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
Prenzlau
Prenzlau (; ) is a town in Brandenburg, in north-eastern Germany, the administrative seat of Uckermark District. It is also the centre of the historic Uckermark region.
Geography
The town is located on the Ucker river, about north of Berlin. ...
. He attended high school in Berlin. He found work as an actor, later working in
Hamburg
Hamburg (, ; ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,. is the List of cities in Germany by population, second-largest city in Germany after Berlin and List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, 7th-lar ...
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
Iffland-Ring
The Iffland-Ring is a diamond-studded finger ring, ring with a picture of August Wilhelm Iffland, a prominent German actor, dramatist and theatre director of the late 18th and early 19th century, who played in works of contemporary writers Goeth ...
in 1872. Döringstrasse in
Friedrichshain
Friedrichshain () is a quarter (''Ortsteil'') of the borough of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg in Berlin, Germany. From its creation in 1920 until 2001, it was a freestanding Boroughs of Berlin, city borough. Formerly part of East Berlin, it is adjace ...
in Berlin was named for him.
External links
Biographyin 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
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