Stages & Events
Present your business, products or authors on our attention-grabbing stages – live or digitally.
Our Meet the Author area enables authors and visitors to meet in an indoor area of over 5,500 square metres. The historic Festhalle offers a unique ambience under its 29-metre-high glass dome.
This is the ideal format for you if you want to share your expertise and enter into conversation with other publishing professionals. Whether you are an author, publisher, designer or blogger, present your product in a small group of no more than 10 people.
On Friday (17 October), Frankfurter Buchmesse is cooperating with the Frankfurt City Library on a reading and participation day. Readings and workshops can be held in 16 district libraries. They are spread across the entire city (Bergen-Enkheim, Bornheim, Bockenheim, Dornbusch, Gallus, Griesheim, Höchst, Nieder-Eschbach, Niederrad, Nordweststadt, Rödelheim, Sachsenhausen, Schwanheim, Seckbach, Sindlingen and Sossenheim).
Share your knowhow and your best practices with the international publishing community. This format is the ideal way to prepare your trade fair presence: You generate valuable leads for your marketing and sales team and benefit from increased visibility even before Frankfurter Buchmesse begins.
Become a host of The Hof! Become part of this popular networking format where the global publishing community meets at a virtual bar with live music, listens to exciting interviews and finds new business partners in breakouts.
The big stage at Frankfurter Buchmesse, with up to 1,800 spectators.
From bestseller readings to major performances, the Harmonie Hall and surrounding rooms offer state-of-the-art technology for events with an audience of 150 or more.
Topics that move you: the new Centre Stage is for exciting talks and discussions on current debates – with renowned speakers from literature, politics and society.
On the stage in Hall 4.0, everything revolves around trends and market developments in the fields of science, education and publishing services. The Campus Weekend focuses on information about career opportunities in your organisation and making contacts with students and young professionals. Authors and experts on (popular) science topics also meet an audience of people enthusiastic about knowledge.
Whether it’s for star authors or industry decision makers, Frankfurt Studio is your platform for inspiring talks on the latest topics and trends – with up to 150 audience members on site. On trade visitor days, each event will be recorded and made available in the Frankfurter Buchmesse media library for one year after the event. On weekends, the recording can be booked in addition to the event.
The Frankfurt Studio Pop-up is a flexibly bookable area that becomes a stage for non-fiction and literature books at the weekend. From Wednesday to Friday lunchtime, the space can be booked for networking, matchmaking and receptions. With various groups of tables, it offers a relaxed but professional atmosphere for professional exchanges and new contacts.
The International Stage in the Foyer between the international Halls 5 and 6 offers you the ideal setting for exchanging ideas with the international publishing community. At the weekend, the stage is particularly suitable for readings by authors from all regions of the world.
The pop-up stage in the Festhalle is a small, intimate platform for inspiring talks and readings on the topics of romantasy, fantasy, new adult and more. This is where the community gathers to experience their BookTok authors in an accessible setting.
