Nazan Eckes

Nazan Eckes

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Birth name: Nazan Ungor
Date of birth: 9 May 1976
Place of birth: Cologne, Germany
Nickname: Nazan Eckes
Height: 5′ 8″ (1.73 m)
Spouse: Claus Eckes (February 2000 – present)

Famous Quote: “I believe that as much as you take, you have to give back. It’s important not to focus on yourself too much. I think that’s what’s great about being an actress is you get to learn so many different things like that, I think sometimes it is more important to be gracious than to win.”

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Nazan Eckes
MSC Promotion GmbH
Postfach 101215
63012 Offenbach, Germany 

Biography: 

 Nazan Eckes, Bron Nazan Üngör, (9 May 1976 in Cologne, Germany) is a German television personality of Turkish descent at the German television channel RTL. Daughter of Turkish immigrants from Eskişehir, Nazan Üngör completed 1995 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 practical training at the music television channel VIVA followed a voluntary service for 18 months at the same channel. In 1998, Nazan Üngör was employed at VIVA. Between 1998-1999, she dabbled at the Turkish regional newspaper Haftalık Posta as a freelancer.

Nazan Üngör managed in 1999 to do a jump 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 became also a reporter.

Since January 28, 2003, Nazan presents regularly 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 1 with Kai Ebel.

From June 2004 on, she hosted Life! – Die Lust zu leben and assumed also die presentation of Bosporus Trend and RTL II Jahresrückblick, a retrospection on 2004 and 2005. In 2005, she assumed the pregnancy substitution of Frauke Ludowig in EXPLOSİV-Weekend. The next year, she hosted with Hape Kerkeling Let’s Dance, 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 played also in the German television comedy Crazy Race 3 – Sie knacken jedes Schloss featuring 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.

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