Frankfurter Buchmesse 18 - 22 October 2023

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Culture and literature live

Our colourful programme for literary enthusiasts

In 2022, Frankfurt Studio once again featured an exciting schedule of readings, talks and interviews. Culture fans from all over the world experienced international stars live on site. Frankfurt Studio’s inspiring programme is now available digitally in our Media Library.

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Frankfurter Buchmesse's media library

Our media library offers a collection of all the highlights from our events for professional and private audiences. Browse through a wide range of events and discover conferences, readings, talks, podcasts and performances from past fairs.

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Frankfurt Kids Festival

The world of children's and youth media is at the heart of Frankfurter Buchmesse 2022. Among the numerous events for tomorrow’s readers, you’ll find the BOOKFEST or the German Cosplay Championship, for example.

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Frankfurt Studio

From 21 to 23 October, Frankfurt Studio offered a great programme for the general public: experience renowned authors, this year’s new releases, exciting talks and more now in our media library.

Frankfurt Pavilion

Watch exciting talks on current cultural-political topics, including the defence of democracy, diversity in the media and cultural industries, the Ukraine war, as well as trends in children's and young adult media. Speakers include Abdulrazak Gurnah, Michail Schischkin and many more.

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TikTok Stage

For the first time ever on the Sunday of the fair, the Agora stage became our official TikTok stage – bringing together the international #BookTok community. Popular creators on the social media platform TikTok gave workshops and talked to authors and publishers. In the #BookTok Creation Corner, #BookTok creators recorded their own videos and streamed them live from the fair, sharing their impressions with their community and book fans all over the world.

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ARD Stage in the Forum

Experience the highlights of the ARD stage: Denis Scheck commented on the latest comics, family and travel novels, as well as Nobel Prize-winning literature. "SHEROES/fighters for the future" hosted by Jagoda Marinić was also on site this year – with Jasmin Schreiber, Luisa Neubauer and Shikiba Babori, among others.
And presenter Bärbel Schäfer talked to Jakob Thomä, Amelie Fried, Luzia Braun and more at "Bärbel Schäfer's Book Talk".

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Das blaue Sofa (the Blue Sofa)

A real classic and once again an absolute audience highlight in 2022. Bestselling authors were present with their new releases along with exciting book talks – all on the Blue Sofa, the shared authors' forum by Bertelsmann, ZDF, Deutschlandfunk Kultur and 3sat.

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