Peter Berlin

• Name — Peter Berlin • Birth Name — Armin Hagen von Hoyningen-Huene • Other Names — Peter Burian (credited in film) • Birthplace — Lodz, General Government (now Poland) • Born — 28 December 1942 • Occupation — * Photographer • artist • filmmaker (as producer, director and screenwriter) • clothing designer • model • Family — George Hoyningen-Huene (Great Uncle)

Peter Berlin was born on December 28, 1942, in German-occupied Litzmannstadt (now Łódź), Poland, but he grew up in an aristocratic family in Berlin, Germany. He is the second of the three children. The extended family included the Russian American 1920s and 1930s fashion photographer George Hoyningen-Huene.

Berlin designed and sewed all of his clothing without a pattern. He also was a painter and illustrator. 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. Many of his designs are now seen in the fashion works of such international designers such as Jean Paul Gaultier.

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. 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 2006, Berlin launched a web site devoted to his work. In 2025, Permission to Stare, a new retrospective exhibition of Berlin's work, was presented by Mariposa Gallery during Frieze Los Angeles.

• Long features • 1973: Nights in Black Leather (actor) • 1974: That Boy (director, producer, writer, actor) • Documentary • 2005: That Man: Peter Berlin • Shorts • 1973: Waldeslust • 1974-6: Search • 1974-6: Ciro and Peter • 1976-7: Blueboys

Peter Berlin is recorded with the occupation pornographic film actor. Classed in the genre pornographic film. Recorded as photographer, cinematographer, film producer, actor and director. Recorded at birth as Armin Hagen Freiherr von Hoyningen-Huene. Identity and origins. He also worked under the name Peter Burian. His recorded language was German.

He received post-secondary education in Germany as a photo-technician. 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, Brigitte Bardot and Klaus Kinski

Berlin'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. Although 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. He was trained in Germany as a photo technician in the 1960s.