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One event to note is an opening-day panel in the 1 p.m. hour on the stand’s center stage, “The Invisible Women of Publishing.” Moderated by Emma House, the discussion is to include Bologna Children’s Book Fair (April 13 to 16) director Elena Pasoli; Copyright Clearance Center president and CEO Tracey Armstrong; Agamee Parkashani’s executive director Mitia Osman; and BookCareers’ Suzanne Collier.
A Podcast Studio for Recording and Listening
The audio agency WatchYourHead is bringing a see-through podcast studio to Frankfurt, allowing exhibitors and content creators to produce their own high-quality audio or video podcasts, live at the trade show. Acoustic glazing preserves the sound quality in the studio, while also allowing visitors to look inside and use headphones to listen along as podcast episodes are recorded.
Festhalle Becomes a New Venue
The capacious Festhalle is to hold a “meet the author” area for consumer-facing book signings by writers including Bianca Iosivoni, Stella Tack, Nena Tramountani, Maren Vivien Haase, Ayla Dade, Julia Dippel, Ava Reed, and Kyra Groh. The venue’s international authors are to include international personalities V. E. Schwab, Cassandra Clare, Mercedes Ron, and Abby Jimenez. A Festhalle pop-up stage will offer talks and readings on romantasy, new-adult fiction, and BookTok trends.
IKEA is partnering in the Festhalle with what we’re told will be comfortable seating intended to persuade visitors to linger. There are also to be IKEA bookshelves featured in the program
A Frankfurter Buchmesse 2026 Showroom
In the foyer of Hall 4.1, Frankfurter Buchmesse is opening a display highlighting a new hall layout, which is to be implemented at the Messe in 2026.
The “showroom” is to explicate the planned reorganization using large-format visuals and videos, of course. It will also offer exhibitors an opportunity to provide feedback. The showroom is primarily aimed at exhibitors and industry professionals.
Frankfurt Kids at the Congress Center
This year, most of the Frankfurt Kids Festival events (some featuring the illustrator Axel Scheffler) are to will take place during the weekend in the Congress Center at Messe Frankfurt. Participants will include TV broadcaster ARD and KIKA, its program for children, along with their popular mouse figure and Bernd das Brot (Bernd the Bread), who is to stroll through the crowd. Bernd das Brot is a puppet, a mascot of German television’s KiKA, a Pullman loaf said to be “chronically depressed.” The Frankfurt Kids Festival starts on Friday with the German Aerospace Center making it possible for young visitors to climb into SpaceBuzz One on the Agora. On Sunday, astronaut Matthias Maurer will be on-hand to talk about training to go to the moon.
The Innovation Stage in Hall 4.0
“Friday Innovation Talks” are to be set on the Innovation Stage in Hall 4.0 (Stand H106) to pool its events on up-and-coming international topics, in cooperation with exhibitors and partners including the Society for Scholarly Publishing and the Charleston Conference. Artificial intelligence, open access, and freedom of research and publication are to be the top issues explored during presentations, micro-conferences and networking events. One new feature: the “Friday Innovation Talks” sponsored by Frankfurter Buchmesse, Bookwire, and Pondus will run from 2:30 to 5 p.m. on Friday.
Frankfurter Buchmesse Kickoff Run
The “Kickoff Run” is back, organized by Publishers Without Borders in cooperation with Frankfurter Buchmesse. On the Sunday before the fair, exhibitors and trade visitors will meet up for a five-kilometer run along the Main river. If you’d like to jog along, help out, or cheer the participants on, please register in advance by email as places are limited: [email protected]. At 5 p.m. on October 12, the meeting point is at DFF , Deutsches Film Museum.
The international tactile writing system Braille is celebrating its anniversary at the trade show in Frankfurt, with an exhibition in the foyer of Hall 4.1.
DialogMuseum and Frankfurter Buchmesse will be co-hosting this chance for attendees to come by and learn about the beginnings of Braille and the system behind it.
In addition—and with the European Accessibility Act having just been implemented in June—Buchmesse will again offer a special guided tour of the guest of honor pavilion. Learn more and/or register tat [email protected] or by phone at +49 69 2102-0.
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