Theodor Döring was a German actor.

Döring was born in Warsaw

Warsaw

Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...

 and settled with his family in 1807 in Prenzlau

Prenzlau

Prenzlau , a city in the Uckermark District of Brandenburg in Germany, had a population of about 21,000 in 2005.-International relations:Prenzlau is twinned with: Uster, Switzerland Barlinek, Poland Świdwin, Poland...

. He attended high school in Berlin

Berlin

Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

. He found work as an actor, later working in Hamburg

Hamburg

-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

 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

Iffland-Ring

The Iffland-Ring is a diamond-studded ring with the picture of August Wilhelm Iffland ....

 in 1872. Döringstrasse in Friedrichshain

Friedrichshain

Friedrichshain is a part of Berlin's borough of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, and like Kreuzberg across the river it has its own distinct character, with the result that the new double name is hardly ever used outside government administration. From its creation in 1920 until Berlin's 2001...

 in Berlin was named for him.

External links

• Biography in the Allgemeinen Deutschen Biographie
  Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
  Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie is one of the most important and most comprehensive biographical reference works in the German language....