Gisela werler biography

- In Berlin, Christian Alvart is filming the story of Gisela Werler, a beautiful bank robber who was nicknamed Banklady by the Germans.

Since June 7, shooting has been ongoing in Berlin for a feature film inspired by one of the most sensational crime stories in post-war Germany: that of Gisela Werler, the woman bank robber who became known as the Banklady, to be the title of the film.

This carpet factory worker orchestrated 19 bank robberies that kept the country in suspense for two years between 1965 and 1967, before her little band was arrested.

The latter included her future husband Hermann Wittorff, whom she married in prison after their sentences were passed (13 year for him and only 9 years for her, as she declared that she had only done it out of love).

Werler's story has already been made into several documentaries for television and an animation film by Katja Baumann, but never before has her well-known