Ernst Bornemann

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Ernst Wilhelm Julius Bornemann (born April 12, 1915 in Berlin ; † June 4, 1995 in Scharten , Upper Austria ), also known as Ernest Borneman , was a German anthropologist , psychoanalyst , filmmaker , sexologist , publicist and university lecturer. From 1978 to 1981 he was adjunct professor for psychology at the University of Salzburg. In addition to scientific contributions, he also wrote Jazz critiques and (under the pseudonym Cameron McCabe ) detective novels.

Life

Family and youth

Ernst Bornemann was the only child of the Jewish couple Curt and Hertha (née Blochert) Bornemann, who ran a children's clothing store on Kaiserdamm in Berlin's Westend . He first attended the Grunewald High School .

In 1931 he joined the Sexpol organization founded and directed by the Marxist psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich , the “ Reich Association for Proletarian Sexual Policy ”, a sub-organization of the KPD : He advised young people of the same age on sexual issues and provided them with contraceptives . He also worked as an editor .

As a member of the Socialist Students' Union , he moved to the Karl Marx School in Neukölln , directed by Fritz Karsen , after he had caused a school scandal because of a politically offensive article .

Escape from the National Socialist tyranny

In 1933 Bornemann went to England as an exchange student under an alias without leaving school and anglicized his name to Ernest Borneman. There he met the ethnologist and psychoanalyst Géza Róheim , through whom he also found access to problems of anthropology. At Róheim, he said he did a psychoanalytic training analysis .

In London in 1933 he met Eva Geisel, who was three years older and who was born in London. She went to school in Berlin, where she passed the Abitur examination in 1932 . She broke off her studies in Germany when she returned to London in the autumn of 1933 because she was of Jewish descent. She later moved to Canada, where she married Ernest Borneman, who had since been deported there, in 1943. Stephen Borneman, born in 1947, emerged from this marriage.

Bornemann wrote in 1937 the "detective story with which all detective stories have an end" ( Julian Symons ), a detective novel with the title The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor under the pseudonym Cameron McCabe . He started this novel at the age of 18, when he was new to the English language. The book was nevertheless highly praised by the critics. B. by the respected critic Herbert Read . It had eight subsequent editions and was translated into French. It was published in German in 1969 under the title Silent witnesses don't lie .

In 1940 Bornemann was arrested as an " enemy alien " and interned in northern Ontario . Alexander Paterson, the British prison commissioner who knew Borneman from London, recognized him on an inspection of the prison and had him released. Paterson put him in contact with John Grierson , who helped set up Canada's National Film Board and gave Bornemann a job as a film cutter. Among other things, he was involved in editing the propaganda film Action Stations . Graham McInnes describes his work as a mixture of Teutonic accuracy and Jewish extroverted lyricism. In Canada he wrote six more detective novels while continuing to study anthropology as a self-taught artist . He also published a book on jazz, a collection of articles from his time in London. He returned to Great Britain in the 1950s. There he wrote scripts for the series The Adventures of Robin Hood and the film Bang! You're dead . His book Tremolo and Face the Music , which plays on the London jazz scene, was made into a film in 1954.

Return to Germany

In 1960 Bornemann, who had worked successfully as an editor and screenwriter in Great Britain, returned from emigration because he had been offered the post of program manager in the so-called Free Television , a company that was planned by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer to compete with the ARD . Bornemann was unable to assert his ideas there. A little later he designed the legendary Beat-Club television format for Radio Bremen , but was out of the question as a presenter due to his age.

Working in Austria and Germany

Bornemann settled permanently in Scharten in Upper Austria in 1970 . Here he wrote his main work The Patriarchate. Origin and future of our social system , an extensive study, which he himself described as “the capital” of the women's movement. With her he received his doctorate in 1976 at the University of Bremen under Gerhard Vinnai .

Bornemann has been able to give lectures at the Salzburg University since the 1970s, although he did not have a regular academic career, and from 1978 as a professor (= titular professor). “He was”, reports the former student Gerhild Trübswasser in 1994 , “for me and probably also for a whole generation of students [...] an extremely important teacher. Every Friday, students interested in psychoanalysis and politically engaged met in the lecture “bei Bornemann”.

The German Society for Social Science Sex Research (DGSS) honored him in 1990 with the award of the Magnus Hirschfeld Medal for Sexology. Bornemann was honorary chairman of the DGSS and of the Austrian Society for Sex Research, which he founded in 1979, until his death .

death

Bornemann, who had been widowed since the death of his wife Eva in 1987, died of suicide after a failed relationship with a younger colleague . His urn was buried in notches in the garden of his house and later reburied in the community's Catholic cemetery.

Publications

Novels

  • The face on the cutting room floor. Withy Grove Press, London 1937 ; With an introduction by Jonathan Coe . Picador Classic, London 2016, ISBN 978-1-5098-2981-1 .
    • German: Mute witnesses do not lie. Translated from Eva Geisel. Scherz, Bern 1969.
  • Tremolo. Jarrolds, London 1948; under the title Something Wrong. Four Square Books, London 1960.
    • German: On the line the hereafter. Translated from Eva Geisel. Scherz, Bern 1968.
  • The Man who Loved Women. Coward McCann, New York 1968; Bruce & Watson, London 1970.

Non-fiction

  • Lexicon of love and sexuality. 2 volumes. Paul List Verlag, Munich 1968.
  • Popularly sex. The sexual colloquial language of the German people. Dictionary and thesaurus . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1971, ISBN 3-498-00428-X .
  • Studies on the Liberation of the Child. 3 volumes. 1973 ff.
    • Volume 1: Our children in the mirror of their songs, rhymes, verses and riddles. Walter Verlag, Olten 1973; Reprint: Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Vienna 1980, ISBN 3-548-35027-5 .
    • Volume 2: The child's environment in the mirror of his "forbidden" songs, rhymes, verses and riddles. Walter Verlag, Olten 1974; Reprint: Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Vienna 1980, ISBN 3-548-35045-3 .
    • Volume 3: The world of adults in the "forbidden" rhymes of German-speaking city children. Walter Verlag, Olten 1976; Reprint: Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Vienna 1981, ISBN 3-548-35078-X .
  • with Heinz Körner a. a .: jealousy. A reading book for adults. Lucy Körner Verlag , Fellbach (October) 1979, ISBN 3-922028-01-2 .
  • with Heinz Körner and Roland Kübler: A man's dream (a): A reading book for adults. Lucy Körner Verlag, Fellbach (October) 1984, ISBN 3-922028-08-X .
  • Psychoanalysis of Money. A critical examination of psychoanalytic monetary theories. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1973, ISBN 3-518-02241-5 .
  • Popularly sex. The obscene vocabulary of the Germans. 2 volumes. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1974; New one-volume edition, ibid. 1991.
    • Volume 1: The obscene vocabulary of the Germans. Dictionary from A to Z. ISBN 3-499-16852-9 (= rororo 6852).
    • Volume 2: The Obscene Vocabulary of the Germans. Dictionary according to subject groups. ISBN 3-499-16853-7 (= rororo 6853).
  • The patriarchy. Origin and future of our social system. S. Fischer, 1975; as Fischer-TB, Frankfurt am Main 1979, ISBN 3-596-23416-6 .
  • The original scene. The tragic childhood experience and its consequences. S. Fischer 1977; as Fischer-TB, Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-596-26711-0 .
  • Maturation stages of childhood. Jugend und Volk, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-7141-5262-8 .
  • We don't do long crap ... 614 children's verses, collected in Germany, Austria and Switzerland in the 2 decades 1960–1980. Fischer-TB, Frankfurt am Main 1981, ISBN 3-596-23045-4 .
  • as publisher: labor movement and feminism. Reports from fourteen countries. Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Vienna 1982, ISBN 3-548-35138-7 .
  • as editor: The Neanderberg. Contributions to the history of emancipation in the 19th and 20th centuries. Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-548-35183-2 .
  • Lexicon of Sexuality. Herrsching 1984.
  • The child's sex life. Urban and Schwarzenberg, Munich / Vienna 1985; dtv-TB, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-423-15041-6 .
  • Red-white-red hearts. The love, marriage and sex life of the Alpine republic. Hannibal, Vienna 1985, ISBN 3-85445-019-2 .
  • The new jealousy. Heyne-TB, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-453-43081-6 .
  • Selected texts. Goldmann-TB, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-442-11052-1 .
  • Ullstein Encyclopedia of Sexuality. Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-550-06447-0 .
  • Sexual market economy. On the movement of goods and sex in civil society. Promedia, Vienna 1992; Reprint: Fischer-TB 12025, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-596-12026-8 .
  • The future of love (= Fischer-TB. Volume 13232). Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-596-13232-0 .

literature

  • A miserable life. Portrait of a non-conformist. Festschrift for Ernest Borneman on his eightieth birthday. In: Sigrid Standow (ed.): The green branch . tape 179 . Pieper's MedienXperimente, Löhrbach 1995, ISBN 3-925817-79-4 .
  • Nicole Brunnhuber: Ernest Borneman: Popular Fiction and the Political Cause. In: Nicole Brunnhuber: The faces of Janus: English language fiction by German speaking exiles in Great Britain, 1933–1945. Lang, New York 2005, pp. 237-257.
  • JM Ritchie : Ernst Bornemann and “The Face on the Cutting Room Floor”. In: J. M. Ritchie: German exiles: British perspectives. Lang, New York 1997, ISBN 0-8204-3743-3 , pp. 47-78.
  • Detlef Siegfried : Modern lusts. Ernest Borneman - jazz critic, filmmaker, sex researcher. Wallstein, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8353-1673-7 .
  • Volkmar Sigusch : History of Sexology. Campus, Frankfurt am Main / New York 2008, ISBN 978-3-593-38575-4 , pp. 443-448.
  • Volkmar Sigusch: Ernest Borneman (1915–1995). In: Volkmar Sigusch, Günter Grau (Hrsg.): Personal Lexicon of Sexual Research. Campus, Frankfurt am Main / New York 2009, ISBN 978-3-593-39049-9 , pp. 73-78.

Web links

Wikiquote: Ernst Wilhelm Julius Bornemann  - Quotes

Remarks

  1. ↑ http://m.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-9198699.html
  2. ↑ On the "Sexpol" cf. their journal for political psychology and sex economics
  3. ↑ a b c Jonathan Coe: Whodunnit and whowroteit. In: Guardian September 2, 2016, Review p. 20.
  4. ↑ Like other “inconsistencies” in his career, this statement was later used by critics such as Volkmar Sigusch ( Der Ratschläger. Sexologie als Phrase. In: Pro Familia Magazin 15, 12-16, 1987; expanded in Volkmar Sigusch: Anti-Moralia Sexualpolitical Commentaries . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt / M. / New York 1990, pp. 84–94 and documents pp. 208–209), cast in doubt. - There is no other evidence than his own statement for Bornemann's work in Wilhelm Reich's "Sexpol" organization.
  5. ↑ The identity of the author was only revealed when the Gollancz publishing house organized a facsimile edition of the 1937 edition in 1974 and initiated inquiries into heirs or other rights holders.
  6. ↑ See: A Dossier on a vanished author and a vanished book . In: Sigrid Standow (Ed.): A lüderliches Leben. Pieper's MedienXperimente, Löhrbach 1995, pp. 87-107
  7. ^ Gene Walz (Ed.): Graham McInnes, One Man's Documentary: A Memoir of the Early Years of the National Film Board. University of Manitoba Press 2004, ISBN 978-0-88755-679-1 .
  8. ^ Ernest Jules Borneman: A critic looks at jazz. Jazz Music Books, London 1946.
  9. ↑ Detlef Siegfried : Modern lusts. Ernest Borneman - jazz critic, filmmaker, sex researcher. Wallstein, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8353-1673-7 .
  10. ↑ Gerhild Trübswasser: Ernest Bornemann. In: Werkblatt. Journal for Psychoanalysis and Social Criticism, No. 33, 2/1994, pp. 4–5 ( digitized version ).
  11. ↑ Späth / Aden (Ed.): The abused Republic - Enlightenment about the Enlightenment. Hamburg / London 2010, p. 128.
personal data
SURNAME Bornemann, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bornemann, Ernst Wilhelm Julius; McCabe, Cameron (pen name); Borneman, Ernest (anglicized name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German anthropologist and sex researcher
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 4th 1995
Place of death Scharten near Eferding , Upper Austria