Melitta Marxer (8 September 1923 – 13 February 2015) was a Liechtensteiner activist who spent decades organizing and fighting for women's suffrage.
[1] As her three daughters grew up, she increasingly became aware of the inequalities and double standards facing women in Liechtenstein and the fact that only her husband could vote in elections.
[3] She supported her daughters in their desire for higher education[3] and joined the fight for girls to be allowed to attend high school, which was attained in the 1960s.
[6] Unable to make headway, in 1981, Marxer and other feminists formed Aktion Dornröschen,[4] which technically means thorny rose, but was a play on words for the German name of the fairy tale "Sleeping Beauty".
[6] In 2002, a Swiss documentary, Die andere Hälfte, (The Other Half) was made, which told the story of Marxer and the struggle for women's rights in Liechtenstein.