Characters in Die heimliche Heilerin und der Medicus

Madlen

A "secret healer" who is happily united with Johannes and has two children. She is eager to learn about healing arts from a traveling medicus and fights against societal conventions and her husband's jealousy to study with him.

Also in Die heimliche Heilerin, Die heimliche Heilerin und die Könige

Johannes

Madlen's husband and the father of their two children. He is a medicus who is called back to Cologne by the bishop to investigate a series of murders and finds himself in great danger.

Medicus

A traveling medicus who has stopped in Worms and is on his way to Heidelberg to teach medicine at the university. He has knowledge of healing arts from Salerno and Madlen is eager to learn from him.

Bischof

The bishop who recalls Johannes to Cologne to investigate a series of murders.