Overview
- Nazan Eckes discussed her post‑RTL life in a Welt am Sonntag interview published Sunday, describing the interview as a personal account on the occasion of her 50th birthday.
- She says she left RTL in 2022 after fulfilling existing contracts because several pressures converged, including her father’s worsening Alzheimer’s, the breakdown of her partnership with Julian Khol, and a growing inner distance from on‑camera work.
- Eckes reports she experienced real physical distress from performing on camera, saying she sometimes had stomach pains on days she had to present, and that returning to work after a difficult first birth was emotionally traumatic.
- She spent the year after leaving the screen deliberately out of the public eye and has lived on Mallorca with her two sons, now eight and ten, which she calls ‘incredibly healing.’
- Eckes recalls a past culture of strict external control over presenters’ appearance and neutrality, and she says any return to television would be selective and limited to projects that personally and substantively interest her, a stance that could broaden public discussion about presenter wellbeing and work conditions.