Full Name Nina Ruge Name Nina Ruge | Notable credit(s) Leute heute Role Journalist | |
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Similar People Wolfgang Reitzle, Jutta Speidel, Sabine Sauer, Gerd Ruge, Karen Webb | ||
Nina Ruge (born 24 August 1956 in Munich, Germany) is a German journalist, TV presenter and author.
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Early life and education
Ruge is the daughter of an engineering professor and visited the Ina-Seidel-Schule in Braunschweig. Her sister Annette is an aeromedical doctor at the European Aviation Safety Agency in Cologne. After finishing high school at the age of 17 she studied biology and German language and literature at the TU Braunschweig to become a teacher. She passed her final exams with distinction.
Career
While she was teaching at a Gymnasium in Wolfsburg from 1983 to 1987, she started to work on a freelance basis for the NDR radio. In 1987 she moved to Berlin to work as script girl, assistant director of a number of TV and film productions and editorial assistant with the SFB family program.
In 1988 she was one of the editors who was involved in setting up RIAS-TV where she presented the evening news program Abendschau and later the breakfast TV show Fruhstuckfernsehen. Several times during her career she took the risk to leave established shows for new productions where she had more influence, like her move from the well established heute journal to the heute nacht news show. Her daily lifestyle magazine Leute heute became very successful after it was at first less popular than expected and in 1995 the 2000th episode was shown. Ruge finished nearly every edition of her show Leute heute with the quote Alles wird gut (Everything will turn out fine) which became her trademark and which she also used for some of her book titles. In November 2006 Ruge announced to end her work for Leute heute on 3 February 2007 in order to have more time for her private life.
In the 1999 cinema film Wer liebt, dem wachsen Flugel (On the Wings of Love) Nina Ruge appeared in the role of Clarissa together with Maximilian Schell, Gudrun Landgrebe and Mathieu Carriere.
Charity and honors
In addition to her work Nina Ruge is involved in a number of charities like UNICEF (as Goodwill Ambassador), Felix Burda Stiftung - Darmkrebs Pravention and Rosenthal - Porzellan "Charity - Teller". She is also the patron of the "Netzwerk von und fur Frauen und Madchen mit Behinderungen in Bayern".
In 2005 Nina Ruge was honored on the island Mainau by naming a bright orange-red rose after her.
Personal life
From 1995 to 1998 she was married to the TV producer Stefen Voss. In September 2001 she married Professor Dr. Wolfgang Reitzle, CEO of the international company Linde AG and she currently resides in Munich.
TV and radio work
