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Frankfurt Book Fair 2022

Together with its partners, the Goethe-Institut is once again represented at the Frankfurt Book Fair, this year with a reduced program due to the budget situation. On this page you will find relevant topics around this year's fair.

In addition, the Goethe-Institut Ukraine is participating in the program of events at the country stand together with the Ukrainian Book Institute. Further information can be found here: "Persistence of being"

Skyline Frankfurt am Main at sunrise Photo (detail): © picture alliance / dpa | Roland Holschneider

Frankfurt Book Fair 2022
 Back to the Old Routine?

After two pared-down years, the Frankfurter Buchmesse is back in full force, with Spain as the guest of honour in 2022. Isabella Caldart offers her thoughts on the relevance of physical fairs, BookTok as the way of the future and what we can expect this year.

Kim de l'Horizon is delighted to receive the German Book Prize 2022 Photo (detail): © picture alliance/dpa | Arne Dedert

Frankfurt Book Fair 2022
 German Book Prize 2022 goes to Kim de l'Horizon

How do you write about people who are neither male nor female? Kim de l’Horizon showed how in “Blutbuch” (Blood Book). At the award ceremony in Frankfurt, Kim shaved their head bald – and thanked their mother.

Our events in Frankfurt

Frankfurter Buchmesse Pavillon © Frankfurter Buchmesse

Discussion "Artistic freedom: a basic right"

Thursday, 20.10.2022, 18:00
Frankfurt Pavilion (Agora)
Moderation: Vladimir Balzer (Deutschlandfunk Kultur)

A comparison of the patterns in three different countries will demonstrate the ways in which national sensitivities within Europe shape discourse within politics and the media.

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Frankfurter Buchmesse Pavilion Agora © Frankfurter Buchmesse

Discussion "Culture in war time"

Friday, 21.10.2022, 12:00 Uhr
Frankfurt Pavilion (Agora)
Moderation: Alona Karavai (Ukrainian cultural manager)

We talk to representatives from the Mystetsky Arsenal, the Goethe-Institut, the Ukrainian Institute and the Ukrainian author Serhij Zhadan about how the war has changed the entire agenda of many cultural institutions in Ukraine.

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Litrix.de Frankfurter Buchmesse © Goethe-Institut

New scope for mutual influences: literary exchange between Germany and Italy

Friday, 21.10.2022, 16:00
Internationales Zentrum für Übersetzung, Hall 4.0, G114
Moderation: Stefano Zangrando (author and translator)

Annette Kopetzki (translator) and Piero Salabè (Carl Hanser Verlag) will talk about conveying Italian literature to a German-speaking readership. Margherita Carbonaro (translator) and Marco Federici Solari (L’orma editore) will speak about communicating German-language literature to an Italian readership.

Presented by Litrix.de in collaboration with the International Centre for Translation, the Italian Cultural Institutes in Berlin and Cologne, and the publishers Carl Hanser Verlag and L’orma editore.

Introduction: Maria Carolina Foi (Director of the Italian Cultural Institute Berlin) and Anne-Bitt Gerecke (Director of the Litrix-Programme of the Goethe-Institut)

Includes simultaneous translation (Italian / German)
 

Offers of the Guest of Honour, Spain

Auf dem Weg nach Frankfurt - Key Visual © Goethe-Institut Madrid

Frankfurt Book Fair 2022
 On the way to Frankfurt

Book launches, an urban cultures lab, translator residencies, a film series, theater co-productions, and even a literature podcast. This is how we celebrate Spain's invitation to be Guest of Honor at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2022. There is something for everyone. Celebrate with us!

Podcast: Messepiratinnen – Episode #10 – Wir kapern Frankfurt Bild: Robert Esteban © Goethe-Institut Barcelona

Podcast live
 Messepiratinnen – Live from Frankfurt

One last time we accompany Sturm und Drang on their journey through contemporary Spanish and German literature, this time live! Our guests are Miqui Otero, Isabel García Adánez, Carles Masdeu, Bibiana Candia and Nando López.

Ich will die Menschen ausroden von der Erde, von María Velasco © Maria Velasco

Scenic reading and book presentation
 „I want to eradicate man from the earth“, from María Velasco

Wednesday, 19. October 2022, 16:00 hours
Cereza Stage, Spanish Pavilion

Franziska Muche and Carola Heinrich (publishers and translators) and Matthias Naumann (Verlag Neofelis) present the anthology Schattenschwimmer. New Theater Texts from Spain. The team from Theater Heidelberg reads the winning play of the International Author Award 2022 at the Heidelberg Stückemarkt – first milestone of the Goethe-Institut Madrid with Acción Cultural Española, Martin Valdés Stauber, José Manuel Mora and Carlota Ferrer in the scenic arts On the way to Frankfurt.

Book presentation and reading
 Reading “Himmelweg” from Juan Mayorga

Wednesday, 19. October 2022, 20:00
Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt

At the center of the book presentation of Schattenschwimmer. Neue Theatertexte aus Spanien (Neofelis Verlag) is a staged reading of the play Himmelweg by Juan Mayorga. The translation was worked on, among others, in the translators' residency at the Goethe-Institut Madrid. The residency program is part of the multidisciplinary program On the Way to Frankfurt, launched to celebrate Spain as Guest of Honor at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2022.

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