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. Reiniger worked on more than 40 films throughout her career. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lotte Reiniger is the 364th most popular film director (up from 385th in 2019), the 2,038th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,072nd in 2019) and the 17th most popular German Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Lotte Reiniger ranks 364 out of 2,041. Before her are Edward Yang, Alexander Sokurov, Héctor Babenco, Eldar Ryazanov, Veljko Bulajić, and Chris Sanders. After her are Alexandre Astruc, Veit Harlan, Édouard Molinaro, Leos Carax, Márta Mészáros, and Walerian Borowczyk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Lotte Reiniger ranks 83. Before her are Fritz Bayerlein, Hayato Ikeda, Marcel Achard, Raoul Salan, Ida Kamińska, and Martin Luther King Sr.. After her are Veit Harlan, Adam Rainer, Nikolay Voronov, Pancho Vladigerov, Michał Kalecki, and Soraya Tarzi. Among people deceased in 1981, Lotte Reiniger ranks 61. Before her are Melvyn Douglas, Josep Pla, Donald Wills Douglas Sr., Heinz Kohut, Mike Hailwood, and Giuseppe Pella. After her are Franjo Šeper, Ella Grasso, Valeri Kharlamov, Nelson Algren, Lotte Lenya, and Christy Brown.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Lotte Reiniger ranks 2,039 out of 7,253. Before her are Theodore of Corsica (1694), Rupert II, Elector Palatine (1325), Ulrich von Hassell (1881), Manfred Wörner (1934), Axel Springer (1912), and Prince Hubertus of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1909). After her are Klaus Augenthaler (1957), Hinrich Lohse (1896), Dieter Schwarz (1939), Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge (1795), Christian the Younger of Brunswick (1599), and Hieronymus Wolf (1516).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Germany

Among film directors born in Germany, Lotte Reiniger ranks 17. Before her are Roland Emmerich (1955), Margarethe von Trotta (1942), Thea von Harbou (1888), Mike Nichols (1931), Douglas Sirk (1897), and Robert Siodmak (1900). After her are Veit Harlan (1899), Gustaf Gründgens (1899), Wolfgang Reitherman (1909), Walter Frentz (1907), Walter Ruttmann (1887), and Werner Schroeter (1945).

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