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From summer 2024 onwards, here you will find all the information on trade visitor and general public tickets as well as access to the ticket shops.

Your ticket options at a glance

  • Trade visitor tickets
  • General public tickets
  • Tickets for exhibitors and for LitAg participants
  • Tickets for journalists and bloggers

Trade visitor 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%)

General public tickets - Friday, 18 October (from 2pm) till Sunday

Persons in wheelchairs or disabled persons with a "B" on their disabled person's pass will be admitted free of charge for themselves and their companion on presentation of their disabled person's pass.

Children up to and including 6 years of age accompanying a trade visitor or visitor will be admitted free of charge.

Press tickets

Accredited journalists and bloggers receive free entrance. Accreditation will be possible from 15 August on.

Code of Conduct

Our Code of Conduct

Frankfurter Buchmesse stands for respect, diversity and tolerance. We celebrate our wide range of different participants whom we engage at eye level in open dialogue. Learn about our rules for an appreciative atmosphere of collaboration at the fair.

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