Eka Vogelnik

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Eka Vogelnik b. 1946, Ljubljana is a Slovene illustrator, costume designer, puppeteer and director.

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.

Some of her puppet animated films are:

Makalonca (based on a story by Fran Saleški Finžgar) 1994

En prišparan tolar (A Tolar saved) 1999

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, O šivilji in škarjicah (The Seamstress and Her Scissors) 2005