Damla Hekimoğlu

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Damla Hekimoğlu (born May 18 in Stolberg ) is a news editor, live reporter, television presenter and investigative journalist . She works for the Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln in the WDR newsroom for the current hour and for the research network WDR, NDR and Süddeutsche Zeitung . She also moderates live broadcasts at Phoenix .

Life

Damla Hekimoğlu grew up in the Eifel . She obtained a Master of Arts from Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf and spent a summer semester at Harvard University in the USA.

social commitment

On the board of the Harvard Club Rhein-Main, she volunteers for education and the promotion of young talent. The dialogue project "Meet me!" by Tagesschau spokesman Constantin Schreiber , together with television journalists Susanne Daubner and Aline Abboud . Since the Corona - pandemic it also facilitates the crisis-ridden everyday families by at 10:30 she reads every day on their YouTube channel stories. In an interview with WDR3 she said about her solidarity campaign that not only children but also adults listen to her stories and so slow down.

Professional background

In 2013, Hekimoglu started an online talk show on YouTube. At that time, she also moderated bilingual panel discussions and events, including a. with Dan Aykroyd , Benjamin Friedman and Aydan Özoguz .

She conducted investigative research for the research network NDR, WDR and Süddeutsche Zeitung as well as for the current hour . Hekimoglu published a. a. in the Süddeutsche Zeitung and on Tagesschau.de . For the local time from Düsseldorf she worked as a television writer, reporter and video journalist.

Hekimoğlu completed her journalistic traineeship (WDR program traineeship) at WDR, including assignments in the ARD capital studio in Berlin and in the ARD studio in Brussels. Here she also reported as an Instagram host for the channels of the ARD Studio Brussels and the Tagesschau from the European Parliaments in Brussels and Strasbourg. During this time she also presented news for children at KiRaKa and reported as a reporter on air for the BBC World News in English on the Staufen abuse scandal. She also stood in front of the camera for the daily news format “Pro & Contra”. During her traineeship she had her first TV presentation at Phoenix and WDR. For the online broadcast "The Sheriff live and uncensored" of the WDR world record attempt, she hosted several hours live. Damla Hekimoğlu was also the co-presenter with Helge Fuhst and Michael Kolz of the phoenix broadcast on the European elections and the Bremen citizenship elections on May 26, 2019.

Since 2016 she has moderated the "Harvard Club Talks", a talk format at Harvard University that she herself launched. The talk show is streamed live on the Harvard network. She gave a speech at Harvard about this for the Harvard Alumni Association

After completing the internship, Hekimoğlu was taken on by WDR as a live reporter and editor. She works in the newsroom of WDR in the topicality and moderates at Phoenix.

Private

Her parents come from Turkey, the father is a dentist. Her brother is the computer game developer Onat Hekimoğlu .

languages

Damla Hekimoğlu grew up bilingually speaking German and Turkish. She is fluent in English, as well as French and Spanish.

Awards and nominations

Jury memberships

Damla Hekimoğlu has been a member of the jury of the WDR program volunteer service and the Harvard Scholarship Foundation eV “Road to Harvard” for Harvard scholarships since 2019 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Damla Hekimoglu (HSS'13) | Harvard Club Rhein-Main. Retrieved May 5, 2019 .
  2. ↑ ARD journalist founds Foundation for Tolerance. August 26, 2019, accessed September 6, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Auxiliary culture: Solidarity is also contagious. March 19, 2020, accessed March 19, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Damla Hekimoğlu: [ENG] Damla Hekimoglu | Talk with US economist Prof. M. Benjamin Friedman, Harvard University. November 23, 2015, accessed May 27, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Artrevolver: Integration needs role models! Retrieved May 5, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Boris Baumholt, Damla Hekimoglu and Katja Riedel: Search for jihadists from Mönchengladbach. Retrieved May 5, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Damla Hekimoğlu. March 9, 2017, accessed May 5, 2019 .
  8. ↑ tagesschau.de: Pro & Contra mandatory vaccination in daycare centers. Retrieved May 5, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Daily routine on Sunday - The sheriff presents: live and unfiltered. September 24, 2018, accessed May 5, 2019 .
  10. ↑ phoenix. Retrieved May 17, 2019 .
  11. ^ Harvard Club Rhein-Main. Retrieved May 5, 2019 .
  12. ^ Alumni Leadership Conference. Retrieved May 5, 2019 .
  13. ↑ http://remote.grenzecho.net/epaper/grenzecho/1978/01/02.pdf?page=11
  14. ↑ Mitch Wallace: Stop Motion Inspired Adventure Game 'Harold Halibut' Is On Kickstarter And It Looks Incredible. Accessed May 5, 2019 .
  15. ↑ CASIO school calculator - 12th Vektoria Award - review. Retrieved May 5, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Medium Magazin Journalists of the Year 2015. Retrieved on May 5, 2019 .


personal data
SURNAME Damla Hekimoğlu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Moderator and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 18
PLACE OF BIRTH Stolberg