Nina Ruge (born 24 August 1956 in

Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by popu ...

) is a German journalist, TV presenter and author.

Early life and education

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

Braunschweig Braunschweig () or Brunswick ( , from Low German ''Brunswiek'' , Braunschweig dialect: ''Bronswiek'') is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany, north of the Harz Mountains at the farthest navigable point of the river Oker, which connects it to the Nor ...

. 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 The Technische Universität Braunschweig (unofficially University of Braunschweig – Institute of Technology), commonly referred to as TU Braunschweig, is the oldest ' (comparable to an institute of technology in the American system) in Germany. ...

to become a teacher. She passed her final exams with distinction.

Career

While she was teaching at a Gymnasium in

Wolfsburg Wolfsburg (; Eastphalian: ''Wulfsborg'') is the fifth largest city in the German state of Lower Saxony, located on the river Aller. It lies about east of Hanover and west of Berlin. Wolfsburg is famous as the location of Volkswagen AG's hea ...

from 1983 to 1987, she started to work on a

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basis for the NDR radio. In 1987 she moved to Berlin to work as script girl,

assistant director The role of an assistant director on a film includes tracking daily progress against the filming production schedule, arranging logistics, preparing daily call sheets, checking cast and crew, and maintaining order on the set. They also have to tak ...

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 ''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 (8 December 1930 – 1 February 2014) was an Austrian-born Swiss actor, who also wrote, directed and produced some of his own films. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the 1961 American film ''Judgment at Nuremberg'', h ...

Gudrun Landgrebe Gudrun Landgrebe (; born 20 June 1950) 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 appea ...

and

Mathieu Carrière Mathieu Carrière (; born 2 August 1950) is a German actor. Life Carrière grew up in Berlin and Lübeck; he attended the Jesuit boarding school in Vannes, France, a school which had previously been attended by the director of Carrière's fir ...

. Nina Ruge has also been an entrepreneur since 2020. Together with her husband, top manager

Wolfgang Reitzle Hans Wolfgang Reitzle (born 7 March 1949 in Neu-Ulm) is a German business executive. Early life and education After leaving his school in Ulm, Reitzle continued his education at the Technical University of Munich where he studied mechanical ...

, and Swiss billionaire Michael Pieper she has invested in the biotech startup Tomorrowlabs GmbH. The company, which was founded in 2016 in Vienna by the physician

Dominik Duscher Dominic is a name common among Roman Catholics and other Latin-Romans as a male given name. Originally from the late Roman-Italic name "Dominicus", its translation means "Lordly", "Belonging to God" or "of the Master". Variations include: Domini ...

and pharmacologist

Dominik Thor Dominic is a name common among Roman Catholics and other Latin-Romans as a male given name. Originally from the late Roman-Italic name "Dominicus", its translation means "Lordly", "Belonging to God" or "of the Master". Variations include: Domini ...

, is based on the patent-pending HSF ( "HIF strengthening factor") active ingredient, which is supposed to promote skin and hair regeneration. Together with Duscher, she published in 2020 her 25th book: ''Altern wird heilbar (Curing Aging)'', a German bestseller.

Charity and honors

In addition to her work Nina Ruge is involved in a number of charities like

UNICEF UNICEF (), originally called the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund in full, now officially United Nations Children's Fund, is an agency of the United Nations responsible for providing Humanitarianism, humanitarian and Devel ...

(as

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), Felix Burda 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 also referred to as Mav(e)no(w), Maienowe (in 1242), Maienow (in 1357), Maienau, Mainowe (in 1394) and Mainaw (in 1580) is an island in Lake Constance (on the Southern shore of the Überlinger See near the city of Konstanz, Baden-Wür ...

by naming a bright orange-red

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after her.

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(19 June 2005
''Nina Ruge tauft auf Mainau eine Rose auf ihren Namen''
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Personal life

From 1995 to 1998 she was married to the TV producer Stefen Voss. In September 2001 she married

, CEO of the international company

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and she currently resides in Munich.

TV and radio work

*TV-Abenjournal (RIAS, 1988) *TV-Frühstückfernsehen (RIAS, 1988–1991) *heute journal (

ZDF ZDF (, short for Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen; ; "Second German Television") is a German public-service television broadcaster based in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate. It is run as an independent nonprofit institution, which was founded by all fe ...

, 1989–1994) *Sonntagsshow (

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, 1991 – ?) *Pep (3Sat, 1991 – ?) *Tagesgespräch (3Sat, 1991 – ?) *Newsquiz (3Sat, 1992 – ?) *Standpunkte (

Deutsche Welle Deutsche Welle (; "German Wave" in English), abbreviated to DW, is a German public, state-owned international broadcaster funded by the German federal tax budget. The service is available in 32 languages. DW's satellite television service con ...

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, 2000 – ?) *Alles wird gut (ZDF, 2007 – ?) *nina.ruge.mode (ZDF, 2007 – ?)

Books

*Achtung Aufnahme. Erfolgsgeheimnisse prominenter Fernsehmoderatoren (with Stefan Wachtel, 1997, Econ) *Mira May und das Zauberhandy (January 2002, Baumhaus Medien) *Alles wird gut. Beflügelnde Worte (July 2002, Marion von Schröder Verlag) *Mein persönliches 'Alles wird gut' Buch (September 2003, Ehrenwirth) *Lucy im Zaubergarten (2003, Heyne) *Alles wird gut. 52 Streicheleinheiten für die Seele (with Margaretha Höbener, March 2004, Heyne) *Heilpflanzen. Blüten, Tee und Zauberkraft (June 2004, Kinderleicht Wissen), *Alles wird gut (December 2004, Ullstein) *Alles wird gut in der Liebe (February 2005, Ehrenwirth) *Alles wird gut im Job (September 2005, Ehrenwirth) *Keine Angst vor großen Köchen (with Michael Wissing, November 2005, Christian) *Das Geheimnis der Selbstheilung. Wege zu einem starken Immunsystem (with Lutz Bannasch, March 2006, Ullstein) *Nina Ruge erzählt die schönsten biblischen Geschichten (with Katja Pagel, September 2006, Gütersloher Verlagshaus) *Liebeszauber (with Elmar Bartel, January 2007, Ehrenwirth Verlag) *Altern wird heilbar: Jung bleiben mit der Kraft der drei Zellkompetenzen (with

, June 2020, Graefe und Unzer)

References

External links

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