Heidi Witzig (born 1944), formerly known as Heidi Schäppi-Witzig and now as Heidi Witzig Vetterli,[1] is a Swiss historian.
Biography
Witzig was born in 1944 in Zürich.[2] She is the daughter of an office furniture manufacturer.[3] She grew up in Frauenfeld in the canton of Thurgau.[3] She studied history and art history at the universities of Zurich and Florence and earned a doctorate in Zürich with a work about the early Italian Renaissance in 1978.[2] She subsequently worked as a documentalist at Schweizer Fernsehen DSR.[4] She has been a freelance historian since 1986, with a focus on Alltagsgeschichte and women's history.[2] Her works were "motivated for a long time by the anger against the unequal treatment of women".[3]
As a co-initiator of the GrossmütterRevolution ("Grandmothers' Revolution"), she engages in favour of "women in retiring age for a maturity in dignity and social protection for all".[7]
Heidi Witzig is a widowed mother of a daughter.[2]
Publications (selection)
As an author
Heidi Schäppi-Witzig: Die Florentiner Bürger und ihre Stadt: Eine kulturgeschichtliche Analyse des 15. Jahrhunderts. Zürich: Reihe W, 1978 (dissertation).
with Elisabeth Joris: Brave Frauen – aufmüpfige Weiber: Wie sich die Industrialisierung auf Alltag und Lebenszusammenhänge von Frauen auswirkte (1820–1940). Zürich: Chronos, 1992; 3rd edition in 2001.
Polenta und Paradeplatz: Regionales Alltagsleben auf dem Weg zur modernen Schweiz 1880–1914. Zürich: Chronos, 2000; 2nd edition in 2001.
Wie kluge Frauen alt werden: Was sie tun und was sie lassen. Mit Porträts von Sabine Bobst. Xanthippe, Zürich 2007; 3rd edition in 2008; pocket book edition in 2012.
As an editor
with Elisabeth Joris: Frauengeschichte(n): Dokumente aus zwei Jahrhunderten zur Situation der Frauen in der Schweiz. Zürich: Limmat, 1986; 4th edition in 2001.
with Felix Müller and Kathrin Arioli: Unruhige Verhältnisse: Frauen und Männer im Zeitalter der Gleichberechtigung. 15 Porträts aus dem Kanton Zürich. Zürich: Limmat, 2002.
References
^"Rosenburg AG". Handelsregister des Kantons Thurgau (in German). Retrieved April 14, 2018.
^ abcd"Heidi Witzig" (in German). Edition Xanthippe. Retrieved April 14, 2018.
^Vidal, Fatima (March 10, 2008). "GrossmütterRevolution" (in German). Project "100 aussergewöhnliche Frauen in der Schweiz". Retrieved October 12, 2018.