Heidi Witzig

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Heidi Witzig (* 1944 in Zurich ; formerly Heidi Schäppi-Witzig ; today Heidi Witzig Vetterli ) is a Swiss historian .

Life

Witzig grew up as the daughter of an office furniture manufacturer in Frauenfeld . She studied history and art history at the Universities of Zurich and Florence and received her doctorate in Zurich in 1978 on the early Italian Renaissance . She worked as a documentalist for the Swiss television DRS . She has been a freelance historian since 1986. Her main research interests are everyday and women's history . Her "work had long been driven by anger against the inequality of women".

From around 1982 she represented the SP in the Uster municipal council (parliament) for eight years .

As a co-founder of the “Grandmothers Revolution”, she is committed “for women of retirement age” and “for an age in dignity and social security for all”.

Witzig is widowed and has a daughter.

Fonts (selection)

As an author
  • Heidi Schäppi-Witzig: The Florentine Citizens and Their City: A Cultural-Historical Analysis of the 15th Century. Series W, Zurich 1978 (dissertation).
  • with Elisabeth Joris : Brave women - rebellious women: How industrialization affected everyday life and contexts of women (1820–1940). Chronos, Zurich 1992; 3rd edition 2001.
  • Polenta and Paradeplatz: Everyday regional life on the way to modern Switzerland 1880–1914. Chronos, Zurich 2000; 2nd edition 2001.
  • How smart women get old: what they do and what they don't. With portraits by Sabine Bobst. Xanthippe, Zurich 2007; 3rd edition 2008; Paperback edition 2012.
As editor
  • with Elisabeth Joris: Women's stories: documents from two centuries on the situation of women in Switzerland. Limmat, Zurich 1986; 4th edition 2001.
  • with Felix Müller and Kathrin Arioli: Restless conditions: women and men in the age of equality. 15 portraits from the Canton of Zurich. Limmat, Zurich 2002.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Heidi Witzig , Edition Xanthippe website, accessed on April 14, 2018.
  2. ^ Rosenburg AG , Internet excerpt, commercial register of the Canton of Thurgau, accessed on April 14, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b Heidi Witzig, historian, and Lucas Niggli, musician , broadcast personal , Radio DRS 1 , February 10, 2008, accessed on April 14, 2018.
  4. ↑ Women's history (s): documents from two centuries on the situation of women in Switzerland. 5th edition. Limmat, Zurich 2001, p. 599.
  5. ^ Felix Müller: On the death of Ruedi Vetterli , Aktuell, website of the SP Uster, July 6, 2003, accessed on October 18, 2013.
  6. ↑ Heidi Witzig in conversation with SP 11 ( memento from October 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 104 kB), in a nutshell, No. 5 / November 2005.
  7. ↑ Fatima Vidal: GrandmothersRevolution , project “100 extraordinary women in Switzerland”, March 10, 2018, accessed on October 12, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Funny, Heidi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schäppi-Witzig, Heidi (former name); Witzig Vetterli, Heidi (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich