Education
Verena Hoehne studied Theatre studies in Marburg, Zurich, Munich and Vienna, where she earned a doctorate on "The Schauspielhaus Zurich 1945–1965".
Verena Hoehne studied Theatre studies in Marburg, Zurich, Munich and Vienna, where she earned a doctorate on "The Schauspielhaus Zurich 1945–1965".
From 1972 onwards, Verena Hoehne worked as a journalist for Schweizer Fernsehen, where she run her own cultural magazine called Scheinwerfer as well as several documentaries and news features on theater and other cultural topics. She also carried out interviews in the series "Begegnungen" (encounters) for the German-speaking regional television station 3sat. The guests of her interviews and documentaries included Max Frisch, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Elias Canetti, Maria Becker, Ernst Schröder (actor), Karl Paryla, Franz Hohler, Wolf Biermann and Emil Steinberger.
At the Schauspielhaus Zürich she moderated together with Urs Bircher a series on theatre history as well as matinées with Giorgio Strehler, Georg Tabori, Benno Besson and Werner Düggelin.
In her home town Baden, Switzerland she was involved as a moderator, actor and reader at local theatres Thik, Teatro Palino and cultural events at other venues such as the café Frau Meise. Verena Hoehne died on 25 January 2012 in Zurich.
From 1990 through 2001 Verena Hoehne was in the governing board of Theater am Neumarkt in Zürich and a member of the Swiss Society for Theatre Culture.