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- Birth nameOttilie Godeffroy
- Tilla Durieux was born on August 18, 1880 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. She was an actress and writer, known for Verdammt zur Sünde (1964), Le dernier pont (1954) and Résurrection (1958). She was married to Ludwig Katzenellenbogen, Paul Cassirer and Eugene Spiro. She died on February 21, 1971 in West Berlin, West Germany.
- SpousesLudwig Katzenellenbogen(1930 - 1944) (his death)Paul Cassirer(1910 - January 7, 1926) (his death)Eugene Spiro(1904 - 1906) (divorced)
- Durieux unsuccessfully tried to obtain visa for the United States; in 1941 her husband Ludwig Katzenellenbogen was arrested by Gestapo agents in Thessaloniki and deported to Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where he was killed in 1944.
- Durieux was the first to perform Oscar Wilde's Salome on the stage and also the first Eliza Doolittle in Shaw's "Pygmalion".
- The Zagreb period (1934-1952) was a refuge, peace and respite before new trials. In the foyer of the Croatian National Theatre (CNT) she met Zlata Lubienski and from 1938 dwelled in Jurjevska Street, at number 27.
- 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.
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