Armin Hagen Freiherr von Hoyningen-Huene (born in 1942) is a photographer, artist, filmmaker, clothing designer/sewer, model and gay sex symbol best known by his stage name Peter Berlin. In the early to mid-1970s, Berlin created some of the most recognizable gay male erotic imagery of his time. Serving as his own photographer, model, and fashion designer, Berlin redefined self-portraiture and became an international sensation.His two films, Nights in Black Leather (1973) and That Boy (1974) (credited in the latter as Peter Burian), played to packed houses for years and, along with other pioneering erotic filmmakers such as Wakefield Poole and Jack Deveau, helped bring gay male erotic films artistic legitimacy.
Eduard Baron von Hoyningen-Huene, Marion von Hoyningen-Huene
Siblings
Mirna von Hoyningen-Huene, Reinhold von Hoyningen-Huene
Movies
Dirty Boots
Star Sign
Capricorn
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Trademark
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Ultra-tight, "saran" wrapped white pants got him his nickname
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Quote
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Also, now for maybe ten years, I say with this Peter, 'Look, if I walk around the streets so outrageous, just the same you can be whomever or whatever you want.' Everyone has a secret fantasy life. I show you that it is possible, you know, to turn your sexual fantasy into reality, if you dare to.
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Fact
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His paternal grandfather is Hoyningen Huene, whose full name is George de Hoyningen Huene, and whose photograph in black and white profile is shown in That Man: Peter Berlin (2005), and who was credited on screen as George Hoyningen-Huene (1900-1968).
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"Freiherr" was included in Berlin's original birth name as the son of a Freiherr, which is a German rank of nobility (no longer granted, but may be inherited), which is approximately translated to, and the approximate equivalent noble rank of Baron.
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Was still known to be living in San Francisco, California, USA. [2012]
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Designed and sewed all of his own clothes and costumes used in all of his films and photo shoots.
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In That Man: Peter Berlin (2005), the documentary about his life, he states on camera that the first sexual feelings that he had with another man was August 13, 1961, which he remembers because that was the day that construction of the Berlin Wall began, and the experience was with one of the East German soldiers building the wall.
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Berlin was a frequent subject of Robert Mapplethorpe, and two Polaroid images of Berlin are contained in the 2008 book, "Mapplethorpe: Polaroids," which was part of Mapplethorpe's little known early period from 1970-1975, and the actual Polaroid shots were also in the Whitney Museum of American Art exhibition "Mapplethorpe: Polaroids," which ran from May 3 to September 7, 2008.
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Dirty Boots
2014
Short
Narrator
Blueboys
1976
Short
Peter
That Boy
1974
Helmut (as Peter Burian)
Nights in Black Leather
1973
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Blueboys
1976
Short producer
That Boy
1974
producer - as Peter Burian
Nights in Black Leather
1973
producer
Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
Blueboys
1976
Short
That Boy
1974
as Peter Burian
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Blueboys
1976
Short
That Boy
1974
as Peter Burian
Miscellaneous
Title
Year
Status
Character
That Man: Peter Berlin
2005
Documentary courtesy of: 'Peter Berlin' photographs and videos / film excerpts courtesy of
Camera Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
That Man: Peter Berlin
2005
Documentary additional camera
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
That Man: Peter Berlin
2005
Documentary very special thanks
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
The New Yorker Presents
2016
TV Series documentary
Himself
That Man: Peter Berlin
2005
Documentary
Himself
Won Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
2007
Hall of Fame
GayVN Awards
Known for movies
That Man: Peter Berlin (2005) as Miscellaneous Crew
$800,000
