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Ursula Werner

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in Freiburg, Germany

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Fiction, Historical Fiction, Poetry

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Virginia Woolf, Rainier Maria Rilke

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Ursula Werner is a writer and part-time attorney currently living in Washington D.C. with her family. She has written fiction and poetry for over 25 years, publishing one novel, The Good at Heart (2017) and two poetry chapbooks, In the Silence of the Woodruff (2006) and Rapunzel Revisited (2010). Magda Revealed is her second novel.

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I have just finished your book The Good At Heart, and was wondering if I am allowed to review it at this time. ? I received it from NetGalley, they seemed to say wait to review. I know amazon does not allow me to review yet, but Goodreads and Facebook are my other options.

Ursula Werner I'm so sorry Alison, that I haven't been able to respond to your question before now. I would love to know what you thought of the book! If you are wi…moreI'm so sorry Alison, that I haven't been able to respond to your question before now. I would love to know what you thought of the book! If you are willing and able to post on Goodreads and Facebook, I say go right ahead. Thank you so much for reading it.(less)

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I finished The Good at Heart a few weeks ago and cannot get it out of my mind. I read that you wrote the novel after discovering some of your own family history. If you do not mind sharing, how much of the story is based on your family and how much is fictional?

Ursula Werner What is true about the story is that my own great-grandfather, Hans Ernst Posse, was (like Oskar Eberhardt) a member of Hitler's cabinet. Hans Posse w…moreWhat is true about the story is that my own great-grandfather, Hans Ernst Posse, was (like Oskar Eberhardt) a member of Hitler's cabinet. Hans Posse was Minister of Economy during the Weimar Republic, and Hitler asked him to stay on when he assumed power. He had to join the Nazi party to do so. Here's a link to his story, and how I learned more about him, on my website:
https://www.ursulawerner.com/the-good...
As far as I know, no members of my family were actively involved in smuggling Jewish refugees across the Swiss border.

I've mostly made up the other characters, though some of them are based on real-life people. Erich Wolf is modeled after Claus von Stauffenberg, a German army officer who was executed for his part in the assassination attempt on Hitler in July 1944. Johann Wiessmeyer is based on Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was also assassinated for his role in the resistance (I let Johann survive).

The house and town where the Eberhardts live is based on a real house and town in southern Germany, on Lake Constance. My mother still lives there, and the pink Catholic church Birnau is within walking distance of her home.

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	The Good at Heart 3.79 avg rating — 508 ratings — published 2017 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Magda Revealed 4.24 avg rating — 120 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Kaiserwetter in der Gosse: Die juten Sitten by Anna Basener, Jasna Fritzi Bauer (Narrator), Ursula Werner (Goodreads Author) (Narrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Die juten Sitten: Goldene Zwanziger. Dreckige Wahrheiten. by Anna Basener, Jeanette Hain (Narrator), Saskia Rosendahl (Narrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Thank you, Houston & Brazos Books!

Just got back from a wonderful visit to Houston and the Brazos Bookstore. Many thanks to Sarah and the staff at Brazos for their warm welcome, and to the fantastic audience I had at my reading. It is very heartening to find so many highly engaged readers, asking themselves (and me) hard questions about what the past has to teach us, and how we can apply those lessons to our lives today.

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“What was Oskar trying to tell her? Then, as Oskar continued to clasp her hands, Edith began to feel what her husband was feeling: resolution, courage, exhaustion, sadness. No fear, not even an ounce of fear. But love--the love Oskar was communicating to her at that moment was overwhelming.”
― Ursula Werner, The Good at Heart

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