Heidi Witzig (born 1944), formerly known as Heidi Schäppi-Witzig and now as Heidi Witzig Vetterli, is a

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historian.

Biography

Witzig was born in 1944 in Zürich. She is the daughter of an office furniture manufacturer. She grew up in Frauenfeld in the

canton of Thurgau Thurgau (; french: Thurgovie; it, Turgovia), anglicized as Thurgovia, more formally the Canton of Thurgau, is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of five districts and its capital is Frauenfeld. Thurgau is part ...

. 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. She subsequently worked as a documentalist at Schweizer Fernsehen DSR. She has been a freelance historian since 1986, with a focus on '' Alltagsgeschichte'' and women's history. Her works were "motivated for a long time by the anger against the unequal treatment of women". Around 1982, she became a Socialist municipality councillor in Uster,

canton of Zürich The canton of Zürich (german: Kanton Zürich ; rm, Chantun Turitg; french: Canton de Zurich; it, Canton Zurigo) is a Swiss canton in the northeastern part of the country. With a population of (as of ), it is the most populous canton in the ...

. 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". Heidi Witzig is a widowed mother of a daughter.

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

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: ''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.

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