Walter Giller

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Walter Giller (1955)
Spy for Germany (1956), movie poster by Helmuth Ellgaard : Walter Giller (front left) and Martin Held (right)
The Acting Couple Nadja Tiller and Walter Giller (2009)

Walter Giller (born  August 23, 1927 in Recklinghausen ; † December 15, 2011 in Hamburg ) was a German actor .

Life

Grew up as the son of the pediatrician Walter Giller and his wife Edwine, geb. Röver, in Hamburg, the high school student was drafted as a flak helper in early 1943 . After being a prisoner of war, he first began studying medicine. However, Giller then decided to become an actor. After an internship and assistant director at the Hamburger Kammerspiele with Ida Ehre , he got his first theater role in Thornton Wilder's We Got Off Again in 1947 . He took acting lessons from Eduard Marks in Hamburg .

From 1948 Giller received his first small film roles. He played his first leading role in 1951 in the film Primanerinnen . Giller became a familiar face in German cinema of the 1950s. Sometimes weird, sometimes shy, but always nice and never abusive, he represented the young man next door in numerous productions. He rarely had the opportunity to prove his great potential as a character actor. He played alongside Heinz Rühmann in Der Hauptmann von Köpenick (1956), alongside Martin Held in Spion für Deutschland (1956) and Rosen for the Public Prosecutor (1959, Federal Film Prize) and with Hardy Krüger in Zwei unter Millions (1961, also Federal Film Prize).

In the 1960s, Giller was mainly involved in some of the then popular crime, adventure and drama films, while in the 1970s he switched entirely to television roles. With Peter Frankenfeld as a sketch partner, he often played drunk bar-goers. He also intensified his theater work again and performed mainly on tours. He also emerged as the author of two children's books: Funny stories by Natascha and Jan (1968) and Walter Giller tells stories about good night (1969). Walter Giller played a leading role alongside Michael Nowka and Wolfgang Völz , directed by Dietrich Haugk, in the award-winning television game The Borrowed Christmas Tree . In the 1980s, Giller gave his voice as the narrator in the 12-part children's radio play series Schubiduu..uh by Peter Riesenburg .

Walter Giller and Nadja Tiller , with whom he had been married since February 5, 1956, were considered a dream couple in the 1950s and 1960s and often stood together in front of the camera until the end; Giller lived with his wife in Castagnola near Lugano since the late 1950s . On November 30th, 2006 they received a Bambi for their life's work. The marriage resulted in a daughter (* 1959) and a son (* 1964). Since the middle of March 2008, Giller lived with his wife in the Augustinum Hamburg .

Walter Giller died at the age of 84 in a Hamburg clinic of complications from cancer . He has had lung cancer since at least the end of 2008 . Giller was in the North Sea in Büsum buried .

Filmography

Radio plays

Awards

literature

  • Walter Giller, Ruth Michelly (illustrator): Funny stories of Natasha and Jan . Schneider, Munich 1968. [Young people's book]
  • Walter Giller tells good night stories . Illustrated by Ruth Michelly. Schneider, Munich / Vienna 1969.
  • Walter Giller: Easy from the stool . Funny skits to replay. Falken, Niedernhausen 1986, ISBN 3-8068-4262-0 .

Web links

Commons : Walter Giller  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b On the death of Walter Giller - character man in a world that is far too intact . In: sueddeutsche.de of December 16, 2011, accessed on December 16, 2011
  2. Nadja Tiller buries her husband Walter Giller . In: BILD , accessed on May 15, 2012
  3. ^ Walter Giller in: Hersfeld Prize
  4. ^ Mathias Raabe: Clocks for Tiller and Giller . In: Berliner Zeitung , February 4, 2009.