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Gertrud

 

Gertrud (Humperdinck: Hänsel und Gretel). Wife of Peter and mother of Hänsel and Gretel. As there is no food to feed the family, she sends the children to pick strawberries in the Ilsenstein forest, wherein lives the wicked Witch. Created (1893) by Luise Tibelti.

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