Heidi is, above all, very popular in Japan - this has seen the start of the myth of Heidi. The romanticised, ideal image of the Swiss landscape created by her has made its way across the world in the form of numerous translations. Spyri's books were published worldwide in more than fifty languages, and continue to shape the image of modern-day Switzerland in other countries today. The stories about Heidi, Peter and his goats, and her grandfather, have enthused millions of children and adults worldwide. In two volumes Spyri tells of the experiences of an orphan girl Heidi who was sent to her solitary grandfather who lived in the mountain pastures. It was the story of Heidi that granted her the first great breakthrough in 1880. Spyri published her first narrative in 1871. During her pregnancy with her only child, Bernhard Diethelm, Johanna Spyri was plagued with severe depression. Her marriage was not a particularly happy one. In 1851, Johanna Spyri married the lawyer and editor Bernhard Spyri from Zurich. It was here that she was able to improves her languages skills in French. At the time of her schooling, she also lived in Yverdon for two years where she visited a boarding school. At the age of 15 years, she moved to Zurich to live with her aunt where she also went to school. Johanna Spyri was born as the fourth of six children to a doctor and a poet.
One of her most famous characters is "Heidi" from the works of "Heidis Lehr- und Wanderjahre" (Heidi, her years of wandering and learning) in 1880, and "Heidi kann brauchen, was es gelernt hat" ("Heidi makes use of what she has learned") from 1881. She later became one of the most well-known authors and predominantly wrote children's and youth literature. On 12 June 1827 the Swiss national Johanna Spyri was born in the Canton of Zurich. On the 186th birthday of Johanna Spyri News on
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