2021
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News
„The word that best describes the current situation is Reinvention.”
In the past several months, Frankfurter Buchmesse organised digital workshops for publishers from Latin America, Arabic-language countries, Africa and Southeast Asia to support the participants in selling rights internationally – especially in times of the global COVID-19 pandemic. We asked Genoveva Muñoz, publisher of La Cifra Editorial in Mexico, to share her insights on the Mexican market and how she benefited from the Frankfurt Rights International workshop held by Frankfurter Buchmesse.
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Renewed funding from the German government’s NEUSTART KULTUR programme gives exhibitors financial planning security
Exhibitors can now register for the 73rd Frankfurter Buchmesse. Thanks to additional funds from the German government’s NEUSTART KULTUR programme, the terms of cancellation can now be updated so that exhibitors will bear no financial risk from the impact of the global pandemic.
Renewed funding from the German government’s NEUSTART KULTUR programme
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Interview
"Those who innovate will thrive"
The Corona pandemic has catalysed the digitalisation of music institutions. All those who have been able to adjust to the new situation, will certainly be in a stronger position for the future. In this interview, Matthias Röder, Managing Director of the Karajan Institute, talks about the opportunities and challenges of music in relation to technology and why every cultural institution needs a digital strategy.
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Juergen Boos in conversation with Andreas Rötzer
Publishing is a form of sincerity, says Andreas Rötzer (head of the publisher Matthes & Seitz Berlin since 2004), and an independent publishing house will only succeed if it is able to build trust in the quality of its books. In conversation with Juergen Boos, director of the Frankfurter Buchmesse, Andreas Rötzer tells us how he has managed to do this time and time again.
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"Bookstagrammer play an important role for parents in Turkey"
Digitization, pandemics, refugees - against this backdrop, what is the current state of the Turkish children's book market? Here's an interview with Burcu Ünsal Çeküç, literary agent at the Kalem Agency in Istanbul.
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"Inviting the audience to get active"
The distribution, creation and production of content is more hybrid than ever before. What role will consumers play in the future and how will technologies such as Virtual Reality or Augmented Reality influence experiences and business models? In an interview with Kay Meseberg, Head of Mission Innovation at ARTE, we talked about cross-sector links and the particularities of the cultural audiovisual sector.
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“An unusual approach for the book industry”
From book to film to game … and vice versa! In almost no other segment of the publishing industry are stories and characters being developed and promoted as innovatively as in books for children and young adults. Time for an interview with Thilo Schmid, managing director at Verlagsgruppe Oetinger and award-winning publisher of the group’s migo imprint!
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Interview
"The European cultural and creative industries have the creative and diverse potential for truly new approaches."
The European creative and cultural industries currently face diverse challenges. In our interview with Simone Lippold, Head of Innovation Development at the Börsenverein Group, we discussed current issues, opportunities, new approaches and the potential of cross-sector collaboration.
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Frankfurter Buchmesse opens registration for exhibitors
Publishers can now register for the 73rd Frankfurter Buchmesse (20–24 October 2021). Dedicated to the topic “re:connect”, this year’s book fair is planned as an in-person event with additional digital formats, and can be flexibly adapted to pandemic-related developments. The focus will be on the international rights business and public events. This year’s Guest of Honour is Canada.
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"I believe that a successful film adaptation is one that manages to express in its own way what only the cinematic medium can reveal about the source material."
Two of the ten books that were presented in to an audience of film producers at the first ever digital "Books at Berlinale" this year came from Canada, the Guest of Honour at Frankfurter Buchmesse 2021. In "The Confetti Flight Path" (La trajectoire des confettis) by Marie-Ève Thuot, generations of characters, trapped by social norms, successively test the limits of decency. We talked to her about the prospect of her book being adapted as a movie.
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