Josefa Berens-Totenohl (30 March 1891, in Grevenstein, Sauerland – 6 June 1969) was a German writer and painter. She was the daughter of a blacksmith. First she became a teacher, but later worked as a writer and painter and made elaborate tapestries. Her romantic peasant novels were very popular in Nazi Germany; although she never joined the Nazi Party, and the novels had no ideological overtones, their praise of peasant virtue, rootedness, and strength were acceptable to the party. See also List of German painters References External links 1891 births 1969 deaths People from Meschede People from the Province of Westphalia Writers from North Rhine-Westphalia German women novelists 20th-century German painters German women painters 20th-century German novelists 20th-century German women writers