Nazan Eckes
German television personality
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- Nazan Khol ( née Üngör ; born 9 May 1976), better known as Nazan Eckes , is a German television presenter.
- Her internship at the music television channel VIVA was followed by a formal journalistic apprenticeship ( Volontariat ) lasting 18 months at the same channel.
- Between 1998 and 1999, she also worked as freelance reporter for the Turkish language regional newspaper Haftalık Posta .
- The next year, she presented the weather forecast in the local news program Punkt 12 .
- Since 28 January 2003, Eckes has regularly presented the RTL II News on weekdays.
Nazan Khol (née Üngör; born 9 May 1976), better known as Nazan Eckes, is a German television presenter.
Career
Eckes, daughter of Turkish immigrants from Eskişehir, completed her Abitur high school diploma in 1995 in Leverkusen, where her father was employed as a worker in a chemical and pharmaceutical company.
Her internship at the music television channel VIVA was followed by a formal journalistic apprenticeship (Volontariat) lasting 18 months at the same channel. In 1998, Eckes joined VIVA as a regular TV journalist. Between 1998 and 1999, she also worked as freelance reporter for the Turkish language regional newspaper Haftalık Posta.
In 1999, Eckes moved to Hamburg and presented the weather forecast for RTL Television's regional evening program, Guten Abend RTL. The next year, she presented the weather forecast in the local news program Punkt 12. She married Claus Eckes in 2000.
Since 28 January 2003, Eckes has regularly presented the RTL II News on weekdays. That year, she presented RTL Exclusiv and Life! – Die Lust zu leben as a stand-in for the regular presenters while they were on vacation. She also presented the World Music Awards with Ole Tillmann and Deutschlands beste Doppelgänger, a look-alike-show on Saturday nights with Mike Krüger. Eckes was briefly part of the presenting team for RTL's coverage of Formula One, presenting pieces on the city and/or country hosting the event. This was spun off into a separate programme entitled Formel Exclusiv in which she presented lifestyle and glamour themes nominally related to Formula One.
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