By Tanja May, Hauke Herffs and Eileen Primus
In 1958 she became famous with the film “The Girl Rosemarie”. Now BILD learned: Acting legend Nadja Tiller is dead. She died at the age of 93.
The screen legend spent her last years in Hamburg in the noble retirement home “Augustinum”.
Natascha Giller (64), the daughter of Nadja Tiller, lives with her family in Greece and had a close relationship with her mother. She says to BILD: “My mother died last night in the “Augustinum” in Hamburg. She passed away peacefully in the presence of a nurse.”
And further: “She was not alone, we are very grateful for that as a family. The nurse called me this morning at six o’clock and informed me. I was visiting my mother last week. My brother and I are now making arrangements and will be going to Hamburg in the next two days. We will also be present in the crematorium.”
There will be a burial at sea at a later date, “that was our mother’s wish. Just like my father wanted. That can take a few months.”
Vamp, Grande Dame and “Miss Austria”
Sometimes vamp, sometimes grande dame, in 1958 the international breakthrough as the luxury call girl Nitribitt in “The Girl Rosemarie”: Nadja Tiller was considered one of the most erotic women in European film!
She acted in more than 120 films and series, filmed with colleagues such as Mario Adorf, Yul Brynner and Jean-Paul Belmondo.
In 1949, the native of Vienna was elected the first “Miss Austria”, in 1956 she married her German colleague Walter Giller (†84, “Die Drei von der gas station”, “Charley’s aunt”) – a happy marriage over 55 years.
In 2008, the celebrity couple moved from Switzerland to Hamburg, three years later Walter Giller died of cancer.
Nadja and Walter Giller in 1961 in Paris on the Champs Élysées at the Arc de Triomphe
“I try to always be healthy. A good mood helps,” said Tiller, who lives in Hamburg, three years ago, on the occasion of her 90th birthday, to BILD.
Walter Giller and his wife Nadja Tiller. The couple lived in a Hamburg retirement home Photo: Marcus Brandt dpa/lno
But in her life the acting legend had to cope with many strokes of fate. Breast cancer in 2006, the death of her husband Walter Giller († 84) in 2011, shortly afterwards a stroke. In 2020 she survived a corona disease.