# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gerd-ruge
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:17:18.446Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gerd-ruge"
name: "Gerd Ruge"
slug: "gerd-ruge"
description: "Gerd Ruge was a German journalist, author and filmmaker. As a journalist he was associated with public broadcasters Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk (NWDR), ARD and WDR. Through his career spanning over 50 years, he reported from many countries including the former Soviet Union, China, the United States, and Afghanistan. He was the first German journalist with a visa to work in Yugoslavia, and the first correspondent for national television ARD in Moscow. He was ARD correspondent in the U.S. from 1964 and 1969, where he reported after the assassination of both Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy. Ruge summarised his reports in books such as Sibirisches Tagebuch and Russland: Portrait eines Nachbarn and Unterwegs: politische Erinnerungen"
tagline: "German journalist (1928–2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gerd-Ruge.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1928-08-09"
deathDate: "2021-10-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.721098666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0997898/"
    handle:    "nm0997898"
sources:
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    title: "گیرڈ روج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جيرد روغه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%87"
    title: "جيرد روجه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerd_Ruge"
    title: "Gerd Ruge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerd_Ruge"
    title: "Gerd Ruge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerd_Ruge"
    title: "Gerd Ruge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ie.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerd_Ruge"
    title: "Gerd Ruge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerd_Ruge"
    title: "Gerd Ruge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerd_Ruge"
    title: "Gerd Ruge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D1%83%D0%B3%D0%B5%2C_%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B4"
    title: "Руге, Герд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerd_Ruge"
    title: "Gerd Ruge"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q101417"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1522773"
    title: "Gerd Ruge"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump