
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
6.6No synopsis available yet.
NDR Talk Show
1979
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Alpha Forum
1998
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3 nach 9
1974
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Menschen der Woche
2000
9.0The 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 They were originally made of porcelain until 1958, when the organizers switched to using gold, with the casting done by the art casting workshop of Ernst Strassacker in Süßen.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
Annual awarding of the Grimme Awards.
Grimme Award
1964
Film credits
2000s · 3 titles
7.0Georg 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
NRReencounter 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
Documentary about the history of German television.
Fernsehgeschichte(n). Deutsch
2007
1990s · 4 titles
10.0Various Hollywood people talk about love.
Love in Hollywood
1996
No synopsis available yet.
Land im Todesfieber - Über Gewalt in Guatemala
1992
8.5Documentary 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Wolfgang Clement - Ein deutscher Politiker
1998
1980s · 2 titles
7.8After 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
Documentary about antisemitic pogroms in Nazi Germany.
Die Feuerprobe - Novemberpogrom 1938
1988
Series credits
6.6No synopsis available yet.
NDR Talk Show
1979
No synopsis available yet.
Alpha Forum
1998
No synopsis available yet.
3 nach 9
1974
No synopsis available yet.
Menschen der Woche
2000
9.0The 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
Annual awarding of the Grimme Awards.
Grimme Award
1964
No synopsis available yet.
Im Dialog
1997
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Heut' abend
1980
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Zeugen des Jahrhunderts
1979
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Wortwechsel
1982
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Gero von Boehm begegnet...
2002
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Dim Dam Dom
1965
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phoenix persönlich
2018
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Zeil um Zehn
1990
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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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Mein Kriegsende
2005
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Hollywood Profile
1998
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
7.0Georg 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
7.0Georg 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
6.8Freddy, 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
10.0Wayne 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
10.0Wayne 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
7.0Love, 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
7.0Love, 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
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
10.0Various Hollywood people talk about love.
Love in Hollywood
1996
10.0Various Hollywood people talk about love.
Love in Hollywood
1996
NRReencounter 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
NRReencounter 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
4.3A 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
7.8After 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
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Ein junger Mann aus dem Innviertel
1973
No synopsis available yet.
Land im Todesfieber - Über Gewalt in Guatemala
1992
No synopsis available yet.
Land im Todesfieber - Über Gewalt in Guatemala
1992
8.5Documentary 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
8.5Documentary 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Wolfgang Clement - Ein deutscher Politiker
1998
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Wolfgang Clement - Ein deutscher Politiker
1998
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Am Rande der bewohnbaren Welt - Das Leben des Dichters Arthur Rimbaud
1971
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Am Rande der bewohnbaren Welt - Das Leben des Dichters Arthur Rimbaud
1971
NRNo synopsis available yet.
La Violencia - Gewalt in Guatemala
1972
NRNo synopsis available yet.
La Violencia - Gewalt in Guatemala
1972
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


