Nadja Tiller

Nadja Tiller (16 March 1929 – 21 February 2023) was an Austrian actress in film, television, and on stage. She was one of the most popular German-speaking actresses in the international cinema of the 1950s and 1960s, receiving international recognition when she played the title role in the 1958 film Das Mädchen Rosemarie (Rosemary) in 1958, shown at the Venice Film Festival. It opened the way to international films. She often played alongside her husband, Walter Giller.

Early life and background Tiller was born in Vienna on 16 March 1929, the daughter of actor Anton Tiller of Vienna and his wife (1902–1979), an opera singer and actress from Danzig. She attended there a Realgymnasium secondary school. In 1945 she began her studies at the Max-Reinhardt-Seminar, which she later continued until 1949 at the Musik- und Schauspielakademie, studying dance, ballet, and acting. She became an ensemble member at the Theater in der Josefstadt in 1949. That year she won the Miss Austria competition, a national beauty pageant for unmarried women in Austria. She met her future husband Walter Giller in 1953; they became the German Traumpaar (dream couple) in many productions to come. Tiller had her artistic breakthrough in the 1955 film Die Barrings, directed by Rolf Thiele,

In 1955, she acted opposite O. W. Fischer again in the film Ich suche Dich, based on a play by A. J. Cronin. Her international breakthrough role was Rosemarie Nitribitt in the 1958 German film Das Mädchen Rosemarie (Rosemary) in 1958, again directed by Thiele. including several international productions. She performed with partners such as Curd Jürgens, Hansjörg Felmy, Yul Brynner, Robert Mitchum, Rod Steiger, and Jean Marais, and at the height of her career was considered along with Sophia Loren to be among the most alluring women in European film.

In 1967 and 1968, she appeared on the open stage at Salzburg Festival in the annual play, Hofmannsthal's Jedermann (Everyman), as the Buhlschaft.

Personal life Nadja Tiller married actor Walter Giller in 1956; they had a son (born 1964) and a daughter (born 1959). In March 2008, they moved into the Augustinum retirement home in Hamburg.

Films Films with Tiller include: 1999: , medal of the Austrian capital Vienna 1999: Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class 2000: Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 2009: for cinematic work (with Giller)