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Nadja Tiller in 2019: She was also in demand in non-German-speaking countries
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The Austrian actress Nadja Tiller is dead. She died on Tuesday night in Hamburg.
This was confirmed by a family friend, citing relatives and Tiller's daughter Natascha Giller, to the "Bild" newspaper.
"She fell asleep peacefully in the presence of a nurse," Giller said on Tuesday morning.
She did not give a cause of death.
Tiller was 93 years old.
Tiller was born in Vienna as the daughter of two actors.
After school she studied at the Max Reinhardt Seminar, and in 1949 she was elected the first »Miss Austria«.
She then worked as an actor.
From the late 1940s to the mid-1960s, she acted in numerous major films, including Illusion in Minor (1952) and Girls with a Future (1954).
Her international breakthrough came with »The Girl Rosemarie« in 1958. In this film she played the luxury call girl Rosemarie Nitribitt.
Filming with Roberto Rossellini
She was also in demand in non-German-speaking countries and worked, for example, in 1962 on Roberto Rossellini's »Black Soul«.
Tiller has also appeared in films such as Lulu, Erotica, Poppy is a Flower, Too, and Die Feuerzangenbowle.
She shot with Yul Brunner, Jean-Paul Belmondo, OW Fischer, Curd Jürgens and Mario Adorf.
In later decades, Tiller was mainly seen on television, playing around 2003 in »The Amber Amulet«.
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.
Tiller was always on theatrical stages well into old age.
Most recently, in 2009 she starred with Giller in Leander Haussmann's feature film »Dinosaurs – Against Us You Look Old«.
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