The exhibition and publication project Hubert Fichte: Love and Ethnology explores the possibilities and limits of using self-reflection and gay sexuality as research tools to restitute the ethnological observations and feelings on Afro-diasporic cultures of a German writer. The project is based on Hubert Fichte's cycle of novels Die Geschichte der Empfindlichkeit, which reflects his fascination with Afro-diasporic arts and religions. The final exhibition Love and Ethnology The Colonial Dialectic of Sensitivity (after Hubert Fichte) at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin presents these reflections against the background of the relationship between ethnology and the aesthetic avant-garde in post-war West Germany.