Raimund Hoghe

Raimund Hoghe/Hoghe & Schulte GbR

Raimund Hoghe was born in Wuppertal and began his career by writing portraits of outsiders and celebrities for the German weekly newspaper “Die Zeit”. These were later compiled into several books. From 1980 to 1990 he worked as a dramaturge for Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal, and that process became the subject matter for two more books. Since 1989 he has been working on his own theatre pieces for dancers and actors. 1992 he began a collaboration with the artist Luca Giacomo Schulte, which continues even now. In 1994 he produced his first self-performed solo Meinwärts, which together with the subsequent Chambre séparée [Separate Room] (1997) and Another Dream (2000) formed a trilogy about the 20th century.

Hoghe frequently works for television on projects such as Lebensträume (1994) and Der Buckel, his 1997 hour-long self-portrait for WDR (West German Radio and Television). His books have been translated into several languages, and he has presented his performances all over Europe, as well as in North and South America, Asia and Australia. He has been awarded several prizes including the Deutscher Produzentenpreis für Choreografie (German Production Prize for Choreography) in 2001, the French Prix de la Critique in 2006 for Swan Lake, 4 Acts (in the category of “Best Foreign Piece”). Critics from the magazin “ballet-tanz” awarded him “Dancer of the Year” for 2008. Books about his theatre works have been published in France, Germany, Great Britain and the United States.
In May 2021, Raimund Hoghe passed away. Since then, his company Hoghe+Schulte has been touring a tribute show “An Evening with Raimund” with ten of his dancers and working on a show-conference from his archives on the life of Raimund Hoghe.

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Administration, production, touring : Mathieu Hilléreau
+33 1 43 38 23 71 / production@lesindependances.com


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