"Berlin on Berlin" interview by Robert W.You are about to enter a website that contains explicit material (pornography)."Creating Peter Berlin", text and photos by Dennis Forbes-article in After Dark (magazine) February 1975, pages 44–51, with photographic portfolio of Peter Berlin.^ DVD Extras, "That Man: Peter Berlin" (DVD), Water Bearer Films, 2006.^ The von Huene Family: History of the Family and its Baltic Homeland.^ a b c "That Man: Peter Berlin" (Documentary), Gorilla Factory Productions, 2005.^ Anderson, James: "Peter Berlin Sixty-Something German Artist From San Francisco Spent His Entire Life Getting Laid", BUTT Magazine, Summer, 2004.List of male performers in gay porn films.2007: GayVN Awards, Category: "2007 GayVN Hall of Fame Inductees".1974: That Boy (director, producer, writer, actor) (credited as Peter Burian).In 2006, Berlin launched a web site devoted to his work. The documentary premiered at the 2005 Berlin Film Festival and garnered several awards at film festivals worldwide, reconnecting Berlin with his older fans and introducing him to a new generation. In 2005, filmmaker and writer Jim Tushinski directed and co-produced (with Lawrence Helman), the feature-length documentary That Man: Peter Berlin, which began a resurgence of interest in Berlin's works. He was trained in Germany as a photo technician in the 1960s. He was acquainted with ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev.īerlin's photographs and artwork have been exhibited around the world, including the exhibition "Split/Vision" (New York, 1986), curated by Mapplethorpe, and in the exhibition "Berlin on Berlin" (2006) at the Leslie Lohman Gallery in New York.Īlthough he retreated from the limelight in the 1980s, he continues to make videos of himself and lives quietly in San Francisco, where he is still frequently recognized on the streets. Some of his famous friends were Salvador and Gala Dali, Warhol, New York fashion designer Koos, and painter Jochen Labriola. Two Robert Mapplethorpe Polaroid images of Berlin can be seen in the 2008 book, Mapplethorpe: Polaroids, and the Whitney Museum of American Art exhibition of the same name. He was also the subject of several Robert Mapplethorpe photographs, five drawings by Tom of Finland, and at least one photograph by Andy Warhol. His self-portraits were published and sold. He also made four short films in the mid- to late-1970s, which were primarily sold as 8 mm "loops" by mail order. Īs a follow-up, Berlin directed, produced, wrote, and starred in That Boy (1974). Berlin's poster for the film helped make Nights in Black Leather an underground hit. He collaborated with friend Richard Abel on a 16 mm hard-core porn film entitled Nights in Black Leather (1973) in which he played the lead role. In the early 1970s, Berlin moved to San Francisco and became a fixture on the streets with his highly suggestive clothing and constant cruising. Many of his designs are now seen in the fashion works of such international designers such as Jean Paul Gaultier.
He began photographing himself in erotic poses and making skin-tight clothes to wear as he cruised the parks and train stations of Berlin, and the streets of Rome, Paris, New York and San Francisco.
In his early 20s, he worked as a photographer for an interview program on German television, photographing some of Europe's celebrities and film stars, including Alfred Hitchcock, Catherine Deneuve, Bridgette Bardot and Klaus Kinski Fashions īerlin designed and sewed all of his clothing without a pattern. He received post-secondary education in Germany as a photo-technician. The extended family included the Russian American 1920s and 1930s fashion photographer George Hoyningen-Huene. Peter Berlin was born Decemin German-occupied Łódź, Poland, but he grew up in an aristocratic family in Berlin, Germany.