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FILM DIRECTOR

Lotte Reiniger

1899 - 1981

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Charlotte "Lotte" Reiniger (2 June 1899 – 19 June 1981) was a German film director and the foremost pioneer of silhouette animation. Her best known films are The Adventures of Prince Achmed, from 1926, the oldest surviving feature-length animated film, and Papageno (1935). Reiniger is also noted for having devised, from 1923 to 1926, the first form of a multiplane camera, one of the most important devices in pre digital animation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lotte Reiniger has received more than 1,015,386 page views. Her biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Lotte Reiniger is the 385th most popular film director (down from 342nd in 2019), the 1,993rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,815th in 2019) and the 18th most popular German Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Lotte Reiniger ranks 385 out of 1,581. Before her are Adrian Lyne, Sofia Coppola, Robert Benton, Emilio Fernández, Philippe Garrel, and Jacques Audiard. After her are Jean Girault, Marcel Camus, John McTiernan, Sam Wood, Jerzy Hoffman, and Yuri Norstein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Lotte Reiniger ranks 86. Before her are Nikolay Voronov, Akim Tamiroff, Hans Krása, Veit Harlan, Hans Swarowsky, and Wolf Messing. After her are Nicolas Frantz, Eugene Ormandy, Wilhelm Röpke, John Barbirolli, Marcel Dalio, and Gustaf Gründgens. Among people deceased in 1981, Lotte Reiniger ranks 65. Before her are Josep Pla, Alberto Suppici, Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai, Gunichi Mikawa, Valeri Kharlamov, and Albert Cohen. After her are Kirill Kondrashin, Yakov Pavlov, Nisargadatta Maharaj, Nelson Algren, D. R. Bendre, and Ziaur Rahman.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Lotte Reiniger ranks 1,993 out of 6,142. Before her are Princess Maria Augusta of Saxony (1782), Andreas Cellarius (1596), John II, Duke of Bavaria (1341), Wilhelm Dörpfeld (1853), Karl Ernst (1904), and Paul Gerhardt (1607). After her are William, Prince of Hohenzollern (1864), Landgravine Marie Louise of Hesse-Kassel (1688), Gershon Kingsley (1922), Eduard Meyer (1855), Julius Plücker (1801), and Siegfried Marcus (1831).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Germany

Among film directors born in Germany, Lotte Reiniger ranks 18. Before her are Robert Siodmak (1900), Thea von Harbou (1888), Douglas Sirk (1897), Margarethe von Trotta (1942), Mike Nichols (1931), and Veit Harlan (1899). After her are Gustaf Gründgens (1899), Wolfgang Reitherman (1909), Oskar Fischinger (1900), Peter Stein (1937), Alexander Kluge (1932), and Walter Ruttmann (1887).

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Filmography

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