Siegfried Bernfeld was born on July 17, 1901 in Gumbinnen, East Prussia, Germany [now Gusev, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia]. He was a writer, known for Liebe im Mai (1929), Die grosse Liebe (1931) and L'inconnu d'un soir (1949). He died on November 27, 1980 in New York, USA.