Nazan Khol ( Üngör; born 9 May 1976), better known as Nazan Eckes, is a German television presenter.

Career

Eckes, daughter of Turkish immigrants from

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, completed her ''

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'' high school diploma in 1995 in

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, where her father was employed as a worker in a chemical and pharmaceutical company. Her internship at the music television channel

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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

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and presented the weather forecast for

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'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 ''

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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 ''

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'' 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

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, 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. 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 of 2004 and 2005. In 2006 she hosted "Let's Dance" with

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, the German version of television series ''

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''. In October 2006 she presented ''Das große TV-Quiz'', a quiz program. She also played a journalist in the German television comedy ''Crazy Race 3 – Sie knacken jedes Schloss''. In 2007, Eckes hosted the second season of ''Let’s Dance Again'' with Hape Kerkeling and also the episode ''

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- The great RTL-Special''. In 2009 and 2010, Eckes is

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's testimonial in Germany. Nazan eckes2

In 2016, Eckes partnered with

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, joining the Clinique Difference Initiative alongside six other inspiring women as Difference Makers with an aim to empower and encourage education amongst women. In 2019, Eckes took part as a candidate in ''Let’s Dance'', the RTL show she once hosted.

Personal life

She was married to Claus Eckes from February 2000 until their divorce in 2007. In June 2012, she married painter and former model Julian Khol, the youngest son of

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politician

Andreas Khol Andreas Khol (born 14 July 1941) is an Austrian politician of the centre-conservative Austrian People's Party, President of the National Council from 2002 to 2006. Andreas Khol was born in Bergen auf Rügen, Germany, and raised in the town of ...

. They have two children, both boys.

References

External links

Official websiteBiography
(archived) * {{DEFAULTSORT:Eckes, Nazan 1976 births Living people Television people from Cologne German people of Turkish descent German television personalities German film actresses Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany RTL Group people