His first solo production, Meinwärts in 1994, was about the Jewish tenor and actor Josef Schmidt, but also Hoghe's nonormative body.
[6] He worked as a journalist, and was awarded the Theodor Wolff Prize for a documentary series about Bethel written when he was age 24.
[3] He was a freelance writer for the weekly Die Zeit[3] profiling prominent performers like Bruno Ganz, Rex Gildo, and Freddy Quinn,[2] as well as lesser-known persons such as the photographer Helga Paris[7] and Adam Soboczynski [de],[8] and social outsiders such as cleaners, AIDS patients, and sex workers.
[12][13] His works dealt with political circumstances, such as the situation of refugees in Europe, and, in the 1990s, the beginning of the AIDS crisis which was a topic in Meinwärts.
[14] Hoghe directed several films, also for television, like his self-portrait Der Buckel (The Hunchback) for the WDR in 1997.
[14] He received awards including the Deutscher Produzentenpreis für Choreografie in 2001 and the Prix de la critique Francaise for Swan Lake, 4 Acts in the category "Best foreign production" in 2006.