Nadja Tiller

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.
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, 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).

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 (de) (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 (de) (1959)
• World in My Pocket (1961)
• L'Affaire Nina B. (fr) (1961)
• Geliebte Hochstaplerin (1961)
• The Burning Court (1962)
• No Orchids for Lulu (1962)
• Schloß Gripsholm (de) (1963)
• Das große Liebesspiel (de) (1963)
• Tonio Kröger (1964)
• Pleins feux sur Stanislas (1965)
• Who Wants to Sleep? (1965)
• The Upper Hand (1966)
• The Poppy Is Also a Flower (1966)
• Tendre Voyou (1966)
• Lady Hamilton (1969)
• Death Knocks Twice (1969)
• Ohrfeigen (de) (1970)
• The Dead Are Alive (1972)
• Wanted: Babysitter (1975)
• Es muss nicht immer Kaviar sein (1977) (TV series)
• Der Sommer des Samurai (de) (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
• 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)

• "Reply to a parliamentary question" (pdf) (in German). p. 1288. Retrieved 27 December 2012.