Raimund Hoghe obituary
Choreographer, dancer, dramaturge and writer Raimund Hoghe, one of the most distinctive figures of contemporary performing arts, suddenly passed away at his home in Düsseldorf on May 14th. Hoghe was going to participate in a live conversation after showing excerpts of his pieces on the 14th and 15th as part of this year's online version of the Dance festival held in Munich every two years. Hoghe was born in 1949 in Wuppertal. He was working as a dramaturge in the Tanztheater Wuppertal between 1979 and 1989 when Pina Bausch began to form and mature her dance theater aesthetics. If I count only a few of the works of those years, for example "Viktor", "1980", "Bandoneon", it would be impossible not to give credit to Hoghe for he was one of the members of the creative team at the peak of Bausch's art. In addition to these three, I also want to name two pieces of Bausch, "Auf den Gebirge hat man ein Geschrei gehört" and "Two cigarettes i...