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Theodor Döring (9 January 1803 – 17 August 1878) was a German actor. Döring was born in
Warsaw Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and List of cities and towns in Poland, largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the Vistula, River Vistula in east-central Poland. Its population is officially estimated at ...
and settled with his family in 1807 in
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. He attended high school in Berlin. He found work as an actor, later working in
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in 1834. He received a lifetime contract at the Berlin Hoftheater. He retired 15 June 1878 and died one month later in Berlin.


Honors

Döring received the
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in 1872. Döringstrasse in
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in Berlin was named for him.


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in the Allgemeinen Deutschen Biographie 1803 births 1878 deaths Male actors from Warsaw German male stage actors Iffland-Ring 19th-century German male actors 19th-century comedians Immigrants to the Kingdom of Prussia Male actors from the Kingdom of Prussia {{Germany-stage-actor-stub