Nadja Tiller

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Nadja Tiller and Walter Giller, 2009

Nadja Maria Tiller (born March 16, 1929 in Vienna ) is an Austrian actress . She is one of the best - known German-speaking film stars of the 1950s and 1960s.

biography

Nadja Tiller, daughter of the Viennese actor Anton Tiller and his wife, the operetta singer and actress Erika Körner (married Erika Tiller; 1902–1979), who came from Danzig , attended secondary school in Vienna . From 1945 she studied at the Max Reinhardt Seminar and until 1949 at the Music and Drama Academy . In the same year she became a member of the ensemble at the Theater in der Josefstadt .

Also in 1949 she won the Miss Austria election and made her film debut in Fairy Tales of Luck . Shortly afterwards she stood in front of the camera in Little Schwindel am Wolfgangsee , directed by Franz Antel . Numerous rather insignificant roles in comedies followed, until Rolf Thiele cast her in 1955 for his film Die Barrings at the side of Dieter Borsche . With this film Tiller experienced her artistic breakthrough. Ten other films followed by Thiele by 1970, for example Lulu in 1962 with Mario Adorf , OE Hasse and Hildegard Knef .

On February 5, 1956, she married the actor Walter Giller . The marriage resulted in a daughter (* 1959) and a son (* 1964).

She had her international breakthrough in 1958 in Das Mädchen Rosemarie as the actress of the Frankfurt noble whore Rosemarie Nitribitt . She has appeared in over 70 films, including many international productions. She shot with OW Fischer , Curd Jürgens , Hansjörg Felmy , Mario Adorf , Jean Gabin , Yul Brynner , Robert Mitchum , Rod Steiger , Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Marais , among others, and was considered the most erotic woman in her prime together with Sophia Loren European film.

In 1967 and 1968 she gave the indulgence in Jedermann at the Salzburg Festival . In the 1970s and 1980s she had permanent theater engagements in Lübeck, Berlin and Vienna. In 1976 she played in Lübeck and 1981 in Vienna, the female lead in the Kurt Weill - musical Lady in the Dark . In the 1980s, she advertised the Mon Chéri praline from the Italian manufacturer Ferrero . She also appeared in tabloids until the late 1990s . In 1997 she played the role of the aging Joan Crawford at the Hamburger Kammerspiele and in guest appearances in the play Nights with Joan von Cas Enklaar, which was filmed for television with her and Andreas Brucker the following year under the direction of Horst Königstein .

Since then she has been seen again in a few leading roles and variously as a guest star in television productions. After a long absence from the cinema, she was cast in 2005 by Til Schweiger in his road movie Barfuss and in 2009 by Leander Haussmann in his comedy Dinosaurier - You look old against us! .

In September / October 2010 Nadja Tiller was seen in a star guest appearance in the role of the “greatest diva of all time” in Schorsch Cameroon's production of the play Vor uns die Sintflut in the Thalia theater tent in Hamburg's Hafencity. From January 2015 to April 2015 she could be seen in the musical My Fair Lady as Mrs. Higgins at the Staatstheater Braunschweig . She also took on this role in the 2015/16 season.

Nadja Tiller and her husband Walter Giller received a Bambi for their life's work on November 30, 2006 . In mid-March 2008 they moved to the Augustinum Senior Citizens' Foundation in Hamburg. Walter Giller succumbed to cancer on December 15, 2011.

Filmography

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erika Körner in filmportal.de.
  2. ↑ See family grave at the Vienna Central Cemetery in: Graves database of the Vienna cemeteries.
  3. ↑ Nadja Tiller in filmportal.de.
  4. ^ Markenmuseum.de - Brand history: Mon Cheri. In: www.markenmuseum.de. Retrieved May 5, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Tiller, Nadja
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tiller, Nadja Maria (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-German actress
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria