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Jana Bach

German pornographic actress

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ119010
Source-derived summary

Jana Bach (born 10 April 1979) is a German pornographic actress, model, and television host.

Adult career

Jana Bach began modeling for the erotic magazine Coupé in 2004, and entered the adult film industry at the German Venus Festival. She has appeared in more than thirty adult films since 2005 (see below), primarily for the Berlin-based Inflagranti-Film label.

Bach participated in a topless women's football match between Austria and Germany as goalkeeper for the Germans. She was quoted, "I was supposed to hold the balls but I really have no idea how to do that".

Awards

2005 Eroticline Award – Best German Newcomer

2006 Eroticline Award – Best Actress (Germany)

2007 Eroticline Award – Best Sex-TV Host

2008 Eroticline Award – Best Crossover Star (Germany)

2009 Eroticline Award – Pornstar of the Year

Partial filmography

2005:

Sex & Lügen

Jana von 0 auf 100

Rocker Queens

Popp oder Hopp – Das Live-Sex-Spiel No. 10

Fetish-Zone: Fußorgasmen

Schwarze Flamme Silverline: Landzucht

Stahlhart: Gefangene der Lust

2006:

Janas Sex-Fantasien

Die Jana Bach Show

Jana Bach: Schlaflos in Berlin

Best of Jana Bach

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Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Jana Bach” is german pornographic actress. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Jana, Bach and German, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1979, 2004, 2005, 2006—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1979-04-10. For this dossier, Jana, Bach and German is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “german pornographic actress” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q119010. VIAF identifies the subject as 3515149416755089730009. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1979, 2004, 2005 and 2006.

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This entry incorporates text from Jana Bach” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.