The Döbbelinsches Theater or Döbbelin Theater, was a theater in Berlin, active between 1764 and 1799. It was the first permanent German language theater in Berlin. It was founded by Karl Schuch and named after its director,

Karl Theophil Döbbelin Karl Gottlieb Döbbelin (Karl Theophilus Döbbelin, also Carl Theophil Döbbelin as well as Doebelin or Döbelin (27 February 1727 – 10 December 1793) was a German theatre director and actor. Life Born in Königsberg in der Neumark, Döbbel ...

. Prior to its foundation, Berlin had an opera house (founded in 1742) which only employed Italian artists, and travelling theater troupes often visited the city, but the Döbbeling theater was the first permanent theater for a permanent German language stage company.

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* Dagmar Claus: Einer, der den Hanswurst vertrieb. Carl Theophil Doebbelin (1727–1793). In: Berlinische Monatsschrift 2/1997 beim Luisenstädtischen Bildungsverein, S. 68ff 18th-century establishments in Prussia Theatres completed in 1764 18th century in Berlin History of Berlin {{Germany-theat-struct-stub