Nina Ruge

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Nina Ruge (born August 24, 1956 in Munich ) is a German television presenter , author and journalist .

Life

Ruge comes from a German-Jewish family. On the father's side, rabbis with the name Katzenellenbogen are documented as early as the 15th century. Her ancestor Gabriel Riesser was a member of the Paulskirchenparliament and was committed to the equality of German Jews in the 19th century. Many of her family members were killed in the Holocaust. As a half-Jew , her father was persecuted and taken to a camp in France by the National Socialists, but managed to escape and survived. Ruge only found out about her family history at the age of 18. Due to a cancer of the mother, Nina Ruge was given to an infant home shortly after the birth for the time of the cancer treatment . In 1974, at the age of 17, she graduated from the Ina Seidel School in Braunschweig . This was followed by a degree in German and biology for a higher teaching post at the Technical University of Braunschweig , where her father Jürgen Ruge also taught as a professor of mechanical engineering at the Institute for Welding Technology. She completed this in 1979. In the subsequent 1980 and 1987, it was initially a trainee and later school teacher for German and biology at a high school in Wolfsburg .

Ruge's first marriage ended in divorce after four years while she was still in school. From 1995 to 1998 she was married to the TV producer Stefan Voss. She has been in a relationship with Wolfgang Reitzle since 1998 and has been married to him since 2001. She cited the reason she withdrew from People Today that after nine years of relationship and five years of marriage she finally wanted to move in with her husband.

She is not related to the journalist Gerd Ruge .

career

From 1980 to 1987 Ruge taught first as a trainee teacher and later as a teacher at the Wolfsburg Kreuzheide grammar school. On the side she wrote articles for the NDR (radio editorial office Braunschweig) as a freelancer .

In 1987 she gave up the civil service career and moved to Berlin to work in film. She was first a cloakroom attendant , then a script girl , and finally an assistant director . She received an editorial contract with the Sender Free Berlin (SFB) and worked in the family and women's program. In 1988 she went to RIAS-TV , moderated the breakfast television and the evening journal . A year later she also worked for ZDF . On October 9, 1989, Nina Ruge spoke for the first time as a co-host of the news block in heute-journal . She also moderated the 3sat programs PEP, News Quiz, Classic Cuts, Daily Talk and - alternately with Helmut Markwort and Gerd Ruge - the Sunday political talk show Nineteen Ten . She also presented the daily entertainment magazine Boulevard Deutschland on RIAS TV .

In the course of the conversion from RIAS TV to Deutsche Welle TV , she took over the weekly moderation of the main news program and a political magazine at Deutsche Welle TV from 1991 to 1994.

In October 1994, Ruge became the first host of the weekday news program tonight . From 1997 to February 3, 2007, she moderated the tabloid magazine People Today . Her personal trademark in this format was the phrase that always fell at the end of the program: “Everything will be fine.” Since then she has been working for ARD and ZDF. She moderated the Phoenix talk show Science Forum Petersberg until 2009 , regularly moderated the holiday accents for the ZDF editorial team Church and Life (Catholic) and took on special projects for both ARD ( International Circus Festival of Monte Carlo ) and ZDF ( Christmas Eve with Nina Ruge ). In the summer of 2007, Ruge hosted his own talk show on ZDF (as the summer representative of Johannes B. Kerner ) with the title Nina Ruge: Everything will be fine . In summer 2007 she presented a new fashion show on ZDF for the first time under the title nina.ruge.mode . She currently hosts the talk show Unter Vier Augen and on phoenix alternately with Sabine Sauer on Bavarian television on Saturdays at 4:15 p.m., alternating with Sigmund Gottlieb and the talk show Forum Manager together with Marc Beise . She also works regularly for companies and institutions as a moderator of congresses, panel discussions and various events, mainly in the fields of politics, business and technology.

Until mid-2008 she was a columnist for the now-discontinued magazine Revue . Before that, she wrote columns regularly for Reader's Digest . She currently heads u. a. regularly the "Roundtable" of the animal magazine Tiere Life .

So far she has written or published over 20 books.

In September 2010 Ruge had a guest role in three episodes of the ARD telenovela Sturm der Liebe .

Nina Ruge at the DIVA Award 2008 in Munich
Nina Ruge at a Buddy Bear auction for UNICEF 2010 in Berlin

engagement

Nina Ruge has been UNICEF representative since 1994 . In 2012 she was appointed the official UNICEF Germany ambassador. For UNICEF, she has already been on project trips to Romania, Nigeria, Johannesburg and Cambodia. In addition, she has been intensely committed to the Felix Burda Foundation for ten years, for example through advertising spots and print campaigns. Nina Ruge has been the patron of the "Network by and for women with disabilities in Bavaria" for more than ten years. She is the ambassador of the Jane Goodall Institute Germany, member of the board of trustees of the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation and the Initiative for Socially Competent Dog Owners. In addition, Ruge was "Ambassador of the Dog 2010/2011" of the Association for the German Dog Society.

Since 2010 she has been the sponsor of the Bethel Children's Hospice for terminally ill children, and Nina Ruge is also one of the German ambassadors for the UN Decade of Biological Diversity .

In addition to these charitable projects, Nina Ruge is also actively involved in environmental protection and the expansion of renewable energies. She participates in Aktion Klima! mobile and is also the patron of the “Heat change” campaign. Energy efficiency is particularly important to her, as she emphasized in an interview:

“Energy efficiency is still the wallflower of the energy transition. Everyone is talking about photovoltaics and wind turbines - nobody about the potential of energy efficiency. I am convinced that this topic should gain more public space. I would like to do my part to protect the environment - and also reduce costs! "

Since 2014, Nina Ruge has also been supporting the Heraeus Education Foundation on the Foundation Advisory Board.

Filmography

Movies

Guest appearances on television

Moderation

  • 1988: evening journal Rias tv
  • 1988–1991: Breakfast television Rias tv
  • 1989–1994: Comoderation ZDF “ heute journal ”, ZDF
  • 1992–1995: t New Quiz, 3sat
  • 1991–1999: Ruge - 19zehn, 3sat
  • 1991–1993: Sunday show, 3sat
  • 1989–1994: Daily Talk, 3sat
  • 1997-2000: classic cuts, 3sat
  • 1994–1997: Tonight, ZDF
  • 1994–1997: Tele Zoo, ZDF
  • 2000–2005: Classic People, Classic Radio
  • 1997–2007: People Today, ZDF
  • 2005: Bavarian TV Prize
  • 2006–2009: Holiday accents, ZDF
  • 2006–2009: Science Forum Petersberg, phoenix
  • 2007: Nina Ruge: Everything will be fine, ZDF
  • since 2007: Unter4Augen, Bavarian TV
  • since 2010: Forum Manager, phoenix

Honors

Books and audio books

Web links

Wikiquote: Nina Ruge  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andrea von Treuenfeld: Heirs of the Holocaust. Life between silence and memory. Munich 2017, pp. 66–81.
  2. ↑ Nina Ruge: The invincible summer in us. A guide to our very own place of power (= Goldmann. 22109). Complete paperback edition, 1st edition. Goldmann, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-442-22109-7 .
  3. ↑ Roger Thiede: Modern Life: "Mambo Mazuri", Nina Ruge! In: Focus . No. July 29 , 1997 ( focus.de [accessed October 22, 2019]).
  4. ↑ Nina Ruge and Wolfgang Reitzle marry quietly in Tuscany. In: Die Welt (online), September 12, 2001, accessed July 30, 2014.
  5. ↑ Do you also have weaknesses? In: goettinger-tageblatt.de. Retrieved September 20, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Nina Ruge, TV journalist and presenter. In: yaacool-beauty.de. Retrieved May 24, 2009 .
  7. ↑ Nina Ruge | Children and youth hospice Bethel. In: kinderhospiz-bethel.de, accessed on May 4, 2019.
  8. ↑ Prominent ambassadors. (No longer available online.) In: un-dekade-biologische-vielfalt.de. Archived from the original on January 16, 2014 ; accessed on May 4, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Nina Ruge on the energy transition. In: energieheld.de, accessed on May 4, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Ruge, Nina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German television journalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich