- "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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Designed and sewed all of his own clothes and costumes used in all of his films and photo shoots.
- His paternal grandfather is George 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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