Homesickness for the real Heidi: multicultural visions of the Swiss icon
"In the New World, Heidi is remembered as a sweet, coquettish cross between Bambi and Barbie, a Black Forest maiden and a society Tirolean. This is harmless retouching compared with the countless 'sequels' in which she appeared as Peter's wife, later also as a detective, ski instructor, ghost hunter or porn star. What William Tell is to Swiss men, Heidi is to girlsŃan earthy, national heroine whose cheeks shine redder than the blood of enemies and the alpenglow. She makes love, not war, and that is why she is adopted wherever she goes."
—Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The Heidi exhibition at the Strauhof Museum in Zurich is part of the "heidi 01" project commemorating author Johanna Spyri's death 100 years ago.'
