Ursula Heinzelmann, born in Berlin in 1963, is a freelance German food and wine writer, a sommelière and a gastronome.

[1] She was a good cook before she had learned to read, according to a radio interview on HR2-Kultur,[2] and she was a practitioner before she began to write about food: from 1986 to 1991 she ran a small hotel and restaurant on the shores of Lake Constance, and soon afterwards a delicatessen in Berlin specializing in fine French cheeses and wines.

To Effilee she contributes a series on cheese, "Gegessener Käse", ranging from Israel and Hungary to Corsica, Britain and the United States.

Her 2007 article "A Night in Berlin" evokes the Christmas atmosphere of the no longer divided city as a group of friends explore its "bustling markets, venerable delicatessens, and cosmopolitan neighborhoods".

[12] In 2014 Reaktion Books published her well-received "Beyond Bratwurst", a chronological history of food in Germany,[13] followed by a German edition two years later, under the title "Was is(s)t Deutschland" (Tre Torri, 2016).