History Literature / DiePilgerin

* AbuseMistake: Subverted. When Radegund discovers Otfried and Ilga having sex, it's Ilga who convinces her that Otfried had raped her, and Radegund believes it because she doesn't think a man would be as rough with a lover as Otfried was with the maid.

''Die Pilgerin'' (''The Pilgrim Woman'') is a historical adventure/romance novel by Iny Lorentz (a pseudonym of a German couple Iny Klocke and Elmar Wohlrath), first published in 2007.

* CastHerd: Played UpToEleven because the pilgrims ''are'' called "the herd" of Father Thomas who's a GoodShepherd. His InUniverse CastCalculus (when choosing whom to include in the group) wasn't just random: he wanted eleven pilgrims with him, so that the total number would be equal to that of the apostles.

* AdaptedOut: LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters from the novel. Hedwig, Anna, Renata, Peter, Starrheim, both de Coeurfachons, Brother Carolus, Philippe de Saint Vith, Hugues de Saltilieu, Gaston Phoebus, everyone from Spain...

* DatingCatwoman: Hugues de Saltilieu and Felicia de Lacaune get their FoeYay moment when he kisses her passionately and she is so carried away with it that she's ready to give herself to him in the nearest bedroom. [[spoiler:It doesn't stop her from arranging his murder a few hours later]].

* CastHerd: Played UpToEleven because the pilgrims ''are'' called "the herd" of Father Thomas who's TheGoodShepherd. His InUniverse CastCalculus (when choosing whom to include in the group) wasn't just random: he wanted eleven pilgrims with him, so that the total number would be equal to that of the apostles.

* InfantImmortality. Discussed as something only to wish for. Hedwig's grandchild nearly dies during birth, and the couple of times when there's a possibility Tilla is pregnant ([[spoiler:she isn't]]) she muses that Otfried [[WouldHurtAChild wouldn't show mercy if she shows up with a child in Tremmlingen]].

* AdaptationalJobChange: Elsa, Tilla’s old nanny, is MaybeMagicMaybeMundane witch in the film.
* AdaptationNameChange: Felicia de Lacaune from the book is Felicia de Bearn in the film.

* AdaptationalVillainy: Much of this in the film. In the book, at least in the beginning, Tilla's brother Otfried is mostly manipulated by Gürtler, and it's Gürtler who [[spoiler:kills Otfried and Tilla's father]]. However, in the film, Otfried is clearly the mastermind, and [[spoiler:strangles his father himself]].

** In the book, Aymer de Saltilieu progresses from AffablyEvil to FriendlyEnemy to ActionHero and AFatherToHisMen. In the film, he is an AxCrazy (and horribly [[{{Squick}} squicky]]) BigBadWannabe.

* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: For [[spoiler:Otfried]] and [[spoiler:Hugues de Saltilieu]], even their closest kin didn't weep. Downplayed with [[spoiler:Gürtler]]: though everyone was glad in their hearts to get rid of him, his death meant huge financial problems for his relatives.

* TheAtoner: Three Willinger generations. Tilla's grandfather was a very harsh man and wanted to atone for his crimes by going on a pilgrimage to Santiago. He kept putting it off and died without having done it. He asked Tilla's father Eckhardt to go to Santiago instead. Eckhardt was even harsher, kept putting the pilgrimage off and [[HistoryRepeats also died without having done it]]. Finally, Tilla ''does'' go on that pilgrimage, and she too wants not only to pray for her father and grandfather but to atone for her own sins (the worst of which being in her opinion the fact that she slept with Aymer and enjoyed it).

* AwfulWeddedLife: [[spoiler:''Several hours'']] that Tilla spent as Veit Gürtler's wife were more than enough.

* BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: The three main female characters from the pilgrim group: Blanche as the Beauty, Hedwig as the Brains, and Tilla as the Brawn.

* BeingEvilSucks: What [[spoiler:Sepp]] eventually learns.

* BigBadDuumvirate: Otfried and Gürtler.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Ilga, Otfried's maid and long-time mistress.

%%* BuryYourGays: Brother Carolus [[spoiler:is killed by robbers, saving Sebastian's life]]. -- ZCE
* CaptainSmoothAndSergeantRough: Inverted with Hugues and Aymer de Saltilieu – Captain Rough and Sergeant Smooth.

Set in the late Middle Ages, it centers around Ottilie "Tilla" Willinger, a young girl from a fictional town of Tremmlingen. As her father lays on his deathbed, Tilla promises him to bury his heart in the holy ground of Santiago de Compostela. Little does she suspect that her brother is plotting a huge intrigue, aiming to become the mayor of Tremmlingen, and that intrigue involves Tilla getting married to the horrible Veit Gürtler, a cruel merchant who had previously beaten his first wife to death. In the end Tilla manages to flee Tremmlingen disguised as a young man, but the real dangers are still in front of her.

''Die Pilgerin'' (''The Pilgrim Woman'') is a historical adventure/romance novel by Iny Lorentz (a pseudonym of a German couple Iny Klocke and Elmar Wohlrath), first published in 2007. Set in the late Middle Ages, it centers around Ottilie "Tilla" Willinger, a young girl from a fictional town of Tremmlingen. As her father lays on his deathbed, Tilla promises him to bury his heart in the holy ground of Santiago de Compostela. Little does she suspect that her brother is plotting a huge intrigue, aiming to become the mayor of Tremmlingen, and that intrigue involves Tilla getting married to the horrible Veit Gürtler, a cruel merchant who had previously beaten his first wife to death. In the end Tilla manages to flee Tremmlingen disguised as a young man, but the real dangers are still in front of her.

The book was made into two-part miniseries by ZDF in 2014.

* YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo: Inveeted. Tilla is sure Aymer will ''not'' free her and her companions and is very impressed when he actually does it.

* AdaptationalHeroism: Rigobert, Otfried's EvilMinion in the book, is an AntiVillain in the film [[spoiler:who actually kills Ottfried in the end]].

* {{Xenafication}}: Tilla is much tougher physically in the film than in the novel, and her first scene in Tremmlingen shows her hunting with a bow and arrows all by herself.