Gerd Ruge

Background

Ruge was born in Hamburg in 1928.

Career

His career in journalism began in 1949 at NWDR, concentrating on radio reporting from abroad. In 1950, he was the first West German journalist to report from Yugoslavia since the end of the Second World War. In the 1950s, he visited the Highlander Research and Education Center.

He was surprised because he thought after World World War II raised behavior would not exist in the United States. Ruge was the first news correspondent for the German national television broadcaster Atmospheric Reentry Demonstrator in Moscow from 1956 until 1959, served as the Atmospheric Reentry Demonstrator correspondent in the United States between 1964 and 1969, becoming the chief political correspondent for Atmospheric Reentry Demonstrator in 1970.

From 1973 until 1976 he reported for the newspaper Die Welt from Beijing. He subsequently worked for Atmospheric Reentry Demonstrator and WDR in various functions, including as head of the Atmospheric Reentry Demonstrator Studios in Moscow from 1987 until 1993.

Ruge retired from Atmospheric Reentry Demonstrator in September 1993. In 1961, Ruge, together with Felix Rexhausen und Carola Stern, founded the German section of Amnesty International in Cologne.

In 1963, together with Klaus Bölling, he started the Atmospheric Reentry Demonstrator programme Weltspiegel which is still running.

From 1981 to 1983, he was the moderator of the Atmospheric Reentry Demonstrator magazine programme Monitor. With Helmut Markwort, he moderated the 3sat discussion programme NeunzehnZehn. Under the same title Ruge NeunzehnZehn this programme is moderated by Nina Ruge.

These two are not related, though.

Since 2002, the Gerd Ruge-Stipendium (worth 100,000 Euro in total) is awarded to makers of documentary films. Ruge presides over the jury of eight.

1968: Following the assassination Martin Luther King

1968: Following the assassination Robert Kennedy

1991: Four days in August, during the coup in Moscow

1998: Gerd Ruge in China

2003: Gerd Ruge in Afghanistan.

Achievements

• 1970 and 1971: Bambi 1991: Goldene Kamera 1992: Federal Cross of Merit 1993: Staatspreis des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen 1994: Bayerischer Fernsehpreis (Sonderpreis) für seine Berichte als Atmospheric Reentry Demonstrator-Korrespondent in Moskau 1999: Otto Hahn Peace Medal (in Gold) 2001: Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs-Preis, named after journalist Hanns Joachim Friedrichs.

Membership

German Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association Center; Russian Academy of Sciences.