Georg Lota Ponitka

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Georg Lota Ponitka (* 1952 in Wurzen ) is a German illustrator and author.

biography

Ponitka is co-founder of the reading forum “ Literature at eight ” in Cologne. and the artists' cooperative "Triebart" In 1959, he traveled from the GDR to the FRG as a child. He has been working as a freelance artist, author and occasional musician since the 1970s. He has also worked in advertising and as a media worker since the 1980s. In 1984 he and his band "Die Nashörner" received a children's song award from the Child Protection Association / WDR. From 1996 to 2004 he performed with the live rock band of his cousin Rainer Ponitka, “The Weird Angels” (or “hormonally beisamen”).

In his early years he illustrated SF books for Heyne Verlag, designed the artwork for around 18 picture stories and cartoons for WDR's “ Sendung mit der Maus ”, wrote / composed children's songs for the “Sandmännchen” at ORB, and for many years was responsible for the image design Safety and youth traffic information from the Federal Highway Research Institute (BAST). Numerous other illustrations, picture stories and cartoons have appeared in the press, books and TV. His comic publications include the historical album "Kölner Traum" from 1985. Scattered, often collective exhibitions. Since 2000 he has been primarily active in literature.

Ponitka appears with his texts at reading events in Cologne; primarily in the weekly reading series “Literature at eight” in Café Duddel, which he founded with theater people Gerd Buurmann (director) and Viktoria Burkert in 2001, as well as the Monday reading “Poet's Hour at Midnight” in Café Storch. In November 2008, after Buurmann's departure, he and two new partners took over the organization of the “Literature at eight”.

Publications

  • To the stars - in: Science Fiction Story Reader 11 (Anthol.), Heyne Verlag, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-453-30538-8
  • Kellervögel - (fragment of a novel), Bläschke Verlag, St. Michael (Austria) 1980, ISBN 3-7053-0791-6
  • Köln-Komic 1 / In the claws of a split soul - (the 1st Zeltinger Band comic), Stadtrevue Verlag, Cologne 1981
  • On the street - (comic story), Desire & Gegenrealismus, Schwandorf 1983, ISBN 3-88397-079-4
  • Kölner Traum - (comic novel; co-author Dorothée Quenzer), Emons Verlag, Cologne 1985, ISBN 3-924491-02-X
  • Songs the way children like them - (LP and music cassette; various interpreters), WDR / Verlag Plans (Patmos), Cologne 1985, LP 88436 / MC 8436
  • Songs as children like them - (song texts with notes; various authors), Kölner Volksblatt Verlag, Cologne 1985, ISBN 3-923243-23-5
  • Das Sandmann-Liederbuch - (children's songs with sheet music from the ORB's "Sandman"; 2 co-authors - with music cassette), Junge Welt, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-7302-1180-3
  • When Elvis was wobbly - in: Fair copy 1 (Anthol.), Van Aaken Verlag, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-938244-00-3
  • Diary of an unemployed person - (A poetic essay, parts I to IX), Rößner Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 2004, ISBN 3-938362-06-5
  • Theo, we're going to Lodz - in: Kladde.auf / die.Reihe / Volume 11 - Rampenlicht (Anthol.), Literareon / Herbert Utz Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-8316-1250-5
  • The creation - (co-author Norman Junge) / short crime story - in: Fair copy 2 (Anthol.), Van Aaken Verlag, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-938244-07-4
  • Kreuzzug-Ballade - A rhyming soap opera in fifteen episodes - (Versepos, 2006), van Aaken Verlag, Cologne, ISBN 3-938244-05-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Solana Theater ( Memento of the original from December 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.solana-theater.de
  2. ↑ Type of drive
  3. ↑ The Weird Angels
  4. ↑ hormonally together
personal data
SURNAME Ponitka, Georg Lota
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German illustrator, author and ideas dealer
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Spice up