Career
Djurström"s father was a minister and he received a good education before he started to perform as an actor under the name Erik Djurström in Djurgårdsteatern in Stockholm in 1807 and in the travelling Stålberg theatre. In 1819 he became the director of the touring country side theatre, first on the behalf of Stålberg"s widow, then as director in his own name. The Djurström company was one of the most famous travelling theatres of the country side in the 1820s and 1830s, held a higih artistical level according to critics and performed foreign romances he himself had translated and played the main part in.