Charlotte Eleonore Elisabeth (Reiniger) Koch (1899 - 1981)

Born 2 Jun 1899 in Berlin-Charlottenburg, German Empire

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Died 19 Jun 1981 at age 82 in Dettenhausen, Landkreis Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland

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Charlotte (Reiniger) Koch is Notable.

Lotte Reiniger was a German film director and the foremost pioneer of silhouette animation. Her best-known films are The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926), which is the oldest surviving feature-length animated film, and Papageno (1935). Reiniger is also noted for having devised the first form of a multiplane camera.

Charlotte "Lotte" Reiniger was born 2 June 1899 in Berlin-Charlottenburg (the part of Berlin that is in the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf borough), German Empire.^[1][2] She married Carl Koch, a film historian, in 1921, whom she met through the Berliner Institut für Kulturforschung (the Berlin Institute for Cultural Research), with which both were connected.^[3][4][5] She died 19 June 1981 in Dettenhausen, West Germany.^[6] She was buried in Dettenhausen Gemeindefriedhof (Dettenhausen Parish Cemetery), Dettenhausen, Tübinger Landkreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.^[7]

Lotte Reiniger worked in the early film industry as an animator, working primarily with shadow puppets of her own design. Her work as an animator, although far less well known, predates that of Walt Disney by over a decade, her first full-length film being The Adventures of Prince Achmed, which was premiered in 1926.^{[8][9][10][11]} The making of the film took three years.^[12]

The consensus among the various scholars examining her work is that her work was extraordinary. She is credited with being "the inventor of the multiplane camera and producer of the first animated feature film."^[13] Kemp writes of her:

"Among the great figures in animated film, Lotte Reiniger stands alone. No one else has taken a specific animation technique and made it so utterly her own. To date she has no rivals, and for all practical purposes the history of silhouette animation begins and ends with Reiniger. Taking the ancient art of shadow-plays, as perfected above all in China and Indonesia, she adapted it superbly for the cinema."

Sources

1. ↑ Birth Registration: "Berlin, Deutschland, Geburtsregister, 1874-1908"
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry de Record 5753 #849278 (accessed 2 December 2023)
   Charlotte Eleonore Elisabeth Reiniger birth.
2. ↑ Wikipedia
3. ↑ Marriage Registration: "Berlin, Deutschland, Heiratsregister, 1874-1936"
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry de Record 2957 #279215198 (accessed 2 December 2023)
   Charlotte Eleonore Elisabeth Reiniger marriage.
4. ↑ Kemp
5. ↑ Wikipedia
6. ↑ Wikipedia
7. ↑ Find A Grave
8. ↑ Moritz
9. ↑ Kemp
10. ↑ IMDB
11. ↑ Wikipedia
12. ↑ Kemp
13. ↑ Taylor

• Find A Grave, database and images (http://findagrave.com : accessed 9 March 2015), memorial page for Charlotte "Lotte" Reiniger (1899–1981), Find A Grave Memorial no. 133390369, citing Dettenhausen Gemeindefriedhof, Dettenhausen, Tübinger Landkreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; the accompanying biography by Thomas Haas (Find A Grave Member no. 48162931) is materially informative, but does not cite sources; the accompanying photograph of her grave stone by Thomas Haas (Find A Grave Member no. 48162931) is materially informative, providing a legible image of the inscribed data. The second image, depicting a shadow figure, is identified as "Scene from "The Adventures of Prince Achmed."

• Kemp, Phillip. "Reiniger, Lotte (1899-1981): Director, Animator," BFI Screen Online (http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/528134/ : accessed 9 March 2015).

• "Lotte Reiniger (1899–1981)," IMDb.com, Inc. (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0718201/?ref_=nmbio_bio_nm : accessed 9 March 2015).

• "Lotte Reiniger," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lotte_Reiniger&oldid=642033655 : accessed 9 March 2015).

• Moritz, William. "Lotte Reiniger," Animation World Network (1996) (http://www.awn.com/mag/issue1.3/articles/moritz1.3.html : accessed 9 March 2015).

• Taylor, K. Vivian, "National Identity, Gender, and Genre: The Multiple Marginalization of Lotte Reiniger and The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926)" (2011). Graduate Theses and Dissertations. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3377 (http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4572&context=etd : accessed 9 March 2015).

See Also

• Schönfeld, Christiane. "Lotte Reiniger and the Art of Animation." Practicing Modernity: Female Creativity in the Weimar Republic. Königshausen & Neumann, 2006. pgs. 171-190. (https://books.google.com/books?id=A-KFC4vZpHwC&pg=PA173&lpg=PA173&dq=Charlotte+Reiniger+genealogy&source=bl&ots=lkZWIULrAG&sig=icvz6v0fe-Ld9PjtAQ_uuSip9V4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=dTr-VLi9AYupogSqpYD4DQ&ved=0CB4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false : accessed 9 March 2015).

• Strobel, Christel. "Lotte Reiniger: Die Filmpionierin und ihre Scherenschnittfilme" (http://www.lottereiniger.de/lotte_reiniger/portrait.php : accessed 9 March 2015).