Michel Ruge

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Michel Ruge (born December 21, 1969 in Hamburg ) is a German author, actor, bouncer, bodyguard and martial artist.

Life

Michel Ruge grew up in Hamburg-St. Pauli , according to his own statement, he experienced the local milieu as a "well-protected", but nevertheless "free space" home. His father owned three brothels in Hamburg . His mother worked as a waitress in a bar. At the age of 16 he moved into a supervised shared apartment for young people in Hamburg's Karolinenviertel . He attended the technical college for graphics and studied 4 semesters at the Hamburg University of Economics and Politics (HWP). He also worked as a dancer. In 1996 he began training at the drama school in Hamburg, where he graduated in 1999, and at the same time he ran a café on St. Pauli.

Since moving to Berlin in 1999, Ruge has appeared in various television series and films, including For All Cases Stefanie (2000) and Berlin, Berlin (2005).

Ruge has been practicing martial arts since he was 13. At the age of 25 he started Eskrima . After moving to Berlin, he regularly took private lessons from the founder of the Escrima Training Federation (ETF) in Hamburg, Bernd Schubert. In 2001, he and the artist Daniel Richter opened a school for "ETF Combat Escrima" in Berlin and also worked as a doorman and bodyguard. In 2010, in this role, he accompanied the German national soccer team to advertising shoots in Cape Town.

Michel Ruge at night café in the SWR

In 2009 Michel Ruge lived with his wife at the time in Los Angeles and was on the Turkish Mafia death list with her. The background to this was the interweaving of the wife in mafia structures. After 12 months, Ruge managed to avert the murder order.

In 2014, Michel Ruge and Frank Künster started the anarchist film project "State Disapproved Commune". In April of the next year, Ruge converted to the Catholic faith.

In 2015 Michel Ruge initiated the "Gangs United" project, in which he brought together members and ex-members of various formerly hostile Hamburg youth gangs from the 1980s at regular meetings. The project met with great media interest. In 2017 he was awarded the "St. Pauli Urgestein" prize by the St. Pauli Citizens' Association for his services to the project. On March 4, 2018, Ruge ended the project after three successful meetings in order to avoid political instrumentalization of the project by left and right groups.

In February 2018, Ruge, together with Julia Staron, the St.Pauli Quartiers manager, organized the #SaveSt.Pauli demo against the flooding of the neighborhood with kiosks and cheap alcohol and the corresponding negative consequences for restaurants and residents. Ruge has been campaigning for the preservation of cultural diversity in his district of St. Pauli for years and, among other things, called for milieu protection for his district.

In 2018 the second part of his autobiography was published: Große Freiheit Mitte - My wild trip through Berlin's nightlife.

On December 21, 2018, Michel Ruge opened his photo exhibition with the title: My little stairs on St.Pauli in the St.Pauli Museum. It shows the very personal retrospective of his life on St. Pauli using photos with people who all have a history that connects the quarter and who were guests on the stairs of his house on St. Pauli.

Books

  • The Ruge principle: Recognize signals of violence, master conflicts, show moral courage! . VGS Verlag, Cologne, 2010, ISBN 978-3802537172
  • Curb king. My wild youth in St. Pauli . Knaur Verlag, Munich, 2013, ISBN 978-3426785508
  • Great freedom in the middle. My wild trip through Berlin's nightlife. Knaur Verlag, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-426-78926-1

Filmography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see for example in the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q68E9r2QfT8 , (accessed on July 15, 2013)
  2. ↑ SWR: Nothing to regret? - Of missed opportunities | Night cafe. April 30, 2018, accessed May 2, 2018 .
  3. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dijLFIQ8qhY , (accessed on November 10, 2015)
  4. ↑ Michel Ruge: Religion: The miraculous conversion of a doorman legend. In: welt.de . June 27, 2015, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  5. ↑ https://www.rap-n-blues.com/gangs-united-dokumentation/59988/
  6. ↑ see in the Hamburg part of ZEIT No. 10/2017 of March 2, 2017, page 4.
  7. ↑ Michel Ruge: Popper, Mods, Teds, Punks: Reunion of the street gang. In: welt.de . June 17, 2016, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Eva Eusterhus: gentrification: "As if St. Pauli Disney World would be." In: welt.de . June 30, 2017. Retrieved October 7, 2018 .
  9. ↑ ... because they don't know what they're doing. In: sueddeutsche.de. March 4, 2018, accessed August 10, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Demos against cheap kiosks - Desperate battle for the neighborhood . In: bild.de . ( bild.de [accessed on March 2, 2018]).
  11. ^ "Save St. Pauli" - Hundreds demonstrate against cheap kiosks . In: bild.de . ( bild.de [accessed on March 2, 2018]).
  12. ↑ Wiebke Dördrechte: Protest on St. Pauli: "The kiosks have increased here like cockroaches" . In: MOPO.de . ( mopo.de [accessed on March 2, 2018]).
  13. ↑ Everything has to go! Stop plastinating my city . In: stern.de . February 17, 2018 ( stern.de [accessed March 2, 2018]).
  14. ↑ "Disgusting misery tourism" - Kiez-Insider says: St. Pauli is becoming a human zoo! In: MOPO.de. April 26, 2019, accessed April 27, 2019 .
  15. ^ Jan Feddersen: Book premiere in Berlin: The adventures of Michel Ruge . In: The daily newspaper: taz . February 28, 2018, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed on March 2, 2018]).
  16. ^ Bouncer legend Michel Ruge had hundreds of affairs in Berlin . ( bz-berlin.de [accessed on March 2, 2018]).
  17. ↑ Kiez-Käffchen at "Bordstein-König Michel Ruge". Retrieved January 13, 2019 .


personal data
SURNAME Ruge, Michel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, actor, and martial artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg