Nazan Eckes

Nazan Eckes
Born	Nazan Üngör May 9, 1976 (1976-05-09) (age 35) Cologne, Germany
Nationality	German
Ethnicity	Turkish
Occupation	television personality
Organization	RTL II

Nazan Eckes (née Üngör) (born 9 May 1976) is a German television personality of Turkish descent at the German television channel RTL.

Professional career

In 1995 Nazan Üngör, daughter of Turkish immigrants from Eskişehir, completed her Abitur, the German final exams of high school 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 (a Volontariat) of 18 months at the same channel. In 1998, Üngör joined VIVA as a regular TV journalist. Between 1998-1999, she also worked as freelance reporter for the Turkish language regional newspaper Haftalık Posta.

In 1999 Nazan Üngör switched channels to RTL-North in Hamburg and assumed the presentation of weather forecast of the regional evening program Guten Abend RTL. The next year, she transferred to RTL-West as vice presenter of weather forecast at the local program Punkt 12. At this time, she also became a reporter.

Since 28 January 2003, Nazan regularly presents the RTL II News on workdays. That year, she hosted RTL Exclusiv and Life! - Die Lust zu leben as a vocation substitute. She also presented World Music Awards with Ole Tillmann and Deutschlands beste Doppelgänger, a look-alike-show on Saturday nights with Mike Krüger. Furthermore, Nazan Eckes hosts the program Formel Exclusiv on lifestyle, sports and Formula One with Kai Ebel.

From June 2004 on, she hosted Life! - Die Lust zu leben and also assumed presentation of Bosporus Trend and RTL II Jahresrückblick, an end-of-year review on 2004 and 2005.

In 2005, she became Frauke Ludowig's maternity leave fill-in as host of EXPLOSİV-Weekend. The next year, she hosted "Let's Dance" with Hape Kerkeling, the German version of television series Dancing with the Stars. In October of the same year, Nazan Eckes was responsible for the presentation of Das große TV-Quiz, a quiz program with the GameDisk of RTL and NORIS Entertainment. She also played in the German television comedy Crazy Race 3 – Sie knacken jedes Schloss featuring as a journalist.

In 2007, Nazan Eckes hosted the second season of Let’s Dance Again with Hape Kerkeling and also the episode Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - The great RTL-Special.

Family

Nazan and Claus Eckes, an advertiser, got to know each other during jetskiing and married in February 2000. The couple divorced in 2007. In 2008 Nazan dated Julian Khol, an Austrian Model living in Düsseldorf and son of Andreas Khol, a politician from Austria.

External links

• Nazan Eckes at the Internet Movie Database
• Personal website
• Her biography at MSC-Promotion website (German)

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Name	Eckes, Nazan
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Date of birth	9 May 1976
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