Josefa Berens-Totenohl, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German artist
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Place of Birth: Grevenstein, Free State of Prussia, Germany
About Josefa Berens-Totenohl
- 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.
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