Ludmila Zeman

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Ludmila Zeman (also Ludmila Zemanová , Ludmila Spalená (married name), born April 23, 1947 in Zlín ( Czechoslovakia )) is a Czech-Canadian animation producer, author and illustrator of children's books.

life and work

Ludmila Zeman is the daughter of the Czech animation producer Karel Zeman . Already in her childhood she helped her father with the production of his dolls, but also with the production of the cartoons. Since Karel Zeman's film "Adventures of the Sailor Sindbad" ( Dobrodruzství námorníka Sindibáda ), which was made in 1971, she has been regularly involved in the artistic production of his films. At the age of 19 she produced her first short film about a monkey and a turtle, which she was able to sell to Czech television.

Ludmila Zeman studied art and design at the Art School in Uherské Hradiště . In 1982 she illustrated the first book, the children's book Linda, kočka zahradní (in German: "Linda, the gardener's cat") by Marketá Zinnerová . Together with her husband Eugene Spaleny, the former chief animator in her father's studio, she produces short and animated films.

In 1985 the family emigrated to Canada after Ludmila Zeman and her husband had received a teaching offer from the Emily Carr College of Art in Vancouver ; In 1988 she received Canadian citizenship. The couple taught film design and animation technology and produced the animated short film A Cedar Tree of Life , which appeared in the Canadian edition of Sesame Street .

In 1991 she and her husband produced the 13-minute animation Lord of the Sky for the National Film Board of Canada , which is based on legends of the First Nations of the Northwest Coast culture. The animation was shown in 1993 at the Children's Film Festival (today Generation 14plus ) of the Berlinale and received a special mention from the children's jury. In Lord of the Sky , Spaleny and Zeman use, among other things, 3D models, puppets and paper cuttings ( cut-out animation ). In 2009 a picture book was published for the film, which Ludmila Zeman illustrated and the texts of which her daughter Lena Zeman-Spaleny wrote.

The first part of her trilogy on Gilgamesh , Gilgamesh the King , was the first adaptation of the Gilgamesh epic to children's literature in 1992 . Zeman adapted both person and action descriptions to make them child-friendly. So the girl is Samhat as a singer who Enkidu infatuated with their singing and appeared in the second part of 1993 The Revenge of Ishtar ( The Revenge of Ishtar murdered) of Humbaba. Enkidu is not cursed with a curse here, but with a disease and dies, at the end of this part of Shamḫat is brought into the underworld. In contrast to the original, there are no goddesses in Zeman's adaptation. The illustrations are based on the religious engravings of the 18th and 19th centuries. Kenneth Field, librarian at Traill College at Trent University in Peterborough , Ontario , sees them as an appropriate implementation of mythical elements. Overall, Field sees the trilogy as a good introduction for children to "some of the mysteries of the ancient world". Despite corresponding comments at the end of the trilogy, he points out the need to explain the meaning of the epic to readers so that they can relate the connections between the individual events. For the third part of her Gilgamesh series, Ludmila Zeman received the Governor General's Award in 1995 for the best illustration in the field of English-language children's literature.

Works (selection)

Children's books

Awards

  • 1995: Governor General's Literary Award , children's literature ("Best illustrations") for "The Last Quest of Gilgamesh"

Filmography

  • 1991: Lord of the Sky
    Awards: “Blue Ribbon Award” at the American Film and Video Festival in the category “Documentaries for Children” ( Chicago , 1993), “Festival Award for Intercultural Understanding” at the International Children's Film Festival (Chicago, 1993), “Prix de la Commune d'Ormont-Dessus "at the Festival international du film alpin ( Les Diablerets Switzerland, 1994)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview. ( Memento of the original from August 5, 2016 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. From: tundrabooks.com, accessed July 5, 2018. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tundrabooks.com
  2. ^ Canadian Children's Book Center (ed.): The Storymakers: Illustrating Children's Books: 72 Artists and Illustrators Talk about Their Work , Pembroke, Markham 1999, p. 150, ISBN 1-55138-107-9 online
  3. ↑ a b Vita in the Archives of the Library and Archives Canada from May 29, 2001, accessed on July 25, 2017
  4. ↑ Jane Waldron Grutz: Zeman's Gilgamesh. In: Saudi Aramco World , Volume 47, No. 3 from May / June 1996, pp. 18-27, online .
  5. ↑ Lord of the Sky on the National Film Board Canada website , accessed July 18, 2018.
  6. ↑ Lord of the Sky in the program of the Berlinale 1993, archive on berlinale.de, accessed on July 17, 2018.
  7. ↑ Invitation Ludmila Zeman of the Consulate General of the Czech Republic in Chicago at mzv.cz (PDF), accessed on July 18, 2018.
  8. ^ Theodore Ziolkowski: Gilgamesh among Us: Modern Encounters with the Ancient Epic. Cornell University Press, Ithaca 2011, by Verlag Walter de Gruyter (online), ISBN 978-0-8014-6341-9 , pp. 111, 217.
  9. ↑ Kenneth Field: Review: The Last Quest of Gilgamesh. In: CM: Canadian Review of Materials , Volume 2, Number 12, January 5, 1996, online .
  10. ^ The Manitoba Library Association: Canada Council Announces Finalists for 1995 Governor General's Literary Awards. In: CM: Canadian Review of Materials , Volume 2, Number 5, November 17, 1995, online .
personal data
SURNAME Zeman, Ludmila
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zemanová, Ludmila (maiden name); Spalená, Ludmila (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech-Canadian illustrator and animation producer
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Zlín , Czechoslovakia