Moni Port

Moni Port (* 1968 in Bernkastel-Kues ) is a German illustrator , author and graphic artist.

Life

After graduating from high school, Port trained as a bookseller in Trier. She then studied communication design at the University of Applied Sciences in Mainz. She then worked as a cover designer at Eichborn Verlag in Frankfurt. In 1999 she founded the Labor Ateliergemeinschaft in Frankfurt am Main together with Anke Kuhl and Philip Waechter .

Port lives with her husband Philip Waechter and their son in Frankfurt am Main.

Bibliography (selection)

picture books

• Uwe the pig. Beltz and Gelberg publishing house, 2002, NA 2014
• Rita the sheep. Beltz and Gelberg publishing house, 2002, NA 2014
• Little Paul. Beltz and Gelberg publishing house, 2003
• Little Renate. Beltz and Gelberg publishing house, 2003
• I already know that. Klett children's book, 2009
• together with Philip Waechter (illustration): The Krakeeler. Beltz and Gelberg, 2010
• Moni Port: There are no children. Klett children's book, 2014
• Moni Port: A new friend. Klett children's book, 2015
• together with Jörg Mühle (illustration): What lies on the beach and speaks indistinctly. Klett children's book, 2015
• together with Jörg Mühle (illustration): What is sitting in the forest and waving? Klett children's book, 2016
• together with Philip Waechter (illustration): The airfield sparrow took its place on the leaflet Quickspeaker and tongue twister Klett Children's book, 2017 * Do you know that? Klett children's book, four-language edition, 2018
• together with Philip Waechter (illustration): What do you call a rabbit in the gym? New puzzle jokes and nonsense pictures, Klett children's book, 2019

Anthologies

• The best of everything Aladin Verlag. 2015

Non-fiction

• I already know that. Klett children's book, 2009
• The brave book. Klett children's book, 2013
• The sleepless book. Klett children's book, 2019
• together with Andrea Gerk (text): Fifty things that are only really fun from fifty onwards , Kein und Aber Verlag, 2019

Envelope designs

• Frank Goosen : Learning to lie down, Eichborn Verlag, 2000
• Sven Regener : Herr Lehmann, Eichborn Verlag, 2001
• Katja Kullmann : Generation Ally, Eichborn Verlag, 2002
• Rainald Grebe : Global Fish, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 2006
• Louise Erdrich : House of the Wind, edition of the Gutenberg Book Guild, 2014
• Robert Seethaler : A Whole Life, Edition of the Gutenberg Book Guild, 2014
• Ayelet Gundar-Goshen : Awakening Lions, edition of the Gutenberg Book Guild, 2015
• Joachim Meyerhoff : Oh, this gap, this horrific gap, edition of the Gutenberg Book Guild, 2016
• Hans Fallada : Little man what now ?, Edition of the Gutenberg Book Guild, 2016
• Hans Magnus Enzensberger : 99 literary vignettes, edition of the Gutenberg Book Guild, 2019
• Karen Duve : Miss Nice's short summer, edition of the Gutenberg Book Guild , 2019

Books with the laboratory studio community

• Children's artist scribble book, Beltz & Gelberg, 2009, ISBN 978-3-407-79396-6
• Children's artist hands-on book, Beltz & Gelberg, 2010, ISBN 978-3-407-79974-6
• Kinder Künstler Mitmach Minis, Beltz & Gelberg, 2011, ISBN 978-3-407-79990-6 , ISBN 978-3-407-79989-0
• Children's artist adventure book, Beltz & Gelberg, 2011, ISBN 978-3-407-79988-3
• Children's artist friend book, Beltz & Gelberg, 2012, ISBN 978-3-407-79475-8
• Children's artist travel book, Beltz & Gelberg, 2014, ISBN 978-3-407-79569-4
• Wild & Irresistible Children's Artists Kritzelmini, Beltz & Gelberg, 2014, ISBN 978-3-407-79589-2 , ISBN 978-3-407-79590-8
• 9 children's artist scribble cinemas, flip books to paint on, Beltz & Gelberg, 2015
• Really cozy. The children's artist book on living and building, Beltz & Gelberg, 2015, ISBN 978-3-407-82094-5
• Children's artist experience collector's book, Beltz & Gelberg , 2017, ISBN 978-3-407-82208-6
• ICH SO DU SO, Beltz & Gelberg, 2018, ISBN 978-3-407-82316-8 ,
• Children's artist scribble block, Beltz & Gelberg, 2018
• Children's artist Fratzenbuch, Beltz & Gelberg, 2018, ISBN 978-3-407-75424-0
• Playgrounds, Beltz & Gelberg, 2019, ISBN 978-3-407-75454-7

Exhibitions

• Laboratory samples 1–18, annual retrospective of the laboratory community (1999–2018)
• Pssst ... Exhibition for children at the MMK Frankfurt 2012/2013. Together with eight artists from England, the studio community Labor has developed and designed works for children. The central theme of the exhibition were secrets that were picked up and presented in their various forms.
• Congratulations - 20 years of LABOR studio community , picture book museum Troisdorf , September 7, 2019-10 November 2019.

Awards

• 1999: Äqualis-Preis of the Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth for diploma thesis Bild der Frau
• 2014: Leipzig reading compass for The Courageous Book
• 2018: German Youth Literature Award nomination for ICH SO DU SO
• 2019: Leipzig reading compass for Der Flugplatzspatz took its place on the leaflet

Web links

• Literature by and about Moni Port in the catalog of the German National Library
• Moni Port at the laboratory studio community