Dorothee Hartinger comes from Regensburg in the Upper Palatinate.
Following her training at the Otto Falckenberg School, she had engagements at the Münchner Kammerspiele, the Schauspiel Frankfurt, the Salzburg Festival and the Thalia Theater in Hamburg. In 2000/01 she was engaged as „Gretchen“ as a member of the ensemble for Peter Stein's 21-hour „Faust marathon“ in Hanover, Berlin and Vienna.
She has been a member of the Burgtheater ensemble since 2002, where her roles have included „Hilde Wangel“ in Ibsen's „The Master Builder“, Schnitzler's „Miss Else“ and „Viola“ in „Twelfth Night“. She can currently be seen on stage in „The Wall“ based on the novel by Marlen Haushofer, as „Puck“ in „A Midsummer Night's Dream“ and as „Stef Banic“ in „The McNeal Case“ by A. Akhtar.