Gisela Uhlen

Gisela Uhlen (16 May 1919 – 16 January 2007) was a German film actress and occasional screen writer.

[2] At the Leipziger Konservatorium she enrolled in a modern dance class, and learnt classical ballet and acrobatics at the opera school.

After her final examination as a dancer and during her training period she married ballet teacher Herbert Freund.

With Wolfgang Kieling she had a daughter Susanne Uhlen,[1] who is now a successful German actress.

During the Cold War, and following her divorce from Hans Bertram, Uhlen fled into East Germany to avoid a custody battle over their daughter, an unusual move in a time when most people were attempting to escape from East Germany, but moved to West Berlin in 1960.