Lotte Lipp

Lotte Lipp is the wife (at least in name) of Herr Lipp in The League of Gentlemen.

She is played by League writer Mark Gatiss, who has played many other roles on the show.

History
Lotte appears briefly in the second series, when she arrives in Royston Vasey from Germany to check up on her husband Herr Lipp who is on the student exchange. She finds him in the company of a young man named Justin (whose family Herr is staying with) and attempts to warn the man away from her husband, however ends up being put out by Herr. Lotte returns a few moments later after Herr attacked Justin with coffee and knocked him unconscious, and got her to help him bury Justin in the garden.

Lotte appears a bit more prominently in the Christmas Special during a flashback set in 1975, in which Herr Lipp is the leader of an orphaned boy's choir. At this time he takes on an orphaned young man named Matthew, who comes to live with Lotte, Herr and the choir boys. Unknown to Matthew and Herr, Lotte and the choir boys are vampires, and Lotte bites into Matthew's neck whilst he is asleep to suck his blood. When Matthew discovers the neck scars, he assumes Herr is responsible due to his clear attraction to Matthew. When Matthew asks Lotte if Herr is a vampire, she warns him to leave that very night.

The following morning Matthew plans to "expose" Herr as a vampire, and confronts him whilst he is conducting the choir. But it is revealed to both of them that the choir boys are vampires, as is Lotte. Lotte blames Herr for not providing her with children, forcing her to "provide her own". Lotte then orders the vampire boys to attack Herr and Matthew. Herr sacrifices himself to the vampires in order to allow Matthew to escape.