Erkan Arıkan
Erkan Arıkan (born February 13, 1969 in Bandırma , Turkey ) is a German television presenter of Turkish descent and has been head of the Turkish editorial team at Deutsche Welle since November 2018 .
Life
In 1970, at the age of one , he moved to Germany with his parents, then so-called guest workers . While studying law at the Free University of Berlin , Arıkan was initially an editor and presenter at the private radio broadcaster Kiss FM , after which he started as the editor in charge of the satirical magazine Nachschlag . After a traineeship at n-tv , he worked as a news editor and presenter at the station. Erkan Arikan was the first Turkish-born news presenter on German television in January 2001.
In 2004 he completed the part -time course in journalism training at the journalism college of the Free University of Berlin. He became the editor-in-chief of the Turkish editorial team in the WDR's Funkhaus Europa . From mid-January 2008 to the end of 2012 he worked as an editor at ARD-aktuell in Hamburg. Among other things, he performed various activities at the TV station tagesschau24 .
Previously, he was also seen as a moderator of discussions on the public television channel Phoenix . In addition, he was u. a. to be seen in the ARD broadcast Press Club .
Works
- with Murat Ham : Young, successful, Turkish. A slightly different portrait of migrants in Germany. Ehrenwirth, Bergisch Gladbach 2009, ISBN 978-3-431-03788-3 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Erkan Arıkan in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and reviews of works by Erkan Arıkan at perlentaucher.de
- Website Erkan Arikan
Individual evidence
- ^ Deutsche Welle (www.dw.com): Erkan Arikan new head of the Turkish editorial team | DW | October 16, 2018. Retrieved May 17, 2019 (German).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Arıkan, Erkan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German television presenter of Turkish descent |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 13, 1969 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bandırma , Turkey |