Patricia Rhomberg

Patricia Rhomberg (born 15 September 1953) is an Austrian former pornographic film actress from the 1970s.

Early career
Rhomberg was working as a medical assistant when she met the German director Hans Billian and began a relationship with him.

In 1975, she appeared in Germany's first hardcore pornographic feature, Bienenstich im Liebesnest, directed by Billian (the soft version was called Im Gasthaus zum scharfen Hirschen, also known as Zimmermädchen machen es gerne). In it she plays Graziella Schill, a woman on the trail of her unfaithful husband. This was a softcore role even in the hardcore version of the film, with scenes framed and edited to suggest Rhomberg is engaged in sexual activity but no visible sex.

Josephine Mutzenbacher
In 1976, Billian gave her the lead role, in part because she had the proper dialect for it, in the adult film ''Josefine Mutzenbacher wie sie wirklich war, 1. Teil (known in English as Sensational Janine''), in which she plays the Viennese prostitute Josephine Mutzenbacher. This film brought her fame in Germany. It inspired numerous sequels, but the original is the only one in which Rhomberg appears.

Jim Holliday has described this film as "easily the best and most accurate of several films based on the life and adventures of legendary Viennese madam Josephine Mutzenbacher" and his "all time foreign favorite" adult film. Sensational Janine was "one of the most successful foreign x-rated films ever to cross the Atlantic", and the movie is "today seen as one of the best porns of all time".

Later career
In 1977, she appeared in Kasimir der Kuckuckskleber. Her role was Larissa Holm, a young woman who agrees with Kasimir Zwickelhuber (played by Sepp Gneißl) to go into prostitution in order to pay off some debts. Around this period she also featured in numerous hardcore loops directed by Billian, such as Venus in Seide and Schwarzer Orgasmus, which were among the first examples of interracial pornography in Germany. In addition to acting, she also worked as a fluffer.

In 1978, she broke with Billian and returned to her original profession.