Ernest Borneman
Appearance
Ernst Wilhelm Julius Bornemann (12 April 1915 – 4 June 1995),[1] also known by his self-chosen anglicisation Ernest Borneman, was a German crime writer, filmmaker, anthropologist, ethnomusicologist, psychoanalyst, sexologist, communist agitator, jazz musician and critic.
Bibliography
[edit]Novels
[edit]- The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor (1937) (as Cameron McCabe); London : Picador Classic, 2016 (with an introduction by Jonathan Coe), ISBN 978-1-5098-2981-1
- Tremolo (1938)
- Face the Music (1954)
- Tomorrow Is Now (1959)
- The Compromisers (1961)
- The Man Who Loved Women (aka Landscape with Nudes) (1968)
Screenplays
[edit]- Face The Music (1954), aka The Black Glove in the U.S.A.
- Bang, You're Dead (1954), co-written with Guy Elmes, aka Game Of Danger
Jazz writings
[edit]- "Swing Music. An Encyclopaedia of Jazz" (unpublished typescript, 580pp., 1940)
- A Critic Looks at Jazz (1946; collected criticism from his column in the jazz periodical The Record Changer, "An Anthropologist Looks at Jazz"; the only jazz book ever published by Borneman)
- "The Roots of Jazz", in Nat Hentoff and Albert J. McCarthy, eds., Jazz (New York: Rinehart, 1959)[2]
Non-fiction
[edit]- Lexikon der Liebe und Erotik (1968)
- Psychoanalyse des Geldes. Eine kritische Untersuchung psychoanalytischer Geldtheorien (1973)
- Studien zu Befreiung des Kindes, 3 vols. (1973)
- Der obszöne Wortschatz der Deutschen—Sex im Volksmund (1974)
- Das Patriarchat. Ursprung und Zukunft unseres Gesellschaftssystems (1975)
- Die Ur-Szene. Eine Selbstanalyse (autobiographical, 1977)
- Reifungsphasen der Kindheit. Sexuelle Entwicklungspsychologie (1981)
- Die Welt der Erwachsenen in den verbotenen Reimen deutschsprachiger Stadtkinder (1982)
- Rot-weiß-rote Herzen. Das Liebes-, Ehe- und Geschlechtsleben der Alpenrepublik (1984)
- Das Geschlechtsleben des Kindes. Beiträge zur Kinderanalyse und Sexualpädologie (1985)
- Die neue Eifersucht. Starke Männer zeigen Schwäche: Sie werden eifersüchtig (1986)
- Ullstein Enzyklopädie der Sexualität (1990)
- Sexuelle Marktwirtschaft. Vom Waren- und Geschlechtsverkehr in der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft (1992)
- Die Zukunft der Liebe (2001) (his last book)
Borneman was also a scriptwriter for the British TV series The Adventures of Aggie (1956) about the adventures of a fashion designer on international assignments.
Borneman directed the 20 minute Canadian documentary Northland (1942) and also the 15 minute documentary written by Leslie McFarlane, Target - Berlin (Objectif Berlin) (1944).
References
[edit]- ^ Alex Harris Stein (16 October 2013). "Borneman, Ernest [Bornemann, Ernst Wilhelm Julius ]". Grove Music Online (8th ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.A2248442. ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0.
- ^ Hentoff, Nat (1974). Jazz : new perspectives on the history of jazz. New York : Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-306-70592-2. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
Further reading
[edit]- "Afterword". In: Cameron McCabe: The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor (Gregg Press: Boston, Mass., 1981) (includes the tapescript of a long interview with Borneman conducted in 1979 by Reinhold Aman, the editor of the scholarly U.S. periodical Maledicta; reprinted in the 1986 Penguin edition of the novel)
- Ein lüderliches Leben. Portrait eines Unangepaßten, ed. Sigrid Standow (2001).
External links
[edit]- Borneman the jazz fan (in German)
- Über Ernest Borneman, Wilhelm-Reich-Blätter, Heft 3, No.4 (1979), pp. 74–86 (in German).