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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 trade fair, an international erotic trade festival, on the exhibition grounds at the Funkturm. Prizes are offered in some 30 categories and there are live strip stage shows with topless bull riding, oil wrestling and simulated live sex. The Venus Awards are unique in that 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 (Europe) - ''Private Stories'' * Best Film (USA) - ''Clockwork ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin
Berlin ( , ) is the capital and List of cities in Germany by population, largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's States of Germany, sixteen constituent states, Berlin is surrounded by the Brandenburg, State of Brandenburg and contiguous with Potsdam, Brandenburg's capital. Berlin's urban area, which has a population of around 4.5 million, is the second most populous urban area in Germany after the Ruhr. The Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region, Berlin-Brandenburg capital region has around 6.2 million inhabitants and is Metropolitan regions in Germany, Germany's third-largest metropolitan region after the Rhine-Ruhr and Frankfurt Rhine-Main, Rhine-Main regions. Berlin straddles the banks of the Spree (river), Spree, which flows into the Havel (a tributary of ... [...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 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 the first sex shop in the world. 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 he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CoCo Brown
CoCo Brown is an American rapper, DJ and former pornographic actress. Early life Brown 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 was stripping at Déjà Vu in Las Vegas, where she danced for about seven months, when she was discovered by porn producer Nicky Starks. She entered the adult film industry in 1998. Her first scene was in ''Bomb Ass Pussy''. She initially used the stage name Honey Love. In 2001, she signed an exclusive deal with DBM, a studio for which she did about 19 films. She began using the stage name CoCo Brown in her second film for the studio. She stopped performing in adult films in 2003. She once worked briefly as a dominatrix as well. Music Brown launched a music career after quitting porn. She rapped under the stage name Ms No Tonsils between 2004 and 2009. She is currently working as a DJ. Suborbital flight Brown had signed up to go on a ... [...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 n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teresa Orlowski
Teresa Orlowski (born 29 July 1953) is a former German-Polish 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 we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monique Covét
Monique Covét (born Mónika Visi, on 14 July 1976) is a Hungarian pornographic actress and fetish model. She rose to prominence from 1998 to 2001 as the star of several features for the Private Media Group. Following her career as an international porn star she moved to Rome and studied fashion. In 2015 she was awarded a Diploma in Fashion and Design from Accademia del Lusso, Roma. In 2019, she received a diploma as a sex therapist from Semmelweis UniversityTraining Centre, Budapest. Also in 2019, she launcheonline adviceon sexuality and personal relationships. 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 Private Media casting session where she met French hardcore director and actor Pierre Woodman. "They offered me a l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toni Ribas
Toni Ribas (born 13 June 1975 as Antoni G Cabra) is a Spanish pornographic actor and director. In 2010, he was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame. He became a leading male figure in the porn industry. 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 ''Segun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Woodman
Pierre Woodman (born 29 April 1963) is a French pornographic film director. Early life Woodman began working at 16, taking such jobs as bartender, salesman and store clerk. He 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. Beginning in 1992, he worked for Private Media Group, Inc., for which he made several movies, such as ''The Pyramid'', ''Tatiana'', and ''Riviera''. Movies In 1997, he launched his series "Casting X" (see below), which is now the longest-running and subsequently as well biggest-selling series in the X-rated category in the world. In 1999, Woodman began to produce and release his ''Superfuckers'' series for Private, which ran to 12 chapters. At the end of the year, he received an invitation from Larry Flynt, owner of LFP, Inc. and a publisher of the magazine ''Hustler''. Woodman began Chapter 13 of Supe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Dorcel
Marc Dorcel (born in March 1934) 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 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 notoriety 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 2001, 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?''. After being recognized by a fan, she admitted in 2003 that she was working in a Frankfurt brothel, but stated it was because she was addicted to sex, rather than to make money. 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 ... [...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 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, Joey Silvera, Elle Rio, Jamie Summers, Tom Byron, Sharon Kane Sharon Kane is a former American bondage model and pornographic actress. She has appeared in many adult magazines and pornographic films, in both dominant and submissive roles. After leaving her home state of Ohio to ... [...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, the internet, and mobile. 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 moved the company's headquarters to Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain, although the company is incorporated in Nevada. Milton also 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 Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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