[2] He read Theatre Studies, English Literature and Theoretical Linguistics at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, where he worked, following his PhD, as an Assistant Professor for Dance and Performance from 2000.
In 2015/16, Boenisch was a Fellow at the research college Interweaving Performance Cultures, that was led between 2009 and 2019 at FU Berlin by senior German theatre scholar Erika Fischer-Lichte.
[8][9] He gained his PhD supervised by Christopher Balme on representations of movement and physicality in contemporary dance and theatre productions.
[10] His 2015 study Directing Scenes and Senses: The Thinking of Regie (Manchester University Press 2015) maps the Continental European approach of 'directors' theatre' (Regietheater) by drawing a historical and conceptual comparison with the development of European philosophy (the main reference point is Hegel's dialectics).
[12] Between 2012 and 2015, funding by the British Academy and Leverhulme Trust enabled him to work together with German theatre director Thomas Ostermeier, resulting in their joint book The Theatre of Thomas Ostermeier (Routledge 2016).