SCHONGAU PILGRIMS
MAGDALENA FRONWIESER (NEE KUISL), the hangman’s daughter
SIMON FRONWIESER, Schongau bathhouse medicus
KARL SEMER, presiding burgomaster of Schongau
SEBASTIAN SEMER, son of the presiding burgomaster
JAKOB SCHREEVOGL, stove fitter and Schongau alderman
BALTHASAR HEMERLE, Altenstadt carpenter
KONRAD WEBER, city priest
ANDRE LOSCH, LUKAS MULLER, HANS AND JOSEF TWANGLER, bricklayer’s journeymen
OTHER CITIZENS OF SCHONGAU
JAKOB KUISL, hangman of Schongau
ANNA-MARIA KUISL, the hangman’s wife
GEORG AND BARBARA, the hangman’s twin children
PETER AND PAUL, Magdalena and Simon Fronwieser’s children
MARTHA STECHLIN, midwife
THE BERCHTHOLDT BROTHERS HANS, JOSEF, AND BENEDIKT JOHANN LECHNER, court clerk
ANDECHS MONASTERY
MAURUS RAMBECK, abbot
BROTHER JEREMIAS, prior
BROTHER ECKHART, cellarer
BROTHER LAURENTIUS, novitiate master
BROTHER BENEDIKT, cantor and librarian
BROTHER VIRGILIUS, watchmaker
BROTHER VITALIS, novitiate and watchmaker’s assistant
BROTHER JOHANNES, apothecary
COELESTIN, novitiate and apothecary’s assistant
ADDITIONAL CHARACTERS
MICHAEL GRAETZ, Erling knacker
MATTHIAS, knacker’s journeyman
COUNT LEOPOLD VON WARTENBERG, the Wittelsbachs’ ambassador
COUNT VON CASANA UND COLLE, Weilheim district judge
MASTER HANS, Weilheim executioner