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Finally, BOOKFEST is back! Literary enthusiasts and fans of the fine arts from all over the world experienced an exciting programme, guaranteed to deliver plenty of inspiration and unexpected encounters. Bestseller readings, discussion rounds and more: on the exhibition grounds and at more than 20 locations throughout the city.

BOOKFEST at the fair 2022 – All events at a glance

Bookfest extra: Donna Leon

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Speaker: Donna Leon, Author
and 2 more speakers

Congress Center Room Harmonie

German Children's Literatur Award 2022 - Award Presentation Ceremony

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Speaker: Juergen Boos, Director
Frankfurter Buchmesse GmbH
and 3 more speakers

Fantasy Friday Congress Center Room Illusion

The Future is female - women in science-fiction

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Speaker: Theresa Hannig, Author
and 2 more speakers

Successful selfpublishing in fantasy and other genres

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Speaker: Marah Woolf, German writer
and 2 more speakers

Fantasy-Slam: ultra-short fantasy and science-fiction readings

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Speaker: Mario Schenk , Author
and 6 more speakers

The scholarship of the Phantastik-Autoren-Netzwerk (PAN) e.V. in 2022

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Speaker: Matthias Teut, Author
and 2 more speakers

Solomonica de Winter presents her new novel "Das Gesetz der Natur"

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Speaker: Solomonica de Winter, Author
Diogenes Verlag
and 2 more speakers

Climate crisis in literature - past, present and future

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Speaker: Stefan Cernohuby, Editor
and 2 more speakers

Spanish and South-American Fantasy

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Speaker: Jesús Cañadas, Author
and 2 more speakers

Congress Center Room Harmonie

SPIEGEL-Talk Live: War, NS regime, climate change - How younger people deal with the legacy of their grandparents

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Speaker: Luisa Neubauer, Activist
and 3 more speakers

Hollywood-Star Diane Kruger presents her first children's book

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Speaker: Diane Kruger, Actress
and one more speaker

BRIGITTE LIVE with Olena Selenska (First Lady of Ukraine)

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Speaker: Olena Selenska, First Lady of Ukraine
and 2 more speakers

Congress Center Room Spektrum

Live Event with Ute Krause and The Muscleteers

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Speaker: Ute Krause, Writer, illustrator, screenplay writer and director

"My Life as LOTTA" meets "Florentine Blix": Alice Pantermüller and Daniela Kohl read and draw

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Speaker: Alice Pantermüller , Children's author
and one more speaker

Paul Maar reads "Das Sams und die große Weihnachtssuche"

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Speaker: Paul Maar

Strengthening willpower: Children's show on "Wil, der Wolkenstürmer" by Wladimir Klitschko & Tatjana Kiel

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Speaker: Carmen Udina, Publishing Director migo
Verlag Friedrich Oetinger GmbH
and one more speaker

Dr. Florian Huber and his WAS IST WAS volume Lost Treasures

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Speaker: Florian Huber, Underwater archaeologist and research diver

A Children's Book Podcast Live on Stage. Lena Stenz in conversation with Ruth Rahlff and Suza Kolb.

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Speaker: Ruth Rahlff, Editor and freelance writer
Magellan Verlag
and 2 more speakers

"Kick up a Fuss, Nate Knottopus": Reading and Live Illustration with Julia Regett

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Speaker: Julia Regett, Autorin
and one more speaker

Congress Center Room Illusion

KYSS-Book signing with Nikola Hotel, Anya Omah and Kira Mohn

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Speaker: Nikola Hotel, Author
and 2 more speakers

Crimethrill Live - 6 top authors under cross-examination

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Speaker: Arno Strobel, Author
and 6 more speakers

The great signing marathon

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Speaker: Ursula Poznanski, Author
and 6 more speakers

Congress Center Room Conclusio

Book signing with Ute Krause

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Speaker: Ute Krause, Writer, illustrator, screenplay writer and director

Book signing with Daniela Kohl and Alice Pantermüller

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Speaker: Daniela Kohl, Freelance illustrator and graphic designer
and one more speaker

Book signing with Paul Maar

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Speaker: Paul Maar

Book signing withTatjana Kiel

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Speaker: Tatjana Kiel

Book signing with Dr. Florian Huber

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Speaker: Florian Huber, Underwater archaeologist and research diver

Book signing with Ruth Rahlff

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Speaker: Ruth Rahlff, Editor and freelance writer
Magellan Verlag

Book signing with Suza Kolb

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Speaker: Suza Kolb, Author
Magellan

Book signing with Julia Regett

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Speaker: Julia Regett, Autorin

BOOKFEST city 2022 – All events at a glance

Opening: Glimpses beyond natural beauty

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Speaker: Ulrike Crespo , Photographer and psychologist

Literary Conversation: "Life in the Sign of the Precariat - Portrait of the Young Generation in Spain".

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Speaker: Rosa Ribas, Spanish writer
and 2 more speakers

On the Way to New Work - When work becomes something that empowers people

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Speaker: Dr. Michael Trautmann, Entrepreneur

Jürgen Hosemanns »Papierkorb«

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Speaker: Jürgen Hosemann, Publisher
and one more speaker

An evening of Italian crime fiction with Carlo Lucarelli and Davide Longo

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Speaker: Davide Longo, Author
Rowohlt Verlag
and 2 more speakers

Late Night Show with Latvian writers

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Speaker: Jānis Joņevs, Author
and 4 more speakers

FVA-Evening

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Speaker: Britta Boerdner, Author
Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt
and 2 more speakers

Romy Fölck reads from "The Return of the Cranes"

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Speaker: Romy Fölck , Author
Wunderlich Verlag

Books of my life

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Speaker: Volker Weidermann, Literaturkritiker
and 2 more speakers

Chamissimo

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Speaker: Sebastian Guhr, Author

Himmelweg by Juan Mayorga: Staged Reading, Book Presentation, Panel Discussion

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Speaker: Juan Mayorga , Playwright
and 6 more speakers

Najat El Hachmi: »On Monday they will love us«

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Speaker: Najat El Hachmi, Author
Orlanda Verlag
and one more speaker

Jan Böttcher reads from his new novel "Das Rosen-Experiment"

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Speaker: Jan Böttcher, Author
Aufbau Verlag

Moritz Hürtgen reads from his debut novel "Der Boulevard des Schreckens"

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Speaker: Moritz Hürtgen

Amelie Benn reads "Zwei wie Glitzer und Einhornstaub"

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Speaker: Amelie Benn

“Die vierte Gewalt - wie Mehrheitsmeinung gemacht wird, auch wenn sie keine ist”

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Speaker: Richard David Precht, Philosopher und Autor
and 2 more speakers

Giulia Caminito - "Das Wasser des Sees ist niemals süß"

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Speaker: Giulia Caminito, Writer and editor
Wagenbach Verlag
and one more speaker

Things. A history of women in 100 objects

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Speaker: Annabelle Hirsch, Author

An Evening with the authors of Edition W

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Speaker: Lena Elfrath, Copywriter and journalist
and 2 more speakers

Glisten. How LSD cured me for life

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Speaker: Anuschka Roshani, Author
Kein & Aber

The Young Woman and the Sea

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Speaker: Sylvie Gühmann, Author
CONBOOK Verlag

Ladies Crime Night - A somewhat different crime reading

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Speaker: Elisabetta Fortunato, Presenter and author
and 6 more speakers

Najat El Hachmi: »On Monday they will love us«

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Speaker: Najat El Hachmi, Author
Orlanda Verlag
and one more speaker

Translating Political Theatre: Using the Example of Dramatists Roman Sikora and Hanoch Levin

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Speaker: Roman Sikora, Playwright and theatre critic
and 3 more speakers

Reading in the Dark® Marie Gamillscheg: Riot of the Sea Creatures

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Speaker: Marie Gamillscheg, Author
and 2 more speakers

Lasagna, Memories and the path between Italy and Switzerland

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Speaker: Francesca Petrarca, Book designer
and one more speaker

Italy in the 14th century. A small village. An epochal discovery. A great love.

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Speaker: Luca Di Fulvio, Author

Piero Martin - "Maß für Maß: Die sieben Einheiten, die unsere Welt erklären"

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Speaker: Piero Martin, Professor
Aufbau Verlag
and one more speaker

Niño de Elche

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Speaker: Niño de Elche, Artist

Fraskito: Tierra y Sangre

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Speaker: Fraskito, Musician

Ex. 20 years, 10 men and everything that can go wrong

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Speaker: Katja Lewina, Author
DuMont

Reading with Lotte Schweizer from " The Magical Creatures Detective Agency "

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Speaker: Lotte Schweizer, Author
dtv

Reading and Book Signing with Dagmar Bach

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Speaker: Dagmar Bach

Book signing with Klaus-Peter Wolf

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Speaker: Klaus-Peter Wolf, Author

Climate Change, People and Health - Reading and Panel Discussion

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Speaker: Gerda Kneifel , Science journalist
and 4 more speakers

Helena Janezcek - "Die Schwalben von Montecassino"

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Speaker: Helena Janeczek, Author
Berlin Verlag
and one more speaker

The Art of Dissapearing: Talk with Melanie Raabe about her new book.

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Speaker: Melanie Raabe , Author
and one more speaker

The successful authors from Finland visit the Frankfurt Book Fair and present their latest crime novels

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Speaker: Max Seeck, Author
and one more speaker

Audiobook Worlds – from niche to saviour

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Speaker: Felicitas Boos, Marketing Manager Audio
Hörbuchwelten
and 3 more speakers

Travel talk with kayak professional Olaf Obsommer

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Speaker: Olaf Obsommer, Expedition leader and Author
CONBOOK Verlag

ECHO TSCHECHIEN with RADKA DENEMARKOVÁ

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Speaker: Radka Denemarková, Author, playwright, screenwriter, essayist and translator
and one more speaker

Ian Kershaw in conversation with Wolfgang Niess

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Speaker: Ian Kershaw, Historian
and one more speaker

Germany under the sign of the swastika

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Speaker: Martin Valdés-Stauber, Sociologist and dramaturge
and 3 more speakers

ECHO TSCHECHIEN mit ALENA MORNŠTAJNOVÁ

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Speaker: Alena Mornštajnová, Writer
Wieser Verlag
and 2 more speakers

Nicoletta Verna – "Der Wert der Gefühle"

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Speaker: Nicoletta Verna, Editor and author
Giunti Verlag
and one more speaker

Elvira Sastre: The Days Without You (Guest country Spain IV)

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Speaker: Elvira Sastre, Author and translator

With her Novel "Die Gedanken sind frei" Julia Kroehn presents an homage to Frankfurt as city of Books

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Speaker: Julia Kröhn, Historian and author
Hessischer Rundfunk

FemFacts & Give a Fck - Two books about sexism, sex work and our social responsibility

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Speaker: Catrin Altzschner
and one more speaker

Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis - German Children's Literature Award - The winners 2022

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Speaker: Prof. Dr. Karin Vach, Chairwoman of the Critics' Jury for the German Youth Literature Prize

Stefanie Taschinski reads from "The Brilliant Mr Chalkwhite"

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Speaker: Stefanie Taschinski, Author
Arena Verlag
and one more speaker

The School of Day and Night Magic by bestselling author Gina Mayer

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Speaker: Gina Mayer, Author
Ravensburger Verlag GmbH

Barbaros Altuğ: »Foreigners«. The new novel of his exile trilogy.

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Speaker: Barbaros Altuğ , Writer and LGBTQIA+ activist

"Escape Room - The Hotel of a Thousand Eyes" - bestselling author Eva Eich invites you to an interactive Escape Room adventure

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Speaker: Eva Eich, Author and journalist
arsEdition GmbH

Jay Kristoff - A tale of blood and darkness

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Speaker: Jay Kristoff, Author
Fischer Verlage

Anna Freixas: »Me the old woman! Activist advice for free people«

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Speaker: Anna Freixas, Psychologist, writer and feminist
and one more speaker

Christian Duda: "Tree Sleeper". Reading and Talk with Stephanie von Selchow.

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Speaker: Christian Duda, Author and director
Beltz& Gelberg/Publishing House

Florence Brokowski-Shekete: »Out of the box! My conversations with Black Germans«

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Speaker: Florence Brokowski-Shekete, Author and school district director

Nostalgia in the novel

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Speaker: Ana Schnabl, Author
and 3 more speakers

Once More Unto Death. The new novel Oliver Bottini.

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Speaker: Oliver Bottini, Author
DuMont Buchverlag

Ágnes Nemes Nagy: My brain: A lake

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Speaker: Christian Filips, Author, theatre director and dramaturg
and one more speaker

Love is what holds all this shit together: Kai Wiesinger in conversation with Cécile Schortmann

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Speaker: Kai Wiesinger
and one more speaker

DRACHENBANNER - The long-awaited new historical novel by Rebecca Gablé

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Speaker: Rebecca Gablé, Author

Pasolini 100. These damned metaphors - An evening with Theresia Prammer and Marco Belpoliti. In conversation with Fabien Vitali

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Speaker: Theresia Prammer, Author
Surhkamp
and 2 more speakers

Der Pass mein Zuhause by Andrei S. Markovits: Book Presentation.

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Speaker: Andrei S. Markovits, Professor
and one more speaker

Tatjana Kruse presents "Es gibt ein Leben nach dem Tod"

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Speaker: Tatjana Kruse, Crime writer

Why Do Zebras Have Stripes?

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Speaker: Lila Prap, Author
and one more speaker

The fantastic flying lost and found - live show with pictures and music for children from 6 years old.

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Speaker: Andreas Hüging and Angelika Niestrath

Sonja Kaiblinger reads from " Die Geisterkicker"

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Speaker: Sonja Kaiblinger