General information on the Frankfurt Book Fair
You are what you read. You read, therefore you are.
The Frankfurt Book Fair is a meeting place for the industry’s experts. Be they publishers, booksellers, agents, film producers or authors - each year in October, they all come together and create something new.
The Frankfurt Book Fair is the most important marketplace for books, media, rights and licences worldwide. About 7,400 exhibitors from 106 countries, 280,194 visitors and over 10,000 journalists.
Grow your business, expand your network, build bridges into the future and make new discoveries: digital content, the vibrant publishing landscape of the Guest of Honour and interesting information about the most important markets worldwide. One thing is certain: at the Frankfurt Book Fair you will have more access to current trends than anywhere else.
How to get to the Frankfurt Book Fair
To make sure you have a good and speedy journey, we provide you with tips and important information on connections, travel routes, and travel options.
No matter which means of transport you wish to use, we assist you in getting there safely and conveniently.
Address of the exhibition site:
Messegelände
Ludwig-Erhard-Anlage 1
60327 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
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Visa requirement for many countries' nationals
A visa requirement applies for many countries’ nationals who wish to enter Germany.
An up-to-date list of all countries subject to visa regulations, as well as those which are not, can be obtained from the German Federal Foreign Office.
Exhibitors and trade visitors from countries subject to a visa requirement must contact the relevant German mission abroad (embassy or consulate-general) in good time to make an appointment and inform themselves about specific local conditions that may apply.
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Your accomodation during the fair
The nearer it gets to the Frankfurt Book Fair, the more difficult it can be to find suitable accommodation. We help you find one.
There are more and more hotels going up in the Main city all the time, however. An affordable alternative to the hotel market is provided by rooms and apartments rented out by private landlords. The Frankfurt Book Fair offers you here a selection of the options for you to choose and book hotels and private rooms in the category you require.
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Information for disabled people
Free entry for you and an accompanying person.
Wheelchair users and disabled persons who need an accompanying person have access to the fair grounds during the entire period of the Frankfurt Book Fair for free from 9.00 am.
On trade visitors’ days disabled persons without accompanying person with a degree of disability of at least DoD 80 will obtain a reduced day ticket for 22 euros or a five-day -ticket for 60 euros. On the private visitors days they will obtain a visitor's ticket for the reduced fare of 10 euros.
Disabled persons without accompanying person and with a degree of disability below DoD 80 have to pay regular fees.
(as of April 2011)
Tradition and future: the history of the Frankfurt Book Fair
The history of the Frankfurt Book Fair dates back to the 15th century, when Johannes Gutenberg first invented movable type - only a few kilometres down the road from Frankfurt.
Frankfurt remained the central and undisputed European book fair city through to the 17th century. In the course of political and cultural upheaval, in the 18th century Leipzig then came to play the part.
In 1949, that early Frankfurt book fair tradition was given a new lease of life: 205 German exhibitors assembled on Sept. 18-23 in Frankfurt's Paulskirche for the first post-War book fair.
More than 60 trade-fair years later, the Frankfurt Book Fair is the largest of its kind in the world - and the hallmark for global activities in the field of culture.
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