Berta Schmidt is the sister of Jan Josef Schmidt. She lived near Rittersberg. She was convinced the illnesses in her brothers pension house was caused by the supernatural. She’d begged for Gabriel’s help, asking him to ‘just take a short holiday there and see what you can find out.’
Behind the scenes
An Herr Schmidt appears in the short story novella. Frau Schmidt is a character that appears in the comic, while another individual named Berta appears in the novella (as both are intended to be the sister of the guesthaus owner) her full name is likely to be Berta Schmidt.