| Birth Date: | 5 July 1946 |
| Birth Place: | Ljubljana |
| Death Date: | November 2024 |
| Citizenship: | Slovenia |
| Occupation: | illustrator, costume, scenography, and puppet designer, puppeteer, director, university teacher |
Eka Alenka Vogelnik (5 July 1946 - November 2024[1]) was a Slovene illustrator, costume, scenography, and puppet designer, puppeteer, director and university teacher.[2] [3]
Eka Vogelnik graduated in architecture and painting, and worked primarily as an illustrator, set and costume designer, as well as in puppet making and puppeteering. She illustrated over 30 books, was the artistic designer for more than 30 theatre productions, author of 7 puppet shows and numerous film and TV productions. In the later years of her career, she was involved mainly in developing different types of puppets and teaching puppetry.[4] [3]
Some of her puppet animated films, mostly using stop-motion animation are:
Mojca Pokraculja 2000
Trdoglav in Marjetica (Trdoglav and Marjetica) 2001
Butalci 2003[5]
O šivilji in škarjicah (The Seamstress and Her Scissors) 2005[6]