Ernest Borneman Explained

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

Novels

• The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor (1937) (as Cameron McCabe); London : Picador Classic, 2016 (with an introduction by Jonathan Coe),
• Tremolo (1938)
• Face the Music (1954)
• Tomorrow Is Now (1959)
• The Compromisers (1961)
• The Man Who Loved Women (aka Landscape with Nudes) (1968)

Screenplays

• 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

• "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 An Encyclopaedia of Jazz" (unpublished typescript, 580pp., 1940)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

• 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).

Further reading

• "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

• Borneman the jazz fan (in German)
• Über Ernest Borneman, Wilhelm-Reich-Blätter, Heft 3, No.4 (1979), pp. 74–86 (in German).

Notes and References

1. Alex Harris Stein. Borneman, Ernest [Bornemann, Ernst Wilhelm Julius ]. 10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.A2248442. 16 October 2013.
2. Book: Hentoff . Nat . Jazz : new perspectives on the history of jazz . 1974 . New York : Da Capo Press . 978-0-306-70592-2 . 15 March 2021.