Raimund Hoghe

Raimund Hoghe (12 May 1949 – 14 May 2021) was a German choreographer, dancer, film maker, journalist, and author. Because he was born with scoliosis, his early efforts were focused on journalism. His writings explored the human condition; a documentation series won him an award by the age of 24. For the weekly Die Zeit, he portrayed personalities, the well-to-do, the less fortunate, and those shunned by society. After meeting Pina Bausch while profiling her, he served as dramaturge and chronicler of her Tanztheater Wuppertal from 1980 to 1990. He made his choreographic debut in 1989, then worked independently. His first solo production, Meinwärts in 1994, was about the Jewish tenor and actor Josef Schmidt, but also Hoghe's nonormative body. He was awarded the Deutscher Tanzpreis in 2020, and is regarded as "one of the protagonists of German contemporary dance theatre". Wenn keiner singt, ist es still. Porträts, Rezensionen und andere Texte. Verlag Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-95749-233-3 Raimund Hoghe. Verlag Theater der Zeit, Berlin, 2013, Pina Bausch. Sangensha Publishing, Tokyo, 1999 Zeitporträts. Beltz Quadriga Verlag, Weinheim/Berlin 1993, Pina Bausch – Historias de teatro danza por Raimund Hoghe. Ultramar Editores, Barcelona 1989 Bandoneon – Em que o tango pode ser bom para tudo? Attar Editorial, São Paulo 1989 Pina Bausch – Histoires de théâtre dansé. L’Arche Éditeur, Paris 1987 Pina Bausch – Tanztheatergeschichten. Mit Fotos von Ulli Weiss. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1987, Wo es nichts zu weinen gibt. Porträts und Reportagen. Van Acken Verlag, Krefeld 1987/90, Preis der Liebe. Rimbaud Presse, Aachen 1984, Anderssein. Lebensläufe außerhalb der Norm. Sammlung Luchterhand, Darmstadt 1982, Bandoneon – Für was kann Tango alles gut sein? Texte und Fotos zu einem Stück von Pina Bausch. Luchterhand Verlag, Darmstadt 1981/2013, Schwäche als Stärke. Bethel – Ein Symbol und die Realität. Neukirchener Verlag, Neukirchen-Vluyn 1976,

Productions Hoghe's productions include:

1989: Forbidden Fruit

Es bleibt noch viel zu sagen, television documentary, Germany, 1980

Film portraits Raimund Hoghe, der Außergewöhnliche. Germany, 2012, 43 min., moderation: , production: arte, redaction: , first aired: 11 November 2012

Der Buckel. self-portrait, 1997, WDR 2001: Deutscher Produzentenpreis für Choreographie