[3][2] She initially trained with Friderica Derra de Moroda at the Salzburg Landestheater and later studied with Margot Fonteyn, Svetlana Beriosova and Beryl Grey, and worked with a number of significant choreographers and conductors in the period, including John Neumeier and Leonard Bernstein.

[3][4] Werner performed frequently with her long-term dance partner, Heinz Bosl, until his death from leukemia at the age of 28.

She is best known for her performance of "So ein Mann" ("That Kind of Man") from the album Wasser, Feuer, Luft und Erde, which was a hit in 1977.

[2] In the 1970s, Werner made appearances in a number of Austrian and German television shows and films as a dancer and singer.

Her performances on film and television were produced in collaboration with several well-known choreographers and dancers, including Alan Carter, Harald Lander, Birgit Culberg, Heinz Roses, Anton Tudor, George Balanchine and Hans van Manen.

[3] Werner died at the age of 74, after falling from the third floor of Munich's Bogenhausen Hospital, where she was being treated for nerve damage in her shoulder.