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We want to plan and organise sustainable, environmentally friendly, climate-neutral events. To achieve this, we support our employees, service providers, exhibitors and visitors in making their work and their stay at the trade fair more sustainable step by step.

PR Manager Katrin Hage talks to Frankfurter Buchmesse stand builder Orsi Fescke and asks her about her job, her views on the topic of sustainability and the change in stand construction.

What’s new at Frankfurter Buchmesse 2022?

Welcome to Frankfurter Buchmesse, the world’s leading venue for printed and digital content. Here is where publishing experts meet up with partners from the technology and creative industries such as film and games – to exchange ideas, be inspired, try out new technologies and cultivate contacts.
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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

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

The new Frankfurt Connect app is now available free of charge in the app stores. It contains all the events, exhibitors and speakers. This and other important information for visitors to Frankfurter Buchmesse in our press release.

The 71st Frankfurter Buchmesse ended today, with a significant increase in the number of visitors of 8.3 percent at the weekend and a rise of 3.7 percent on the trade visitor days. In 2019, the fair welcomed a total of 302,267 visitors, an increase of 6.0 percent compared to last year.

Cornelia Funke is keynote speaker at our Frankfurt Kids Conference "Paving the Way for the Future: Responsibility in Children’s Book Publishing".

Digital: Frankfurt Conference, Master Classes and The Hof to precede Frankfurter Buchmesse / Hybrid: WIPO Publishing Industry Report, International Excellence Award for Accessible Publishing, and Global CEO Talk in the Frankfurt Studio Inside Publishing programme / Premiere for STARTS Day / On site: new Education Forum in Hall 3.1

Karine Pansa, President of International Publishers Association (IPA), Editorial Director of Girassol Edições

Sustainability, translation and audiobooks on the Spanish-language market: the CONTEC meeting was held in Mexico City at the beginning of the July to share experiences and reflections from the context of Frankfurter Buchmesse with the Latin American region. At the lectures, discussion panels and workshops, 33 experts from different countries discussed. Journalist América Gutiérrez Espinosa summarised her findings for us.

This year’s Frankfurter Buchmesse (16-20 October 2019) is putting culture back at the center of global discussion. Together with the United Nations and Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels (German Publishers & Booksellers Association), Frankfurter Buchmesse is launching the global campaign “Create Your Revolution – Initiative For The Future Of Culture”.

German will be the Guest of Honour Language at this year’s international book fair in Turin (Salone Internazionale del Libro di Torino, 9-13 May 2024 (#SalTo24)). Twenty-five German-language authors will be featured as part of “Literature Parade. Guest Language German at #SalTo24”, the theme of the exhibition stand and programme on the fairgrounds and in the city, which is being jointly organised by Austria, Germany and Switzerland. 

Every book fair is different. To ensure you can keep track of it all, we’ve assembled the most important information here. 

With CREATE YOUR REVOLUTION-Talks (Wednesday, 16 October 2019) Frankfurter Buchmesse is giving the stage to a kaleidoscope of global change makers whose powerful ideas are shaping a bright and hopeful future. Tickets are available now.

On 3 May 2024, representatives of Frankfurter Buchmesse and Messe Frankfurt signed the extension of the contract until the end of 2028. This continues a good tradition: the largest international book fair has been held in the halls of Messe Frankfurt since 1951 – even during the pandemic years and under challenging conditions.

With THE ARTS+, Frankfurter Buchmesse is once again making space for media art and moving images, for innovative media developments on the future of the creative industries worldwide. THE ARTS+ area can be found in the Forum, Level 0 from 20 to 24 October 2021.

THE ARTS+ is the gateway between the publishing companies and the creative industry. It focuses on Creative Intellectual Property.

Here you will find all the important information you need to prepare your visit to Frankfurter Buchmesse in the best possible way.