Serge Honegger works as a dramaturge and cultural manager. After studying art history and German philology, he supervised numerous opera, dance and ballet productions, interdisciplinary formats and projects in visual arts. He sat on the jury for the awarding of the City of Munich's dance sponsorship prizes (2024 and 2025) and for the call for tenders for a new dance production at the Phönix Theatre (2024). He has taught dramaturgy, aesthetics and dance history at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München and the Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding. He develops fundraising strategies for companies and organisations for Impact Partners Basel and Brakeley Europe & Partners.
He completed his doctorate at the University of St. Gallen (HSG) with a thesis on modalities of leadership in the postmodern era (entitled ‘Lenkung und Ablenkung’). Among the cultural institutions to which he has been engaged are the Zurich Opera House, the Staatsoper unter den Linden, the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, the Hessian State Theatre Wiesbaden, the St. Gallen Theatre, the Schauspielhaus Zurich and the Watermill Center New York. Most recently, he worked as a dramaturge for the Bavarian State Ballet in Munich from the 2020/2021 season. His more recent cultural projects include the literary soundscape ‘Street Ballads’, which has been performed in several museums in Switzerland and Bulgaria, and the dance and film project ‘Sakuntalas Ring’ for the Bavarian State Opera/Bavarian State Ballet.
From 1999 to 2004, Serge Honegger worked as an assistant director for the Zurich Opera House and accompanied Robert Wilson's ‘Ring’ cycle, among others. As dramaturge, he supervised Heinz Spoerli's production of Jean-Philippe Rameau's ‘Les indes galantes’ with the Zurich Ballet. This was followed by Vladimir Malakhov's ‘Cinderella’ at the Staatsoper unter den Linden Berlin. As dramaturge and assistant director to Rebecca Horn, he realised ‘Elektra’ for the International May Festival at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden in 2010. Until 2015, he was head dramaturge at the St.Gallen Theatre for musical theatre productions.
Among the dance and theatre artists with whom Serge Honegger has worked are Özkan Ayik, Liliana Cavani, David Dawson, Charlotte Edmonds, Jürgen Flimm, Marco Goecke, Yossi Berg & Oded Graf, Claus Guth, Daniel Hay-Gordon, Jens-Daniel Herzog, Edouard Hue, Linda Kapetanea & Jozef Frucek, Laurent Hilaire, Andrey Kaydanovskiy, Konstantin Keykhel, Marcel Leemann, Sol León und Paul Lightfoot, Jonathan Lunn, Vladimir Malakhov, Yuki Mori, Marion Motin, Nicolas Paul, Naomi Perlov, Angelin Preljocaj, Alexei Ratmansky, Marco Santi, Liam Scarlett, Johannes Schmid, Anoosha Shastry, Heinz Spoerli, Andrew Skeels, Stephan Thoss, Beate Vollack und Robert Wilson.
Since 2004, he has worked as a dramaturge and artistic director on productions in the field of music theatre (dance productions, operas, oratorios, performances and staged concerts). An important focus of his work is on interdisciplinary and participatory forms of theatre. Performances under his artistic direction have been shown at Theaterspektakel Zürich ("REQUIEMreloaded"), Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden ("Winterreise") and Theater St.Gallen ("Das Herz bebt im Stillen"). In 2020/2021, "I am not alone", a live soundscape on the ancient Via Egnatia route, was created in collaboration with Manuela Casari and Claudio Mascolo. It involved 16 museums and 15 writers from all language regions of Switzerland. In 2022, he realised "Street Ballads II" in Bulgaria, an interdisciplinary artistic exchange project between artists from Switzerland and Bulgaria. In September 2023, the live soundscape "Street Ballads III" premiered at the Kunsthaus Zürich with an 18-member performance ensemble and contributions from Ukrainian writers. In February 2024, the digital comic "Sakuntalas Ring", curated by him and Martina Borsche, was published and will be performed as a participatory dance piece at the Bayerische Staatsoper in September 2024.
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