Nadja Tiller

Nadja Tiller (born March 16, 1929, Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian actress. She was one of the most popular Austrian actresses of the 1950s and 1960s.^[1]

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, which is 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

• The Empress of China (1953)
• Love and Trumpets (1954)
• The Barrings (1955)
• Mozart (1955)
• Ich suche Dich (1956)
• The Bath in the Barn (1956)
• Spy for Germany (1956)
• Banktresor 713 (1957)
• La Tour, prends garde ! (1958)
• Le désordre et la nuit (1958)
• Rosemary (1958)
• Du rififi chez les femmes (1959)
• The Rough and the Smooth (1959)
• Buddenbrooks (1959)
• World in My Pocket (1961)
• L'Affaire Nina B. (1961)
• Geliebte Hochstaplerin (1961)
• The Burning Court (1962)
• No Orchids for Lulu (1962)
• Schloß Gripsholm (1963)
• Das große Liebesspiel (1963)
• Tonio Kröger (1964)
• Pleins feux sur Stanislas (1965)
• Who Wants to Sleep? (1965)
• Du rififi à Paname (1966)
• The Poppy Is Also a Flower (1966)
• Tendre Voyou (1966)
• Lady Hamilton (1969)
• Death Knocks Twice (1969)
• Ohrfeigen (1970)
• The Dead Are Alive (1972)
• Wanted: Babysitter (1975)
• Es muss nicht immer Kaviar sein (1977) (TV series)
• Der Sommer des Samurai (1986)
• Pakten (1995)
• Barfuss (2005)

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

1. 1 2 3 Bock, Hans-Michael Bock & Bergfelder, Tim. The concise Cinegraph: encyclopaedia of German cinema, pp. 476-77 (2009); ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9
2. ↑ Nadja Tiller wird 80 Jahre alt (9 March 2009)
3. ↑ "Reply to a parliamentary question" (pdf) (in German). p. 1288. Retrieved 27 December 2012. 

External links

• Nadja Tiller at the Internet Movie Database