Carsten Rüger

Carsten Rüger (born February 23, 1971 in Krefeld ) is a German reporter and news anchor for ZDF .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1990, Rüger studied political science , German and English at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn , the Sorbonne in Paris and Perugia in Italy at the Fichte-Gymnasium Krefeld and military service . After completing his master's degree at Trinity Hall in Cambridge , he worked as a freelancer for various daily newspapers and local radio stations as well as for the ZDF studio in London . After further work at Deutsche Welle TV in Bonn and a traineeship at ZDF, Carsten Rüger became an editor at Frontal in 1998 . Since broadcasting in 2001 he was a member of ZDF.reporter and ZDF.reportage . In April and May 2005 he worked for papal reporting and as a studio representative for four weeks in the ZDF studio in Rome . Rüger also presented the ZDF-heute-Nachrichten as a substitute between 2005 and 2009 , especially the program today noon as a substitute for Anja Charlet . In addition, he acts as a studio representative in the ZDF studios in Vienna , Washington , London, Istanbul and Rome for current events .

After the ZDF.reporter was discontinued in March 2011, Rüger received new tasks at ZDF. Until May 2012, he was a reporter and editor at ZDFzoom and as a permanent presenter for the heute news. He initially acted as a representative for various editions, including a. the early editions, weekend editions or today - in Germany . From May 2012 to June 2015 he regularly presented the heute news within the ZDF morning magazine . From March 2014 to May 2015, he also took over the regular moderation of the night edition of heute news tonight , alternating with other colleagues. He also works as a reporter in the ZDF main editorial office "News". Since July 2015 he has been the moderator of the cross-media short message format today Xpress .

Web links

• Carsten Rüger in the Internet Movie Database (English)