Lotte Reiniger (1899-1981) was a German film director and animator, considered a pioneer of animation. She is celebrated for developing a unique silhouette animation technique, using intricate figures cut from paper and animated frame by frame. Her most important work is *The Adventures of Prince Achmed* (1926), the oldest surviving animated feature film, made a decade before Disney's *Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs*. For this film, Reiniger developed an early version of the multiplane camera, anticipating later technical innovations by years. Her extensive filmography includes over forty short films, often inspired by classic fairy tales and operas. Forced to leave Nazi Germany, she worked in several European countries before settling in the United Kingdom. For her fundamental contribution to cinema, she received prestigious awards, including the Filmband in Gold at the Deutscher Filmpreis in 1972 and the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1979.