All important dates of Frankfurter Buchmesse

• Juergen Boos, Director of Frankfurter Buchmesse
• Karin Schmidt-Friderichs, Chairwoman of the German Publishers & Booksellers Association
• Vanina Colagiovanni, Publishing Director Gog & Magog (Argentina), participant of “Frankfurt Global Network”
• Mehar Anaokar, Editor Serpent’s Tail Classics/Profile Books (Uk), participant of ”Frankfurt Global Network”

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meeting spot

• Karina Bolasco, Curator Literary Program
• Patrick Flores, Curator Guest of Honour Pavilion
• Stanley Ruiz, Designer Guest of Honour Pavilion 

• Kristian Cordero, Author and Translator
• Ani Almario, Author, Publisher and Educator 

• Karin Schmidt-Friderichs, President of Börsenverein (the German Publishers and Booksellers Association)
• Juergen Boos, Director Frankfurter Buchmesse
• Mike Josef, Mayor of the City of Frankfurt am Main
• Armin Schwarz, Minister of Education of te State of Hesse
• Dr. Wolfram Weimer, Minister of State for Culture and the Media
• Loren Legarda, Honourable Senator of the Republic of the Philippines

Poets Marjorie Evasco, Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta and Merlie M. Alunan will appear as literary speakers for the Guest of Honour. 

Location/

meeting spot

until 10 October 2025: press@buchmesse.de.(opens in a new window)

Limited space 

• Tomáš Kubíček, Director of the Moravian Library, Project Manager for the Czech Guest of Honour
• Martin Krafl, Programme Manager for the Czech Guest of Honour
• Martin Vopěnka, Author and Chairman of the Association of Czech Booksellers and Publishers
• Bianca Bellová, writer, translator
• Petr Hruška, poet and literary scholar
• Video message from Martin Baxa (Minister of Culture of the Czech Republic).  

The participants will be available for interviews afterwards.