Nazan Eckes

Nazan Eckes ( born May 9, 1976 in Cologne as Nazan Üngör ) is a German -Turkish television presenter at the television station RTL.

Career

Nazan Eckes is the daughter of Turkish immigrants from Eskişehir. After graduating from high school in 1995 in Leverkusen, she completed an internship and a 18-month internship at the music channel VIVA, which hired them firmly in 1998. From 1998 to 1999 she was a freelance Turkish local newspaper Haftalık Posta. In 1999 she took over the weather moderating the local magazine Guten Abend RTL. At RTL West, she hosted from 2000 onwards the weather and worked as a reporter for the local magazine. As of January 2001, she hosted RTL II News. Together with Kai Ebel Eckes hosted the magazine exclusive formula.

As of 2004, Eckes was a presenter for Life! - The desire to live and acted as moderator at the Bosporus Trend and RTL II Year in Review. With Hape Kerkeling she hosted in 2006 and 2007, Let's Dance, in 2010 on the side of Daniel Hartwich.

Since 2005, Eckes moderated Saturdays explosive weekend, the weekly edition of RTL magazine explosives. From 2007 to 2009 she was a presenter at RTL Mittagsmagazin point 12 Together with Oliver goats Eckes hosted the Echo Awards 2008.

In her book, Good Morning, West Eckes describes life in an immigrant family. In an interview she said when asked whether they used constantly between two worlds is back and hergesprungen: "It is impossible, when you grow up in two cultures define themselves. "

Eckes hosted two pilot episodes of the game show The Cube - Defeat the dice that were broadcast on 29 April 2011 and on 10 June 2011 in Germany on RTL! .

Together with Marco Schreyl moderated Eckes 2011 the German Television Award.

In 2013, she hosted along with Raúl judge the tenth season of Germany sucht den Superstar and June with Marco Schreyl The Pool Champions - Celebrities under water.

Nazan Eckes is a member of the Advisory Board of the Federal Government Commissioner for Migration, Refugees and Integration since 2011. In March 2012, she was awarded for services to the German -Turkish relations " Plattino " award.

Furthermore, Nazan Eckes is committed to charitable causes, in October 2010, she is the patron of Cologne Ronald McDonald House. As an ambassador of the German Bone Marrow Donor Center (DKMS ) she wants above all Turkish people convince themselves of the stem cell donation. In 2011 she was seen on billboards nationwide DKMS; since it is used as a testimonial in print ads. As a reading ambassador of Reading Foundation, she promotes, among others, in RTL TV spots for reading.

Moderations

Private life

Nazan Eckes was married from 2000 to 2007 with the advertising entrepreneur Claus Eckes. On June 30, 2012, she married the Austrian painter Julian Khol, a son of the Austrian People's Party politician Andreas Khol.