# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lotte-reiniger
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:59:17.494Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lotte-reiniger"
name: "Lotte Reiniger"
slug: "lotte-reiniger"
description: "Charlotte \"Lotte\" Reiniger 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."
tagline: "German silhouette animator and film director (1899–1981)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lotte_Reiniger_1939.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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  slug: "directors"
profileType:
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  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1899-06-02"
deathDate: "1981-06-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           21.820248
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0718201"
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    url:       "https://www.lottereiniger.de"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump