In the late fifties he worked in Montjustin, not far from Forcalquier in Provence, as a shepherd for several months at painter Serge Fiorio.

Fichte described their friendship in his novel Versuch über die Pubertät (Attempt about the puberty) in 1974.

Fichte's cohabitee (since 1961) Leonore Mau published her photograph volumes Xango and Petersilie at the same time.

In the late sixties, Fichte began writing his main work Die Geschichte der Empfindlichkeit (the history of the sensibility, or: the story of the pettishness) a monumental cycle of novels.

His last set of plans showed his intention to write nineteen books, most of them novels, but also some volumes of essays, called “Glossen”.

For these “Glossen” he wanted to compile and rewrite much of his journalistic work like radio features, news paper articles and interviews.

The novels describe the life of the homosexual writer “Jäcki” and his cohabitee “Irma”, an older woman and photographer.