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 1,011,507 page views. Her biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Lotte Reiniger is the 385th most popular film director (down from 384th in 2019), the 2,072nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,991st in 2019) and the 19th most popular German Film Director.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.18

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Lotte Reiniger has had the most page views in the with 42,378 views, followed by German (11,198), and Spanish (7,487). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malagasy (88.60%), Albanian (36.73%), and Indonesian (36.38%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Lotte Reiniger ranks 385 out of 2,041. Before her are Saul Bass, Alexander Korda, Roland Joffé, Joe Dante, Yorgos Lanthimos, and Patrice Leconte. After her are Sam Mendes, Robert Benton, Gerard Damiano, Wolfgang Reitherman, Edward Yang, and Jacques Copeau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Lotte Reiniger ranks 91. Before her are Richard Hauptmann, Haim Arlosoroff, Benjamin Péret, Osman Batur, Veit Harlan, and Hans Swarowsky. After her are Max Simon, Hans Krása, Andrija Artuković, Maria Yudina, Hans Jeschonnek, and Wolf Messing. Among people deceased in 1981, Lotte Reiniger ranks 60. Before her are Heinz Kohut, Albert Cohen, Mao Dun, Prince Yasuhiko Asaka, Josep Pla, and Giuseppe Pella. After her are Gunichi Mikawa, Valeri Kharlamov, Gloria Grahame, Natalia Pavlovna Paley, Melvyn Douglas, and D. R. Bendre.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Lotte Reiniger ranks 2,072 out of 7,253. Before her are Johann Nepomuk Maelzel (1772), Wilhelm Adam (1877), Otto Dietrich (1897), Peter Lely (1618), Loriot (1923), and Johann Homann (1664). After her are Tobias Mayer (1723), Bruno Loerzer (1891), Princess Maria Anna of Hesse-Homburg (1785), Judith of Swabia (1054), Princess Isabella of Bavaria (1863), and Princess Friederike of Hesse-Darmstadt (1752).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Germany

Among film directors born in Germany, Lotte Reiniger ranks 19. Before her are Douglas Sirk (1897), Thea von Harbou (1888), Robert Siodmak (1900), Mike Nichols (1931), Gustaf Gründgens (1899), and Veit Harlan (1899). After her are Wolfgang Reitherman (1909), Walter Ruttmann (1887), Oskar Fischinger (1900), Walter Frentz (1907), Alexander Kluge (1932), and Henry Koster (1905).

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Filmography

The Adventures of Prince Achmed
Director
Based on stories from "The Arabian Nights". A wicked sorcerer tricks Prince Achmed into riding a magical flying horse. The heroic prince is able to subdue the magical horse, which he uses to fly off to many adventures. While travelling, he falls in love with the beautiful Princess Peri Banu, and must defeat an army of demons to win her heart. The film is animated using the silhouette technique.
Sep 3o 19267.5 / 10
Cinderella
Director
Lotte Reiniger's interpretation of Grimm's recorded version of Aschenputtel (Cinderella) from 1922.
Jan 1o 19226.5 / 10
Papageno
Director
Film shows the story of Papageno (the one from Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute"), who wants a mate, yet has difficulties getting one.
Aug 11o 19356.2 / 10