"I Talk to You All the Time in My Thoughts." Letters

In this friendship, he was the satellite, Hubert Fichte once said, and Peter Michel Ladiges was the ground station. Both shared a passion for literature and ethnology and were looking for new forms of representation. Fichte as an author who wrote many radio features about African-American religions, Ladiges as a freelance radio director who staged Fichte's manuscripts and realised his own ethnological programmes about the indigenous cultures of Central America. The unpublished letters between Fichte and Ladiges are one of the few extensive testimonies to the friendship in Fichte's life, they are an expression of sympathy and care and are evidence of an extremely productive working relationship. The central role that radio played for literature in the 1970s becomes clear as if in passing.