Frankfurt Book Fair 2020

How can cultural networks contribute to a new dialogue in this global crisis? Has the idea of a globalised world become obsolete? These and other questions will be discussed by Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, president of the Goethe-Institut, Dr. Stephanie Rosenthal, director at the Martin-Gropius-Bau and Matthias Lilienthal, international theatre maker on the Weltempfang at Frankfurt Book Fair.

What does “being a woman” mean, how can we live sustainably and what's new in literature? This year, the Frankfurt Book Fair is presenting an array of topics in digital form. Here you can find a list of lectures and discussions, that we have put together: Ranging from topics of “cultures of equality”, “prize-winning literature”, “Europe” and “sustainability”.  

The project “Time to listen” presents a collection of stories - told by storytellers from all areas of art, from all over the world. To kick-off of the second phase of our digital project curator Thomas Böhm and Wiebke Porombka look back at what happened so far and give a first glimpse at the upcoming themes.

The Festival international de la littérature has invited authors from Europe and Canada to write letters to each other. This correspondence was followed by various virtual encounters. The testimonies of these literary exchanges can be read and listened to.
 

20 authors present new comics and picture stories in German, English, French and indigenous languages on a term that evokes very different associations and emotions in both countries: Reconciliation.

The Swiss-Canadian library photographer Thomas Guignard approaches the Goethe Media Space in Toronto with a large-format photographic installation and asks about the design and use of public reading, thinking and research spaces. In which architectures do people meet, how do books and media play a role in the exchange of ideas? Thomas Guignard enters into an exchange with the interested public.

In autumn 2019 the Goethe-Institut Toronto invited the Frankfurt street art artist Justus Becker to Toronto. Together with other street artists* he created a large-format mural in the centre of the city. In return, Alexander Bacon Lazich will travel to Frankfurt during the Book Fair and, together with Becker, create a public mural at the "Messe" underground station. Motto of the artwork: United in diversity.