Ernst Wilhelm Julius Bornemann (April 12, 1915 – June 4, 1995) was a
German crime writer, filmmaker,
anthropologist,
ethnomusicologist,
jazz musician, jazz
critic,
psychoanalyst,
sexologist, and committed
socialist. All these diverse interests, he claimed, had a common root in his lifelong insatiable
curiosity. From 1982 to 1986 he was president of the
German Society for Social-Scientific Sexuality Research. In 1990 he was awarded the
Magnus Hirschfeld Medal for sexual science.