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OPENING of Frankfurter Buchmesse 2025

14 October 2025
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Speakers
(as of 19 September 2025)

  • 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
  • Representative of the State of Hessen
  • 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.