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Make valuable contacts, extend your market knowledge and get inspired with the Paris-Frankfurt Fellowship for young and rising publishing professionals.

The first trade fair for digital cultural content, THE ARTS+, took place for the first time at the Frankfurter Buchmesse, closing today after having achieved great success. The premiere comprised five days of a “fair within a fair” as well as an international conference featuring many prominent personalities.

Diverse programme/Regional focus on Lazio and Piedmont

Frankfurt Book Fair 2016 - a truly European Fair

Are you feeling creative? For the fifth year in a row, Frankfurter Buchmesse (16-20 October 2019) is awarding its Wild Card. Whoever can provide the best, most imaginitive answers to three questions about their exhibition concept will win a grand prize: an 8-sqm stand at the world’s biggest fair for content.

Whether performance art or the sound of flamenco, whether high culture from the Prado or fun culture in the form of tapas – Spain’s “spilling creativity” can be experienced not only at Frankfurter Buchmesse from 19 to 23 October 2022, but this summer as well in the city of Frankfurt and many other places in Germany.

There will be 80 events from 9 to 14 October as part of Bookfest, the festival of the Frankfurter Buchmesse

Focus on audio publishing, media for children and young adults and literary translations / Expert talks with Charlie Redmayne, Núria Cabutí, Jonny Geller, Ashleigh Gardner, Peter Warwick, Michael Tamblyn and many others

Culinary nation branding in the Gourmet Gallery of the Frankfurter Buchmesse (10-14 October 2018)

"German Stories" took centre stage at the 2019 Taipei International Book Exhibition (12-17 February). As part of Germany's Guest of Honour presentation 13 German authors travelled to Taiwan to exchange ideas with Taiwanese journalists, academics and authors. They captivated the audience and received an incredible response: All of the events at the German stand were filled to capacity and followed by lively discussions.

The summarised offers from education, science and specialist information at the 75th Frankfurter Buchmesse.

Five successful female leaders discuss the role of women in the publishing industry today

We present the books and read from them - in Ukrainian and German!

A discussion about the opportunities and challenges of cross-sectoriality in the publishing sector.

Political panels with UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk, climate activist Lea Bonasera, Irina Scherbakova (Memorial) and many more

How orientalistic and how topical is the anti-fascist novel by Vladimir Bartol (1903–1967) issued in 1938 disguised as a Persian fable, which was set to music in 2022 by the group Laibach in collaboration with Iranian musicians?

Between Iran and Israel

This year, Frankfurter Buchmesse (14-18 October 2020) will once again be putting audio content, services and products into the spotlight with Frankfurt Audio and is giving away three free 30-minute stage slots on the Frankfurt Audio Stage on the trade visitor days of the fair.

Producers of creative content can apply for a German or international Wild Card by submitting clever stand concepts.

“German Stories” will be the theme of Germany’s presentation at the Taipei International Book Exhibition from 12 to 17 February 2019.