Heidi Witzig


Heidi Witzig, formerly known as Heidi Schäppi-Witzig and now as Heidi Witzig Vetterli, is a Swiss historian.

Biography

Witzig is the daughter of an office furniture manufacturer. She grew up in Frauenfeld in the canton of Thurgau. She studied history and art history at the universities of Zurich and Florence and earned a doctorate in Zurich 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 an Socialist municipality councillor in Uster, canton of Zurich.
As a co-initiator of the GrossmütterRevolution, 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 two.

Publications (selection)

; As an author
; As an editor