2. ↑ "Verifying your browser". sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de. Retrieved 2026-08-22.
  3. ↑ Hannoversches biographisches Lexikon: von den Anfängen bis in die Gegenwart (in German). Schlütersche. 2002. ISBN 978-3-87706-706-2.
  4. ↑ Deutsches Theater-Lexikon. Biographisches und bibliographisches Handbuch (Band 1). De Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1953, S. 75 (begründet von Wilhelm Kosch, fortgeführt von Ingrid Bigler-Marschall).
  5. ↑ Ricca, Cristina (2005-06-30). "Musik. Frau. Sprache. Interdisziplinäre Frauen- und Genderforschung an der Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover, hrsg. von der Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover, Kathrin Beyer und Annette Kreutziger-Herr, Centaurus Verlag Herbolzheim 2003 The Authors". European Journal of Musicology. 8. doi:10.5450/ejm.2005.8.8. ISSN 2504-1916.
  6. ↑ Dirk Böttcher: Barney, (2) Minna. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (Hrsg.) u. a.: Stadtlexikon Hannover. Von den Anfängen bis in die Gegenwart. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9, S. 50.