Theodor Döring

Theodor Döring ( born January 9, 1803 in Warsaw, † August 17, 1878 in Berlin) was a German actor.

Life

Theodor Döring was born the son of a Prussian salt inspector in Warsaw and moved to Prenzlau with his family in 1807. In Berlin he attended the Joachimsthalsche High School and began an apprenticeship. He first played as amateurs in the amateur theater of Urania, but then broke off his apprenticeship and moved first as a traveling actor through Germany with stops in Bydgoszcz, Mainz, Karlsruhe, Mannheim, Hamburg and Stuttgart.

From 1834 he worked in Hamburg, and in 1845 he became the successor to Karl Seydel 's in Stuttgart. In 1848 he moved to Hanover, where he received a lifetime contract at the Court Theatre. However, he managed to solve this Agreement, when he was again appointed as successor Seydel Manns, 1845 at the Court Theatre in Berlin. On 15 June 1878 he appeared there one last time and died a month later in Berlin.

Döring was in 1872 winner of the Iffland -Ring. The Döring in Berlin- Friedrichshain and Döring street in Stuttgart are named after him.

He was buried in the cemetery III of Jerusalem and a new parish.