Nadja Tiller
Nadja Tiller (born 16 March 1929 in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian actress. She was one of the most popular German-speaking actresses of international films of the 1950s and 1960s. Biography. Nadja Tiller, daughter of actor Anton Tiller of Vienna and his wife Erika Tiller (1902-1979) (formerly Erika Körner), an opera singer and actress from Danzig, attended a Realgymnasium secondary school in Vienna. In 1945 she began her studies at the Max-Reinhardt-Seminar, which she later continued until 1949 at the Musik- und Schauspielakademie. In the same year she became an ensemble member at the  Theater in der Josefstadt. She won the Miss Austria competition in 1949, a national beauty pageant for unmarried women in Austria. She had her major film debut in 1952 in "Märchen vom Glück" (Good Luck Fairytale). 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). She appeared in over 70 films, including many international productions. She performed with, among others, O. W. Fischer, Curd Jürgens, Hansjörg Felmy, Mario Adorf, Jean Gabin , Yul Brynner, Robert Mitchum, Rod Steiger, Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Marais, and at the height of her career was considered along with Sophia Loren to be among the most erotic women in European film. In 1967 and 1968 she appeared in the play Jedermann (Everyman) at the annual Salzburg Festival. In the 1970s and 1980s she had fixed theater engagements in Lübeck, Berlin and Vienna. In Lübeck (1976) and in Vienna (1981), she played the lead female role in the Kurt-Weill-musical "Lady in the Dark." In the 1980s she promoted the Mon Chéri line of pralines produced  by Italian manufacturer Ferrero. Until the late 1990s, she appeared in boulevard plays. In 1997 at the Hamburger Kammerspielen and in guest performances, she played the aging Joan Crawford in the play "Besuch bei Joan" by Cas Enklaar, which with co-star Andreas Brucker and under the direction of Horst Königstein was filmed for television the following year. Subsequently, she played occasional leading roles and made guest appearances in various television productions. After a long absence from the cinema, she was cast in 2005 by Til Schweiger in his Roadmovie "Barfuss" and in 2009 by Leander Haußmann in his film  comedy "Dinosaurier - Gegen uns seht ihr alt aus!". From September — October 2010, Nadja Tiller made a guest appearance in the role of the "greatest diva of all time" in Schorsch Kamerun's production of the play "Vor uns die Sintflut" at the Thalia Theater Tent in Hamburg's Hafencity. From January — April 2015, she appeared in the musical "My Fair Lady" as Mrs. Higgins at the Staatstheater Braunschweig, a role she repeated in the 2015/16 season. Nadja Tiller and her husband Walter Giller jointly received a Bambi for their life's work on November 30, 2006. In mid-March 2008 , they moved into the Augustinum retirement home in Hamburg. Family. Tiller married actor Walter Giller in 1956; they had a son (b. 1964) and a daughter (b. 1959). Giller died of cancer on 15 December 2011, aged 84. Selected filmography. Cameo appearances