Nadja Tiller
Nadja Tiller (born March 16, 1929 in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian actress. She was one of the most popular Austrian actresses of international films of the 1950s and 1960s.[1]
Nadja Tiller | |
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| Born | March 16, 1929 |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1949–2005 |
| Spouse(s) | Walter Giller (1956–2011) (his death) |
She won the Miss Austria competition in 1949,[1] a national beauty pageant for unmarried women in Austria. She had her major film debut in 1952 in Märchen vom Glück (Good Luck Fairytale).[1]
In 1955, she acted opposite O.W. Fischer in the film Ich suche Dich, based on a play by A.J. Cronin. Her international breakthrough role was that of Rosemarie Nitribitt in the 1958 German movie Rosemary (1958).[2]
Family
Tiller married actor Walter Giller in 1956; they had a son and a daughter. Giller died of cancer in 2011, aged 84.
Selected filmography
- Kiss Me Casanova (1949)
- Kleiner Schwindel am Wolfgangsee (1949)
- Child of the Danube (1950)
- Schäm' dich, Brigitte! (1952)
- Ich hab' mich so an Dich gewöhnt (1952)
- Illusion in a Minor Key (1952)
- The Empress of China (1953)
- To Be Without Worries (1953)
- Ein tolles Früchtchen (1953)
- Hit Parade (1953)
- Love and Trumpets (1954)
- She (1954)
- Hello, My Name is Cox (1955)
- Ball at the Savoy (1955)
- Reaching for the Stars (1955)
- The Barrings (1955)
- Mozart (1955)
- How Do I Become a Film Star? (1955)
- Ich suche Dich (1956)
- The Bath in the Barn (1956)
- Spy for Germany (1956)
- Banktresor 713 (1957)
- El Hakim (1957)
- La Tour, prends garde ! (1958)
- Le désordre et la nuit (1958)
- Rosemary (1958)
- Du rififi chez les femmes (1959)
- Labyrinth (1959)
- The Rough and the Smooth (1959)
- The Buddenbrooks (1959)
- World in My Pocket (1961)
- L'Affaire Nina B. (1961)
- Geliebte Hochstaplerin (1961)
- The Burning Court (1962)
- Lulu (1962)
- Gripsholm Castle (1963)
- Das große Liebesspiel (1963)
- Tonio Kröger (1964)
- Pleins feux sur Stanislas (1965)
- Who Wants to Sleep? (1965)
- The Upper Hand (1966)
- The Poppy Is Also a Flower (1966)
- Tender Scoundrel (1966)
- Lady Hamilton (1968)
- Death Knocks Twice (1969)
- Slap in the Face (1970)
- 11 Uhr 20 (1970, TV miniseries)
- Seventeen and Anxious (1970)
- Engel, die ihre Flügel verbrennen (1970)
- The Dead Are Alive (1972)
- The Monk (1972)
- The Silkworm (1973)
- Wanted: Babysitter (1975)
- Es muss nicht immer Kaviar sein (1977, TV miniseries)
- Sternensommer (1981, TV miniseries)
- Der Sommer des Samurai (1986)
- Pakten (1995)
- Barfuss (2005)
- Dinosaurier (2009)
Decorations and awards
- 1956: Golden Mask for best young actress
- 1959: Italian Film Awards (Biennale) for The Girl Rosemarie
- 1960: Film Award in Silver for Best Actress for Labyrinth
- 1963: Premio saci, Argentinean Film Award for Moral 63
- 1979: Film Award in Gold for many years of excellent work in the German film industry
- 1999: Platinum Romy for lifetime achievement
- 1999: Medal of the Austrian capital Vienna
- 1999: Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class[3]
- 2000: Merit Cross on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany (Verdienstkreuz am Bande)
- 2005: DIVA Award in the category "Lifetime Award (Hall of Fame)" Lifetime Achievement
- 2006: Bambi in the category "lifetime achievement"
- 2009: Askania Award for cinematic work (with Walter Giller)
References
- Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The concise Cinegraph: encyclopaedia of German cinema, pp. 476-77 (2009); ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9
- Nadja Tiller wird 80 Jahre alt (9 March 2009)
- "Reply to a parliamentary question" (pdf) (in German). p. 1288. Retrieved 27 December 2012.
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