Lotte Reiniger

Lotte Reiniger
Reiniger in 1939
Born
Charlotte Reiniger

(1899-06-02)2 June 1899
Died19 June 1981(1981-06-19) (aged 82)
Occupation(s)Silhouette animator, film director
Years active1918–1979
Notable workThe Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926)
Girl of the Golden West (1942)
SpouseCarl Koch

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,[1] one of the most important devices in pre digital animation.[2] Reiniger worked on more than 40 films throughout her career.[3]

  1. ^ "The life of Lotte Reiniger". Drawn to be Wild. BFI. Archived from the original on 2001-03-03. (an extract from Pilling, Jayne, ed. (1992). Women and Animation: a Compendium. BFI. ISBN 0-85170-377-1.)
  2. ^ "How Disney's Iconic Multiplane Camera Changed Animation | No Film School".
  3. ^ The Art of Lotte Reiniger, parte 1 on YouTube