Frankfurter Buchmesse 15 - 19 October 2025

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There is always something new to discover about the world’s largest content fair. Here is where you can find out more about current fair events and contests, as well as read relevant interviews with interesting people.

2020

  • Simone Lippold

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    creativeSHIFT: Shaping the future of the content industries together

    How will content industries develop in the future? An interview with Simone Lippold, Head of Innovation Development, Börsenverein Group, and strategic lead of creativeSHIFT.

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  • Veronika Liebl at AIxMusic Cultural Organizations, POSTCITY

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    "The global pandemic has further accelerated the most pressing societal challenges."

    Veronika Liebl, Director of European Cooperation, Ars Electronica, about the challenges and opportunities of hybrid festivals and the influence of new technologies on cultural and societal change.

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  • Luc Bourcier

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    "We have to learn from other countries, from other sectors."

    Luc Bourcier, CEO, izneo, is partnering with us in the EU project Digital Cross Over. He speaks about current challenges and trends of digital comic book publishing in Europe.

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  • IMZ

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    "New technologies have not only changed the audiences, but have also offered new channels for our artists."

    When concert halls and opera houses remain closed in times of Covid-19, how can the performing arts reach their audience? We talked to our Digital Cross Over partner IMZ about the challenges and opportunities for Europe's creative and cultural industries.

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  • Digital Cross Over Team

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    Digital Cross Over: Meet the project team

    Learn more about the partners of the cross-sector EU project Digital Cross Over and current challenges of Europe's cultural and creative industries.

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  • Jennifer Goodrich

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    Peer-Review in a COVID-19 World- By Jennifer Goodrich

    CCC’s Jennifer Goodrich recently took an in-depth look, in a series of articles, at ways that the pandemic has impacted peer review processes and scholarly publishing.

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  • WIPO

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    Frankfurter Buchmesse announces partnership with the World Intellectual Property Organization

    Frankfurter Buchmesse and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the UN agency specializing in promoting innovation and creativity, are partnering to ensure that intellectual property issues are respected and promoted in the creative sector and in the international media and entertainment industries.

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  • &Töchter Team

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    Making literature an experience and something to talk about!

    About sustainable book production, collaboration via messenger and cross-media marketing: an interview with the founders of the Munich publishing house &Töchter, who have won the Wildcard of the Frankfurter Buchmesse (14 - 18 October 2020) as innovative newcomer.

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  • Neustart Kultur

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    German government provides Frankfurter Buchmesse with 4 million euros

    German Minister of State and Culture Commissioner Monika Grütters is supporting the Frankfurter Buchmesse with 4 million euros from the country’s NEUSTART KULTUR stimulus package.

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  • BOOKFEST digital

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    Shining at the heart of Frankfurter Buchmesse: BOOKFEST digital celebrates the “Literaturherbst” 2020 autumn literature festival

    Call for Ideas – Publishers and partners are invited to help shape the Frankfurter Buchmesse virtual programme | Ideas can be submitted via www.bookfest.de/en/digital until 15 July 2020 | Participation is free

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