Tickets

You qualify as a trade visitor if you are professionally involved in the development, production, sales, or management of printed and electronic media as well as in art or antiques or are active in the area of education.

Authorised trade groups include, for example:

• Employees of publishing houses, literary agencies, bookstores, and libraries
• Authors, illustrators, and translators
• Employees of printing presses, software firms and other service companies for the book and media industry
• Teachers and school directors of all types of schools, educators, or other pedagogical personnel
• Members of the creative industries, creative artists, and agents
• Students of all disciplines and trainees in the book and media industry

*The following groups are entitled to purchase reduced trade visitor tickets - proof required when entering the fairgrounds:

• students, booksellers, librarians, trainees and apprentices in the book and media industry, trade visitors with disabilities (from degree of disability 50%)

*The following groups are entitled to purchase reduced private visitor tickets - proof required when purchasing tickets:

• schoolchildren, students, pensioners, the unemployed, people with disabilities (for those with a disability recognised as level 50 and above), holders of the Frankfurt Pass and Culture Pass, Federal or Social or Ecological Service Volunteers as well as volunteers and trainees in the book and media industry.