Eka Vogelnik Explained

Eka Alenka Vogelnik (born 1946, Ljubljana) is a Slovene illustrator, costume, scenography, and puppet designer, puppeteer, director and university teacher.^{[1] [2]}

Career

Eka Vogelnik graduated in architecture and painting, and works primarily as an illustrator, set and costume designer, as well as in puppet making and puppeteering. She has illustrated over 30 books, been the artistic designer for more than 30 theatre productions and is the author of 7 puppet shows, and numerous film and TV productions. In the recent years she has been involved mainly in developing different types of puppets and teaching puppetry.^{[3] [2]}

Films

Some of her puppet animated films, mostly using stop-motion animation are:

• Makalonca (based on a story by Fran Saleški Finžgar) 1994
• En prišparan tolar (A Tolar saved) 1999 (visually drawing on the Danse Macabre mural from Hrastovlje)
• Bisergora (Pearl Mountain) 2001
• Pozabljene knjige naših babic (The Forgotten Books of Our Grannies) series:

Mojca Pokraculja 2000

Trdoglav in Marjetica (Trdoglav and Marjetica) 2001

Butalci 2003^[4]

O šivilji in škarjicah (The Seamstress and Her Scissors) 2005^[5]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Eka Alenka Vogelnik . Slovenian Film Centre . 31 August 2018. Slovenian.
2. Web site: Teachers and staff . Faculty for Social Work . University of Ljubljana . 18 March 2024.
3. http://www.film-sklad.si/html/festival2003/en/programme/tv-productions/butalci/ Slovenian Film Fund site
4. http://www.film-sklad.si/html/festival2003/en/programme/tv-productions/butalci/ Slovenian Film Fund site 6th festival of Slovenian film
5. Web site: Animateka 6th International Animated Film Festival 2009 . 2010-01-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081015212914/http://www.animatekafestival.org/en/taxonomy/term/67 . 2008-10-15 . dead .