Rudolf Majonica

Rudolf Majonica (born May 18, 1939 in Westphalia , † June 19, 2009 in Munich ) was a German writer and photographer .

Life

After studying philology, Majonca did not go to school, but devoted his entire professional life to the medium of books; After starting out as a lecturer for school and children's books, he became a publisher and a. in houses for photographic literature and works about art or antiques; By working with the photo as a means of education and representation, he came up with his own visual language; He not only presented his own photo textbooks, he also furnished more than forty books partially or entirely with his photos. T. in their own small studio, e.g. Taken during his long journeys around the world.

Majonica died on the evening of June 19, 2009 after a long and serious illness.

Services

For more than a decade, from 1980 to 1990, he had a major impact on the photo specialist literature scene in Germany, for which the German Society for Photography (DGPh) appointed him as a member.

His own literary production includes widespread educational games (Scandinavia, South Africa) and workbooks for the preschool sector, specialist and textbooks on photography and antiques, award-winning children's and historical non-fiction books for young people.

Majonica developed around 40 television programs for Bayerischer Rundfunk - from drafts to personal presentations in front of the camera - on topics from young people's literature such as “The depiction of antiquity in young people's books”, “The third realm in young people's literature” and “Current science fiction Youth book "," Environment and environmental protection as educational goals in youth books "- each shot at locations relevant to the content.

In between, Majonica represented the Federal Republic of Germany on the Executive Committee of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY); of his attempts for the stage only the cemetery comedy "Urnenhalle P - P like Panther" had some success.

Works

• Volume master (learning game) Freising 1972, 12 editions, including South Africa, Finland, Sweden
• Volume apprentice (learning game) Freising / Giengen-Brenz 1974, collaboration with Steiff
• criss-cross (learning game) Illustrations by Annegert Fuchhuber, Freising 1975 License in South Africa
• Riddle peter . Freising 1976, painting and workbooks for the preschool sector, 3 notebooks
• Wizard Peter . Freising 1977, utility model protection for KlappAltar binding, 3 booklets
• The secret of the hieroglyphics . Herder, Freiburg 1985 from 1988 as paperback by dtv 14th revised edition December 2007 License: Netherlands Publishing House Pyramide, 3 editions; Shortlist for the German Youth Literature Prize; Book of the month by the German Academy for Children's and Youth Literature
• With the ship through the desert . Youth non-fiction book, Herder, Freiburg 1988
• Tick, bear and barnabas . Children's book, Georg Bitter Verlag, Recklinghausen 1988 Children's Book of the Month of the German Academy for Children's and Youth Literature
• An iron seal. The invention of the submarine . Youth non-fiction book, Herder Freiburg 1987
• Nude photography . Photo textbook, Augustus Verlag in der Weltbild GmbH, Augsburg 1990
• People and portrait . Portrait photography black and white photo textbook, Augustus Verlag in der Weltbild GmbH, Augsburg 2002, translated into Chinese, Shanghai 2004
• Kitchen antiques . Battenberg Verlag in Weltbild Verlags GmbH 1st edition Augsburg 1998, 2nd edition for the Weltbild catalog 2000, 3rd considerably expanded edition, Munich 2002
• Mago and the big gray elephant . Picture book published by Pattloch Verlag, Munich 2003 Picture book of the month of the German Academy for Children's and Youth Literature