Nina Ruge is a German journalist

Journalist

A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...

, TV presenter and author.

Life and work

Ruge is the daughter of an engineering professor and visited the Ina-Seidel-Schule in Braunschweig

Braunschweig

Braunschweig , is a city of 247,400 people, located in the federal-state of Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located north of the Harz mountains at the farthest navigable point of the Oker river, which connects to the North Sea via the rivers Aller and Weser....

. 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. While she was teaching at a Gymnasium

Gymnasium (school)

A gymnasium is a type of school providing secondary education in some parts of Europe, comparable to English grammar schools or sixth form colleges and U.S. college preparatory high schools. The word γυμνάσιον was used in Ancient Greece, meaning a locality for both physical and intellectual...

 in Wolfsburg

Wolfsburg

Wolfsburg is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located on the River Aller northeast of Braunschweig , and is mainly notable as the headquarters of Volkswagen AG...

 from 1983 to 1987, she started to work on a freelance

Freelancer

A freelancer, freelance worker, or freelance is somebody who is self-employed and is not committed to a particular employer long term. These workers are often represented by a company or an agency that resells their labor and that of others to its clients with or without project management and...

 basis for the NDR

Norddeutscher Rundfunk

Norddeutscher Rundfunk is a public radio and television broadcaster, based in Hamburg. In addition to the city-state of Hamburg, NDR transmits for the German states of Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Schleswig-Holstein...

 radio. In 1987 she moved to Berlin to work as script girl, assistant director

Assistant director

The role of an Assistant director include tracking daily progress against the filming production schedule, arranging logistics, preparing daily call sheets, checking cast and crew, maintaining order on the set. They also have to take care of health and safety of the crew...

 of a number of TV and film productions and editorial assistant with the SFB

Sender Freies Berlin

Sender Freies Berlin was the ARD public radio and television service for West Berlin from 1 June 1954 until 1990 and for Berlin as a whole from German reunification until 30 April 2003...

 family program.

In 1988 she was one of the editors who was involved in setting up RIAS-TV

Rundfunk im amerikanischen Sektor

RIAS was a radio and television station in the American Sector of Berlin during the Cold War. It was founded by the US occupational authorities after World War II in 1946 to provide the German population in and around Berlin with news and political reporting and was initially only broadcast on...

 where she presented the evening news program Abendschau and later the breakfast TV show Frühstückfernsehen. 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 Flügel (On the Wings of Love) Nina Ruge appeared in the role of Clarissa together with Maximilian Schell

Maximilian Schell

Maximilian Schell is an Austrian-born Swiss actor who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Judgment at Nuremberg in 1961...

, Gudrun Landgrebe

Gudrun Landgrebe

Gudrun Landgrebe is a German actress.Landgrebe was born in Göttingen, grew up in Bochum, and attended theatre school in Cologne from 1968 until 1971. In 1971 she made her debut at Stadttheater Bielefeld. She also appeared in Heimat as the character Klärchen Sisse...

 and Mathieu Carrière

Mathieu Carrière

Mathieu Carrière is a German actor.Carrière grew up in Berlin and Lübeck; he attended the Jesuit boarding school Lycée Saint-François-Xavier in Vannes, France, a school which had previously been attended by the director of Carrière's first major film, Volker Schlöndorff. In 1969 Carrière moved to...

.

In addition to her work Nina Ruge is involved in a number of charities like UNICEF (as Goodwill Ambassador), Felix Burda

Hubert Burda Media

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 Stiftung - Darmkrebs Prävention and Rosenthal - Porzellan "Charity - Teller". She is also the patron of the "Netzwerk von und für Frauen und Mädchen mit Behinderungen in Bayern".

In 2005 Nina Ruge was honored on the island Mainau

Mainau

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 by naming a bright orange-red rose

Rose

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 after her.

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

• tv-Abenjournal (RIAS, 1988)
• tv-Frühstückfernsehen (RIAS, 1988–1991)
• heute journal (ZDF
  ZDF
  Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen , ZDF, is a public-service German television broadcaster based in Mainz . It is run as an independent non-profit institution, which was founded by the German federal states . The ZDF is financed by television licence fees called GEZ and advertising revenues...
  
  , 1989–1994)
• Sonntagsshow (3Sat
  3sat
  3sat is the name of a public, advertising-free, television network in Central Europe. The programming is in German and is broadcast primarily within Germany, Austria and Switzerland .3sat was established for cultural...
  
  , 1991 - ?)
• Pep (3Sat, 1991 - ?)
• Tagesgespräch (3Sat, 1991 - ?)
• Newsquiz (3Sat, 1992 - ?)
• Standpunkte (Deutsche Welle
  Deutsche Welle
  Deutsche Welle or DW, is Germany's international broadcaster. The service is aimed at the overseas market. It broadcasts news and information on shortwave, Internet and satellite radio on 98.7 DZFE in 30 languages . It has a satellite television service , that is available in four languages, and...
  
   TV)
• Boulevard Deutschland (Deutsche Welle TV)
• DW-Journal (Deutsche Welle TV, 1994 - ?)
• heute nacht (ZDF, 1994–1997)
• tele-zoo (ZDF, 1994–1997)
• 19-zehn (3Sat, 1996–2003)
• Classic cuts (3Sat, 1997 - ?)
• Leute heute (ZDF, 1997–2007)
• Klassik Leute (Klassik Radio
  Klassik Radio
  Klassik Radio is a radio station in Germany. It specialises in classical music, Film music and Lounge music. The channel is receivable in over 300 German cities via FM, throughout Germany via cable, and in Europe via satellite. It is also worldwide streamed on the internet...
  
  , 2000 - ?)
• Alles wird gut (ZDF, 2007 - ?)
• nina.ruge.mode (ZDF, 2007 - ?)

Books

• Achtung Aufnahme. Erfolgsgeheimnisse prominenter Fernsehmoderatoren (with Stefan Wachtel, 1997, Econ) ISBN 3-430-17872-X
• Mira May und das Zauberhandy (January 2002, Baumhaus Medien) ISBN 3-8315-0226-9
• Alles wird gut. Beflügelnde Worte (July 2002, Marion von Schröder Verlag) ISBN 3-547-77884-0
• Mein persönliches 'Alles wird gut' Buch (September 2003, Ehrenwirth) ISBN 3-431-03134-X
• Lucy im Zaubergarten (2003, Heyne) ISBN 3-453-87127-8
• Alles wird gut. 52 Streicheleinheiten für die Seele (with Margaretha Höbener, March 2004, Heyne) ISBN 3-453-88002-1
• Heilpflanzen. Blüten, Tee und Zauberkraft (June 2004, Kinderleicht Wissen), ISBN 3-937810-03-X
• Alles wird gut (December 2004, Ullstein) ISBN 3-453-87002-6
• Alles wird gut in der Liebe (February 2005, Ehrenwirth) ISBN 3-431-03630-9
• Alles wird gut im Job (September 2005, Ehrenwirth) ISBN 3-431-03641-4
• Keine Angst vor großen Köchen (with Michael Wissing, November 2005, Christian) ISBN 3-88472-698-6
• Das Geheimnis der Selbstheilung. Wege zu einem starken Immunsystem (with Lutz Bannasch, March 2006, Ullstein) ISBN 3-550-07870-6
• Nina Ruge erzählt die schönsten biblischen Geschichten (with Katja Pagel, September 2006, Gütersloher Verlagshaus) ISBN 3-579-06712-5
• Liebeszauber (with Elmar Bartel, January 2007, Ehrenwirth Verlag) ISBN 3-431-03691-0