Character Relationship Map: Die Geierwally

Characters

• Wally Fender ( Geierwally ) (played by Heidemarie Hatheyer) — protagonist

  Wally is a headstrong Tyrolean woman who refuses her father's arranged marriage to the foreman Vinzenz because she remains devoted to Joseph. Banished to a remote mountain hut, she later returns as a...

• Joseph Brandt ( Bärenjoseph ) (played by Sepp Rist) — supporting

  Joseph is Wally's unrequited love. At a village dance, he publicly humiliates Wally while defending Afra's reputation, which provokes Wally to order his death. When Wally discovers that Afra is Joseph...

• Alois Fender (played by Eduard Köck) — supporting

  Alois is Wally's father. After she refuses his arranged marriage plan with Vinzenz and remains loyal to her love for Joseph, he banishes her to a remote mountain hut. His death later leaves Wally a we...

• Afra Kuttner (played by Winnie Markus) — supporting

  Afra is a woman whose perceived relationship with Joseph fuels Wally's jealousy. Joseph publicly defends her reputation at a village dance, intensifying Wally's anger toward him. Wally eventually disc...

• Vinzenz Gellner (played by Leopold Esterle) — supporting

  Vinzenz is the foreman whom Wally's father intends her to marry. Wally refuses the arranged match, and her rejection is part of the reason her father banishes her to a remote mountain hut. Later, afte...

• Luckard (played by Mimi Gstöttner-Auer) — supporting
• Resi (played by Käte Merk) — supporting
• Obermagd (played by Marta Salm) — supporting
• Nicodemus Rosenbauer (played by Georg Vogelsang) — supporting
• Klettenmeier (played by Ludwig Auer) — supporting
• Mariann Rosenbauer (played by Maria Hofen) — supporting
• Leander Rosenbauer (played by Hans Adalbert Schlettow) — minor
• Ochsenwirtin (played by Anna Exl) — minor
• Dorfbote (played by Hans Kratzer) — minor
• Graf (played by Gustav Waldau) — minor
• Oberförster (played by Franz Ludwig) — minor
• Bürgermeister (played by Rolf Pinegger) — minor
• Lehrer (played by Hans Hanauer) — minor
• Hüterjunge (played by Franzl Grüner) — minor