Status: 02/21/2023 11:18 a.m
The well-known actress Nadja Tiller died at the age of 93. This was reported by the “Bild” newspaper, citing her daughter Natascha Giller. Tiller celebrated her international breakthrough as Nitribitt in the film “The Girl Rosemarie”.
For more than five decades, Nadja Tiller was considered the model of German-language film. According to a report in the “Bild” newspaper, the native Austrian has now died at the age of 93. Her daughter Natascha Giller told the newspaper: “My mother died last night in the Augustinum in Hamburg. She fell asleep peacefully in the presence of a nurse.” Tiller had spent her last years in the “Augustinum” retirement home on the Elbe.
Roles in more than 120 films and series
In 1958, Tiller celebrated her international breakthrough as an actress with her role as Nitribitt in “Das Mädchen Rosemarie”. She embodied a luxury call girl in the film and was then considered one of the most beautiful and erotic women on the European film scene.
Actress Nadja Tiller died at the age of 93
Jennifer Johnston, NDR, daily news at 12:00 p.m., February 21, 2023
Tiller starred in more than 120 films and series, filmed with colleagues such as Mario Adorf, Yul Brynner and Jean-Paul Belmondo. From the late 1940s to the mid 1960s she acted in numerous major films, including ‘Illusion in Minor’ (1952) and ‘Schloss Gripsholm’ (1963).
She was also in demand in non-German-speaking countries and worked, for example, in 1962 on Roberto Rossellini’s “Anima nera”.
Marriage to Walter Giller
In later decades, Tiller worked mainly for television, starring in “The Amber Amulet” around 2003. From time to time she worked together with her husband, the actor Walter Giller. The two married in 1956 and remained a couple until Giller’s death in 2011. They had two children and four grandchildren.
The actor couple was considered a dream couple in the 1950s and 1960s. Tiller had lived with her husband in Castagnola near Lugano since the late 1950s. On November 30, 2006, both received a Bambi for their life’s work.
In 2004 the couple moved to the “Augustinum” retirement home in Hamburg. Giller succumbed to cancer on December 15, 2011. Tiller was always on theatrical stages well into old age.