author
Georg Döring
1789–1833
A German man of letters with a musician’s ear, he moved easily between fiction, journalism, poetry, and the stage. His career also reached into opera, where he wrote libretti and worked closely with the musical life of his time.
2 Audiobooks
Die Mumie von Rotterdam. Zweiter Theil
by Georg Döring
Die Mumie von Rotterdam. Erster Theil
by Georg Döring
About the author
Born in Kassel on December 11, 1789, Georg Christian Wilhelm Asmus Döring was a German writer, musician, and journalist. Reference works describe him not only as a novelist and dramatist, but also as an oboist and composer, which helps explain the unusually close link between his literary work and the world of music.
He studied philosophy in Göttingen and went on to build a varied career that included writing novels, plays, poems, and cultural journalism. Sources on his life also note that he wrote opera libretti, including texts connected with composers such as Louis Spohr, Ferdinand Ries, and Franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee, showing how active he was in early 19th-century German musical and theatrical circles.
Döring died in Frankfurt am Main on October 10, 1833. Even in a short life, he left behind work across several forms, and that mix of storytelling, criticism, and music gives him a distinctive place among German Romantic-era authors.