Fische. Publizistik aus zwei Jahrzehnten. Verlag Neues Leben: Berlin 1972 Die gepanzerte Doris. Kinderbuchverlag: Berlin 1973 Ein sommerwarmer Februar. Kinderbuchverlag: Berlin 1973 Der Gong des Porzellanhändlers. Verlag Neues Leben: Berlin 1976 Vaters liebes gutes Bein. Kinderbuchverlag: Berlin 1977 Gedanken auf dem Fahrrad. Verlag Neues Leben: Berlin 1980 Kurgespräche. Verlag Neues Leben: Berlin 1988 Sonjas Rapport. (autobiografical) First "complete" German language edition, Verlag Neues Leben (Eulenspiegel Verlagsgruppe) 2006 (original "censored" edition 1977), The writer Her short (64 page) publication "Immer unterwegs. Reportage aus Prag über die Tätigkeit unserer Ingenieure im Ausland" was published under the name "Ursula Beurton" in Berlin in 1956. Between 1958 and 1988, she produced a succession of books under the name by which she subsequently came to be known, Ruth Werner. Most were story books for children or suitably expurgated memoirs of her time in espionage. Her autobiography appeared in East Germany under the title "Sonjas Rapport" (Sonya's Report) and became a bestseller. There was no mention of Klaus Fuchs, who was still alive in 1976 and, presumably for the same reason, no mention of Melita Norwood. An English language version appeared in 1991 and a Chinese translation in 1999. An uncensored German language version came out only in 2006, although many questions were still left unanswered. In 1982 Ruth Werner became a member of the East German affiliate of PEN International. Die Wende As the existence of the German Democratic Republic came to an end in the late 1980s, Ruth Werner was one of the few to defend it. On 10 November 1989, immediately after The Wall was breached, she addressed tens of thousands of people at a meeting in the Berlin Lustgarten (pleasure park) on the subject of her faith in Socialism with a human face. During the run-up to German reunification, she placed great faith in Egon Krenz, who briefly led East Germany. She seems never to have regretted or seen the need to apologize for her espionage. In 1956, when Nikita Khrushchev made public the darker face of Communist Russia under Stalin, she was invited to comment. She was reluctant to join the criticism of the Soviet wartime leader: She died in Berlin on 7 July 2000. Interviewed that year, a few months before her death, she was asked about the consequences of "Die Wende", the changes which had led to German reunification (which many of her persuasion still saw as a peaceful