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Venus Award
The Venus Award is a film award in the adult film industry presented yearly in Berlin since 1997 as part of the Venus Berlin, an international erotic trade festival, on the exhibition grounds at the Funkturm Berlin, Funkturm. Prizes are offered in some 30 categories and there are live Striptease, strip stage shows with Toplessness, topless Mechanical bull, bull riding, oil wrestling and simulated live sex. The Venus Awards are unique in that Film director, directors, performers and films from the same country (Germany, France, the United States, etc.) compete for honors with other entities from that same country, while all entries also remain eligible for the "European" and "International" award categories. The International Venus Fair for 16–19 October 2003 had attendance figures of around 40,000. From 2005 to 2009, the Eroticline Awards were presented instead, with the Venus Awards returning in 2010. 1997 Venus Awards * Top Seller (USA) - ''Dragon Lady'' * Top Seller (Europ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin
Berlin ( ; ) is the Capital of Germany, capital and largest city of Germany, by both area and List of cities in Germany by population, population. With 3.7 million inhabitants, it has the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, highest population within its city limits of any city in the European Union. The city is also one of the states of Germany, being the List of German states by area, third smallest state in the country by area. Berlin is surrounded by the state of Brandenburg, and Brandenburg's capital Potsdam is nearby. The urban area of Berlin has a population of over 4.6 million and is therefore the most populous urban area in Germany. The Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region, Berlin-Brandenburg capital region has around 6.2 million inhabitants and is Germany's second-largest metropolitan region after the Rhine-Ruhr region, as well as the List of EU metropolitan areas by GDP, fifth-biggest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beate Uhse
Beate Uhse-Rotermund (; born Beate Köstlin , 25 October 1919 – 16 July 2001) was a German pilot, entrepreneur and sex shop pioneer. She was one of the very few female stunt pilots in Germany in the 1930s. During World War II she ferried planes for the German Luftwaffe and after World War II she started a sex shop. The company she started, Beate Uhse AG, is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Early life Uhse was born in Wargenau, a neighborhood of Cranz, East Prussia (now Zelenogradsk, Russia). She was the youngest of three children of the farmer Otto Köstlin and the doctor Magarete Köstlin (one of the first five female doctors in Germany). When she was eight years old, her older brother told her the myth of Icarus. Beate was fascinated by the story, and by the idea of flying—so much so that she gathered chicken feathers and glued together some wings and jumped from her parents' veranda. Beate was a wild child. Her parents did not try to control her; instead the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CoCo Brown
CoCo Brown is an American rapper, DJ, and former pornographic film actress. Brown has also acted in a German crime thriller film written and directed by Christian Alvart. Early life Brown spent part of her childhood in Toledo, Ohio and moved to Las Vegas with her family when she was in middle school. At age 15, she ran away from home and never returned. Career Adult entertainment Brown once worked briefly as a dominatrix. She stopped performing in adult films in 2003. Music Brown launched a rap music career after quitting porn and later worked as a DJ. Suborbital flight Brown had signed up to go on a suborbital flight in 2016, which would have lasted approximately one hour and would have provided 90 seconds of weightlessness. The flight was to have been arranged by the Space Expedition Corporation (SXC), a Netherlands-based space tourism company. This opportunity for her arose in 2012 when she received a "space luncheon" invite by a concierge she knew after another per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Goo Girls
John Thompson Productions is a German pornographic film studio based in Berlin, Germany. The studio is best known for its bukkake-themed series German Goo Girls (GGG), but it has other series focusing on gang bangs, urolagnia and urophagia, BDSM, erotic humiliation and rough sex. The company is one of the best known and top selling German and European porn studios. John Thompson and his films have won or been nominated for several pornography awards, but the perceived extreme nature of its content has led to some of its films being banned in several countries. John Thompson John Thompson (real name Raymond Louis Bacharach; born 11 May 1945) is the producer and director of all John Thompson Productions. He studied psychology and art in West Berlin. Prior to founding his company, he worked as a director and cameraman with the German porn label Puaka. He founded John Thompson Productions in 1997 and so far has produced more than a thousand films, typically releasing six new DVDs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teresa Orlowski
Teresa Orlowski (born 29 July 1953) is a former Polish-German performer in and a current producer of adult films in Germany. She was one of the biggest European porn-stars of the 80s. Early life She was born as Teresa Orłowska in Wrocław, Poland and spent her childhood in Dębica, a small city near Tarnów. Despite being Polish, Orlowski is considered the first true German porn-star. A former veterinary assistant, she came to West-Germany in 1979 and worked first in a nightclub in Wattenscheid, later in a bar at Duisburg Central Station. In 1982, she married pornographic director and photographer Hans Moser. Career She debuted in 1983 in the film ''Foxy Lady'', directed by her then-husband Hans Moser. She starred in two early examples of interactive pornography, ''Mopsparade'' (1994) and ''Teresa O. The CD-ROM edition'' (1995). Together with Moser, she founded the Hannover-based adult production company "VTO" (Verlag Teresa Orlowski/Video Teresa Orlowski); the company went b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monique Covét
Monique Covét (born Mónika Visi; 14 July 1976) is a Hungarian pornographic actress, fetish model, glamour model, and sexologist. She achieved international fame from 1998 as an exclusive model for Private Media Group working worldwide. Following her international porn career, she moved to Rome and studied fashion design. In 2015, she was awarded a Diploma in Fashion and Design from Accademia del Lusso, Roma. In 2019, she graduated as a sexologist and began working in this field, continuing her studies further. She launcheonline adviceon sexuality and personal relationships. In 2024, she received additional certification as a personal relationship coach and counsellor. She is fluent in English, German, Italian, and Hungarian. Early career By her own account, Monique Covét started her career in the world of hardcore porn almost by accident. After arriving in Paris for what she believed was another series of routine modeling shoots, her agent there recommended her for a Priv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toni Ribas
Toni Ribas (born 13 June 1975 as Antoni García Cabra) is a Spanish pornographic actor and director. In 2010, he was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame. Ribas began acting in pornography in 1994. Ribas worked for Brazzers and performed in 78 videos as of 2 November 2018. He performed in about 1,300 videos in his pornographic career. Early life Ribas was born in Sant Boi de Llobregat, in the Province of Barcelona, Spain. At 13, he was hyperactive, had boundless energy and a tendency to get into trouble. He belonged to the Unió Esportiva Santboiana rugby club. He was also dedicated to helping his father with maintenance services such as injection molds and special tools. During his studies at the Bachillerato Unificado Polivalente (BUP) in Sant Boi in Barcelona, he earned extra money selling calculators. Some time later, he completed his military service. Career In 1994, at the age of 19, Ribas saw an ad in the newspaper ''Segunda Mano'' about working for actors in pornographic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Woodman
Pierre Woodman (born Pierre André Nicolas Gerbier; 29 April 1963) is a French pornographic film director. He is best known for his casting series where he specializes in having first-time female adult models perform rough anal sex and double penetration. Woodman has been accused of violating consent and coercing models to perform acts against their will, including using physical violence to force models to swallow semen and urine. Early in his career, Woodman would arrange meetings with women in hotel rooms under the guise of fashion modelling before revealing his intent of having them engage in sexual acts. Career Woodman joined the army at age 17, and later became a policeman. In 1986, he started a career as a fashion and TV photographer. In 1989, he took part in launching the magazine ''Hot Video'', as a reporter. In 1992, he started working for Private Media Group, Inc., for which he made several movies, such as ''The Pyramid'', ''Tatiana'', and ''Riviera''. In 1997, Woodman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Dorcel
Marc Dorcel (born in March 1934 as Marcel Herskovitz ) is a French-Hungarian producer of adult erotic films who founded the company Video Marc Dorcel (or simply Marc Dorcel). Besides producing films by himself, he also produces films in partnership with people like Michel Ricaud, Cyril Randuineau, Marc Ange and Julo Kaiel. Dorcel is known for the long-running ''Pornochic'' film series. Dorcel was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame in 2015. In the 1990s, Marc Dorcel became the first French porn producer to employ actresses under exclusivity contracts. Dorcel's first brand ambassador, in the late 1990s, was Laure Sainclair, followed by other female performers such as Mélanie CostePhilippe VecchiMélanie, mon ange pervers '' GQ'' France, August 2008 and Yasmine Lafitte. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gina Wild
Michaela Schaffrath (' Jänke; born 6 December 1970) is a German television actress and former pornographic film, pornographic actress. A former nurse, she got started in the adult film industry after she posed nude for ''Coupé'', a German adult magazine. She gained international attention during her career as a pornographic actress under the stage name Gina Wild. She won two Venus Awards, for Best New Starlet in 1999 and Best German Actress in 2000. In 2000, Schaffrath retired from pornography and moved into mainstream acting, and has since appeared in numerous German television series, such as ''TV total'', ''In aller Freundschaft'', and ''Wer wird Millionär? (Germany), Wer wird Millionär?''. In 2005, she put the rights to her stage name and the brand 'Gina Wild' up for sale, in an attempt to shed her porn star past. She is managed by her former husband, and as of 2009, lived in both Frankfurt and Hamburg. References External links * * * * * {{DEFAULTSOR ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Moser (director)
Hans Moser (30 September 1944 - 2 July 2016) was prominent as a pornographic film-director and - producer, photographer, and magazine publisher. He is also known as Sascha Alexander. Born in Hanover, Germany, he was the eldest son of ethnic German jewish refugees from Romania and Hungary. He discovered Teresa Orlowski in 1981. He married her in 1982 in a ceremony in Las Vegas. They divorced in 1989. He then married Sarah Louise Young on 13 January 1991, but they divorced amicably a decade later. Hans Moser's grandson, Paul Moser, currently works and lives in St Louis, MO. Selected filmography *''Born for Love'' (1987) - a German-American co-production featuring Sibylle Rauch, John Leslie, Karin Schubert Karin Schubert (born 26 November 1944) is a German actress. She appeared in film roles since 1970 and became a pornographic actress in the 1980s. Cinema career Her early roles included the Spaghetti Western '' Compañeros'' (1970) and Gérard ..., Joey Silvera, Elle R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Private Media Group
Private Media Group, Inc. is a Swedish production and distribution company that distributes adult entertainment via print publications, DVDs, and the Internet. It first published a magazine called ''Private'' in Stockholm in 1965. Origins ''Private'' magazine was established in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1965 as the world's first full-color hardcore magazine by Berth Milton Sr. In the early 1990s, his son Berth Milton Jr. took over and started to produce movies and internet content, taking Private public soon after. Product lines The firm provides content through DVD, Video on Demand (VOD), Internet Protocol television (IPTV), PSP, mobile and magazines. It supplies adult entertainment films to thousands of major hotels around the world through their Hotel Pay Per View services. The company also runs the adult channels Private TV (Europe) and Private Gold (Latin America) In 1998 the company launched Private Circle, a designer clothing label, at the Cannes Film Festival. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
