Nadja Tiller
| Nadja Tiller | |
|---|---|
| Born |
March 16, 1929 Vienna, Austria |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1949-2005 |
Nadja Tiller (born March 16, 1929 in 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 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
- ↑ 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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