The Dark Monk

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

JAKOB KUISL, hangman of Schongau

SIMON FRONWIESER, son of the town doctor

MAGDALENA KUISL, the hangman’s daughter

ANNA MARIA KUISL, the hangman’s wife

GEORG AND BARBARA, the hangman’s twin children

BONIFAZ FRONWIESER, Schongau town doctor

BENEDIKTA KOPPMEYER, merchant woman from Landsberg am Lech

MARTHA STECHLIN, midwife

MAGDA, housekeeper of the St. Lawrence Church in Altenstadt

ABRAHAM GEDLER, sexton of the St. Lawrence Church in Altenstadt

MARIA SCHREEVOGL, wife of a town alderman

FRANZ STRASSER, innkeeper in Altenstadt

BALTHASAR HEMERLE, carpenter in Altenstadt

HANS BERCHTHOLDT, son of the Schongau master baker

SEBASTIAN SEMER, son of the presiding burgomaster

JOHANN LECHNER, court clerk

KARL SEMER, presiding burgomaster and innkeeper of the Goldener Stern Inn

MATTHIAS HOLZHOFER, second presiding burgomaster

JAKOB SCHREEVOGL, stove maker and alderman

MICHAEL BERCHTHOLDT, master baker and alderman

PHILIPP HARTMANN, hangman of Augsburg

NEPOMUK BIERMANN, owner of St. Mary’s Pharmacy in Augsburg

OSWALD HAINMILLER, merchant from Augsburg

LEONHARD WEYER, merchant from Augsburg

ANDREAS KOPPMEYER, priest of the St. Lawrence Church in Altenstadt

ELIAS ZIEGLER, priest of St. Michael’s Basilica in Altenstadt

AUGUSTIN BONENMAYR, abbot of the Premonstratensian Monastery in Steingaden

MICHAEL PISCATOR, superintendent of the Augustinian Monastery in Rottenbuch

BERNHARD GERING, abbot of the Wessobrunn Benedictine Monastery

BROTHER JAKOBUS

BROTHER AVENARIUS

BROTHER NATHANAEL