Editing Plonsters (section)

{{Short description|German children's television program}}
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{{Infobox television
| director             = [[Alexander Zapletal]]
| music                = Petar Vanek
| country              = German
| num_seasons          = 2
| num_episodes         = 61
| executive_producer   = [[Ulla Brockenhuus-Schack]]<br>Christian Lehmann
| animator             = [[Axel Nicolai]]<br>[[Isolde Bayer]]
| company              = Anima Studio für Film & Grafik GmbH
| first_aired          = {{Start date|1987||}}
| last_aired           = {{End date|1997||}}
}}
'''''Plonsters''''' is a German animated children's television program produced by Anima Studio für Film & Grafik GmbH in [[Hamburg]], [[Germany]], and Bettina Matthaei for [[Egmont (media group)|Egmont Imagination]]. Each episode is about 3 minutes and 30 seconds long and is produced using [[stop motion]] animation done with [[plasticine]], also called [[claymation]]. The title is a [[portmanteau]] of "plasticine" and "monsters".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Batkin |first=Jane |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ki8lDwAAQBAJ&dq=Plonsters&pg=PA165 |title=Identity in Animation: A Journey into Self, Difference, Culture and the Body |date=2017-02-17 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-317-53325-2 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Crump |first=William D. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7C6NDwAAQBAJ&dq=Plonsters&pg=PA60 |title=Happy Holidays--Animated!: A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film |date=2019-04-18 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-7293-9 |language=en}}</ref> The characters also appeared in educational books.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Baumann |first=Christa |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y03xPQAACAAJ |title=Schreiben und Lesen einfach mit den Plonsters: Kl. 3 |date=2000 |publisher=Augustus-Verlag |isbn=978-3-8043-4136-4 |language=de}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Grimm |first1=Petra |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XeXnnuw6gKIC&dq=Plonsters&pg=PA84 |title=Kinderfernsehen und Wertekompetenz |last2=Horstmeyer |first2=Sandra |last3=Weiss |first3=Jutta |last4=Calmbach |first4=Marc |date=2003 |publisher=Franz Steiner Verlag |isbn=978-3-515-08365-2 |language=de}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4ftEAQAAIAAJ&q=Plonsters |title=Buch Journal |date=2001 |publisher=Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels |language=de}}</ref>