Georg Stefan Troller

Writing

Georg Stefan Troller

Born — Died

1921-12-10 — 2025-09-27

Place of birth

Vienna, Austria

Known for

Writing

Credits

60 titles

Georg Stefan Troller (10 December 1921 – 27 September 2025) was an Austrian-born German-language journalist, writer, director and screenwriter, who became a US-Citizen in WWII and finally settled in Paris in 1949, where he lived until the end of his life. Troller was born on 10 December 1921 to a Jewish family. In 1938, he fled Austria from the Nazis, first to Czechoslovakia and from there on to France, where he was interned as an enemy alien. In 1941, he obtained a visa for the United States in Marseille. His parents were able to escape via Portugal. In the United States, he was drafted into military service in 1943 and participated in the liberation and documentation of the Dachau concen…

Known for

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NDR Talk Show poster
6.6

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NDR Talk Show

1979

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Alpha Forum

1998

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7.2

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3 nach 9

1974

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6.0

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Menschen der Woche

2000

Bambi poster
9.0

The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television to personalities in the media, arts, culture, sports, and other fields "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year", both domestic and foreign. First held in 1948, it is the oldest media award in Germany. The trophy is named after Felix Salten's book Bambi, A Life in the Woods and its statuettes are in the shape of the novel's titular fawn character. They were originally made of porcelain until 1958, when the organizers switched to using gold, with the casting done by the art casting workshop of Ernst Strassacker in Süßen.

Bambi

1948

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Annual awarding of the Grimme Awards.

Grimme Award

1964

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Im Dialog

1997

Heut' abend poster
7.0

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Heut' abend

1980

Zeugen des Jahrhunderts poster
NR

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Zeugen des Jahrhunderts

1979

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Wortwechsel

1982

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Gero von Boehm begegnet...

2002

Dim Dam Dom poster
8.0

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Dim Dam Dom

1965

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phoenix persönlich

2018

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Zeil um Zehn

1990

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8.0

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Leute

1983

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Telestar

1983

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Die Besten im Westen

2005

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9.0

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Mein Kriegsende

2005

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Hollywood Profile

1998

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A documentary series by ZDF in which journalist and documentary filmmaker Georg Stefan Troller profiles and interviews people of varying degrees of fame, mostly artists.

Personenbeschreibung

1972

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Zeuge der Zeit

2017

Behind the camera

Selbstbeschreibung poster
7.0

Georg Stefan Troller, born in Vienna in 1921, crossed half of Europe as a refugee only to return with the US army in 1945 . As a filmmaker he became a chronicler of his time and with this film he engages in some bold and self-ironic navel gazing.

Selbstbeschreibung

2001

Selbstbeschreibung poster
7.0

Georg Stefan Troller, born in Vienna in 1921, crossed half of Europe as a refugee only to return with the US army in 1945 . As a filmmaker he became a chronicler of his time and with this film he engages in some bold and self-ironic navel gazing.

Selbstbeschreibung

2001

Welcome in Vienna poster
6.8

Freddy, a Viennese Jew who emigrated to New York after Hitler's invasion, and Adler, a left-wing intellectual originally from Berlin, return to Austria in 1944 as soldiers in the U.S. Army. Freddy falls in love with the daughter of a Nazi, and Adler attempts to go over to the Communist Zone. But with the advent of the Cold War and continuing anti-semitism, the idealism of both characters is shattered as they find themselves surrounded by cynicism, opportunism, and universal self-deception.

Welcome in Vienna

1986

Amok! poster
10.0

Wayne Lo is intellectually gifted, did well at school and plays the violin superbly. At Simon's Rock College in Massachusetts he shot dead two men unprovoked, injured many others and is now serving a life sentence. Troller draws a bold portrait that centres around one question: why?

Amok!

2001

Amok! poster
10.0

Wayne Lo is intellectually gifted, did well at school and plays the violin superbly. At Simon's Rock College in Massachusetts he shot dead two men unprovoked, injured many others and is now serving a life sentence. Troller draws a bold portrait that centres around one question: why?

Amok!

2001

Mord aus Liebe poster
7.0

Love, it is said, always ends fatally - either for love or for the lovers. In his highly acclaimed portrait film, Georg Stefan Troller meets people who have murdered for love - or what they thought was love. Those who strangled their partners in their sleep, attacked them with a knife or shot them, are stunned by their own actions in retrospect. It now seems incomprehensible to them that a brief moment, a moment of being out of their depth, was enough to throw them off course once and for all. With a detective's instinct, Troller delves into the perpetrators' innermost secrets. A movie about the mental abysses that gape in all of us and the longing for love that remains - for life.

Mord aus Liebe

1993

Mord aus Liebe poster
7.0

Love, it is said, always ends fatally - either for love or for the lovers. In his highly acclaimed portrait film, Georg Stefan Troller meets people who have murdered for love - or what they thought was love. Those who strangled their partners in their sleep, attacked them with a knife or shot them, are stunned by their own actions in retrospect. It now seems incomprehensible to them that a brief moment, a moment of being out of their depth, was enough to throw them off course once and for all. With a detective's instinct, Troller delves into the perpetrators' innermost secrets. A movie about the mental abysses that gape in all of us and the longing for love that remains - for life.

Mord aus Liebe

1993

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Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and author Art Spiegelman discusses his graphic novel "Maus," which chronicles how his father survived the Holocaust. Also included a journey to Auschwitz, with his wife and art director Francoise Mouly-Spiegelman.

Of Cats and Mice

1987

Love in Hollywood poster
10.0

Various Hollywood people talk about love.

Love in Hollywood

1996

Love in Hollywood poster
10.0

Various Hollywood people talk about love.

Love in Hollywood

1996

Days and Nights in Paris poster
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Reencounter with a myth. 40 years since Georg Stefan Troller reported from his adopted home in "Pariser Journal," he returns to his old haunts. A journey through time in a city of contradictions that is always reinventing itself.

Days and Nights in Paris

2004

Days and Nights in Paris poster
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Reencounter with a myth. 40 years since Georg Stefan Troller reported from his adopted home in "Pariser Journal," he returns to his old haunts. A journey through time in a city of contradictions that is always reinventing itself.

Days and Nights in Paris

2004

Gebürtig poster
4.3

A holocaust survivor now living as a respected writer in Manhattan is the only person who can identify a suspected Nazi back in his native Austria. When a beautiful reporter eager for a scoop tries to lure him back, Geburtig must decide whether to confront his past.

Gebürtig

2002

Santa Fe poster
7.8

After arriving in 1940 New York, Freddy struggles to find work. His world of refugee acquaintances includes the depressed daughter of a poet/delicatessen owner, an aging surgeon who cannot find work, and a lovable charlatan photographer.

Santa Fe

1987

Ein junger Mann aus dem Innviertel poster
10.0

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Ein junger Mann aus dem Innviertel

1973

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8.0

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Land im Todesfieber - Über Gewalt in Guatemala

1992

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8.0

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Land im Todesfieber - Über Gewalt in Guatemala

1992

Unter Deutschen poster
8.5

Documentary filmmaker Troller criss-crosses post-reunified “Transgermania” for a year, probing German identity through festivals (Carnival, Oktoberfest), films, small towns and big cities. He attends a Black–Bavarian wedding at an “animal fair,” chats with chimney sweeps, students, artists and elites (from Grass to Müller), and asks uneasy questions about unity, memory and the future - all from his outsider’s lens.

Unter Deutschen

1995

Unter Deutschen poster
8.5

Documentary filmmaker Troller criss-crosses post-reunified “Transgermania” for a year, probing German identity through festivals (Carnival, Oktoberfest), films, small towns and big cities. He attends a Black–Bavarian wedding at an “animal fair,” chats with chimney sweeps, students, artists and elites (from Grass to Müller), and asks uneasy questions about unity, memory and the future - all from his outsider’s lens.

Unter Deutschen

1995

Wolfgang Clement - Ein deutscher Politiker poster
NR

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Wolfgang Clement - Ein deutscher Politiker

1998

Wolfgang Clement - Ein deutscher Politiker poster
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Wolfgang Clement - Ein deutscher Politiker

1998

Am Rande der bewohnbaren Welt - Das Leben des Dichters Arthur Rimbaud poster
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Am Rande der bewohnbaren Welt - Das Leben des Dichters Arthur Rimbaud

1971

Am Rande der bewohnbaren Welt - Das Leben des Dichters Arthur Rimbaud poster
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Am Rande der bewohnbaren Welt - Das Leben des Dichters Arthur Rimbaud

1971

La Violencia - Gewalt in Guatemala poster
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La Violencia - Gewalt in Guatemala

1972

La Violencia - Gewalt in Guatemala poster
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La Violencia - Gewalt in Guatemala

1972

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Last chance saloon. In the high security prison of Moundsville, West Virginia, some convicted felons are tasked with getting a group of young delinquents back on the right track. A disturbing social experiment – fearlessly brought to the screen.

Begegnung im Knast

1981