Career
At Glyndebourne he designed productions of Janáček"s Káťa Kabanová, The Makropulos Affair and Jenůfa, as well as Benjamin Britten"s Death in Venice and Smetana"s The Bartered Bride. He has designed for many United Kingdom theatre companies including the National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company (Julius Caesar, Richard III), the Almeida (Ivanov, with Ralph Fiennes) and the Royal Court. He has created productions at the Vienna State Opera, Burgtheater (including the world premiere of Peter Handke"s The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other), Berlin State Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz (the German premiere of Yasmina Reza"s "Art"), Cologne Opera, Nationale Reisopera in Enschede, Paris Opera, Gran Teatro Liceu, Louisiana Scala, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera and New York City Opera, as well as the festivals at Drottningholm, Graz, Vienna, Munich, Glimmerglass, Florence and Santa Fe.
At the Edinburgh International Festival (2008) Hoheisel designed and, together with the German actress Imogen Kogge, directed Smetana"s The Two Widows (which was awarded a Herald Angel).
Major influences in his work were Peter Stein and Karl-Ernst Herrmann, Luc Bondy, Robert Wilson, as well as Giorgio Strehler and Ariane Mnouchkine"s Théâtre du Soleil. Hoheisel was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and studied theatre design at the then Hochschule (now Universität) der Künste in Berlin, where he lived until moving to London in 1993.
He was taught by Achim Freyer (set design) and Martin Rupprecht (costume design), before working as assistant to Marco Marelli. He also assisted Karl-Ernst Herrmann on two Mozart productions: Don Giovanni and Louisiana finta giardiniera at Louisiana Monnaie in Brussels.