Foto: Siegmund Labisch (1863-1942)

1880 - 1971

During World War I she worked as a nurse, after the war she continued her successful theater career. It followed entrances in New York and in whole Germany.

In the silent movie era she made her debut already in 1914 with "Der Flug in die Sonne", which followed the movies "Die Launen einer Weltdame/Königin der Laune" (14) and "Nahira - Die Hand am Vorhang" (15). In the next years she played only sporadically in movies, so in "Die Verschleierte" (20), "Prinz Karneval" (23) and "Frau im Mond" (29).

After that she attended again exclusively for the theater. She got married with the industrialist Ludwig Katzenellenbogen in 1930 and they had to emigrate from Germany in 1933. From now on she played in Zurich, Prague and Vienna, later also in Budapest and Paris.
When the married couple tried to depart from Yugoslavia in 1941, Tilla Durieux's husband was arrested and deported, he died in Oranienburg in 1944. Tilla Durieux got involved in the Yugoslav resistance movement from 1941 to 1945.

After the war she played again at the theater and also the film business won influence on the agile actress. To her best-known movies of the 50's belong "Die letzte Brücke" (53), "Anastasia, die letzte Zarentochter" (56), "Illusionen" (57), "Ihr 106. Geburtstag" (57) and "El Hakim" (57). She continued her career till to the 60's with "Als geheilt entlassen" (60), "Die Festung/Verdammt zur Sünde" (64) and "Es" (65). 
 

Other movies with Tilla Durieux:
Der zeugende Tod (20) Haschisch, das Paradies der Hölle (21) Die Stärkere (53) Die Schwestern (57) Gerichtet bei Nacht (57) Nebel (57) Von allen geliebt (57) Antigone (58) Auferstehung (58) Eine fast mögliche Geschichte (58) Vergessene Gesichter (59) Labyrinth/Neurose (59) Morgen wirst Du um mich weinen (59) Ein Traumspiel (59) Langusten (60) Barbara (61) Nur eine Karaffe... (62) Achtzig im Schatten (63) Unterm Birnbaum (63) Das Fässchen (63) Haben (63) Die Schneekönigin (64) Weisse Wyandotten (65) Ein Toter braucht kein Alibi (57)