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4/10/2004

Frankfurt Book Fair

Messegelande, Frankfurt

The Frankfurt Book Fair is not just the biggest book fair in the world, but one of the most international worldwide.

From 6 - 10 October 2004, Frankfurt will once again be the venue for the world's largest trade fair for books, multimedia and communications. The Arabic World will be the new Guest of Honour.
Everyone who is anyone in the industry will be there: authors and publishers, booksellers and librarians, art dealers and illustrators, agents and journalists, information brokers and readers.

Not only is the Frankfurt Book Fair the meeting point for the business, it is also the world's largest marketplace for trading in publishing rights and licenses.

By the time the Frankfurt Book Fair 2004 is officially opened on 5 October, exhibitors from all five continents will already be in place. In total, 6,648 publishers and companies from 111 countries occupy an area of 170,000 square metres at the Frankfurt exhibition site to show their titles and to offer an insight into the culture of their countries through literature. A tour of the halls is much like a journey around the world.

Publishers from all continents: hall occupancy
Hall 8.0 houses the Anglophone countries. Alongside the USA and the UK, these also include Australia and New Zealand, as well as publishing companies from Israel, Ireland, Jamaica, Canada and South Africa. With around 1,600 English-speaking exhibitors, the hall is booked out down to the very last corner. For decades already the biggest fair for English-language publishers with approx. 2,000 Anglophone exhibitors, the Frankfurt Book Fair has expanded still further on this sector this year.

The only group larger than the English-language exhibitor contingent is that of the German-language publishing companies. Publishers and companies from Germany, Austria and Switzerland occupy Halls 3 and 4. Here are the theme-based events forums on the different levels, as well as the Fair’s various professional centres.

Hall 6.0 is home to two regions, with publishing companies from Asia and from Northern Europe showing their titles here. Korea, Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2005, is also represented with a large collective stand. One level above, in Hall 6.1, the Francophone exhibitors have their stands. Alongside publishing companies from France, Belgium and French Canada, the publishing companies from the Arab countries are in place here, too. The Guest of Honour appears with a major collective stand where the publishing scene from the Arab world will also introduce itself with events. The collective Arab World stand is a further addition to the Guest of Honour presentation in the Forum Level 1 and in the marquees on the outdoor area. A Muslim prayer room has also been set up two levels about the Arab publishing companies, in Hall 6.3.

Level 1 in Hall 5 is dedicated to the south. Publishing companies from South America and Southern Europe are together here, whilst one level below, in Hall 5.0, the publishing world from Central and Eastern Europe has its stands.
Guests from 37 countries: the Frankfurt Book Fair Invitation Programme
Hall 5.0 is the most international in its make-up. Alongside the Central and Eastern European publishing companies, this is also the venue for the stands of the guests of the Frankfurt Book Fair Invitation Programme. The sponsorship programme for publishing companies from structurally weak book markets has been organised for more than 30 years in partnership with Germany’s Foreign Office. This year, the programme makes it possible for a group of 43 publishers from 37 countries to introduce themselves at the industry’s biggest get-together in the world. Apart from their travel and accommodation, the carefully selected guests are also given a free stand at the Fair and can attend a two-day careers training seminar.

Apart from their regional diversity, the invited publishing companies reflect very different focuses in their publishing programmes. In the selection of this year’s guests, the emphasis was on the Arab World and there are also publishing companies in the group from various countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe. Apart from publishers, two regional organisations APNET (African Publishers Network) and CAPNET (Caribbean Publishers Network) are also represented in the guest group, alongside the Armenian and Kyrgyz publishers associations.

Financing for this sponsorship programme in aid of the international book industry is provided jointly by the Frankfurt Book Fair and Germany’s Foreign Office, together with the Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development and the Hesse Ministry of Trade and Commerce, Transport and Regional Development.

A platform for dialogue: The International Centre
The International Centre in Hall 5.0 is also the central platform for the international exchange of views and ideas about books and literature. This is where visitors can meet the international literary “commuters” (Crossing Borders events). Professional debates give a voice to both leading figures from the worlds of the arts and business and to publishers from the Invitation Programme (Frankfurt & Guests series). Every day at about midday, authors from faraway places will open up new vistas with their readings and talks – ranging from the Balkans to the immigrant worlds of Latin America and on to emergent Korea and Iraq (events in the “Other Literatures” series).

The afternoons are dedicated to the Guest of Honour appearance of the Arab World. Well-known writers and thinkers will debate on east-west relations, censorship in the Arab world and the potential for modernisation. Finally, at the end of each day, a well-known figure introduces a book or an author of their choice from a different cultural environment as part of the series “May I introduce …?”

The International Centre is jointly organised by the Frankfurt Book Fair and the Foreign Office. Official organisations active in the implementation of cultural and education policies in other countries will also be present here with stands on which they explain their activities in the promotion of international cultural exchange and knowledge transfer. Apart from the Foreign Office and the International Department of the Frankfurt Book Fair, other organisations in the Centre will be the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the German Archaeological Institute (DAI), the Goethe-Institut, the Institut Français, the Institute for Foreign Relations (ifa) and the berlin literary colloquium (lcb).

The Frankfurt Book Fair is the biggest book fair in the world - with more than 6,600 exhibitors from over 100 countries. It also organises the participation of German publishers at more than 20 international book fairs and maintains the most visited website worldwide for the publishing industry. The Frankfurt Book Fair is a subsidiary of the German Publishers & Booksellers Association.

Opening 5 October

Trade visitors with credentials/Press
Wednesday to Saturday: 9.00 am - 6.30 pm
Sunday: 9.00 am - 5.30 pm
(no tickets on sale as from 30 minutes before close of the day)

General public
Saturday: 9.00 am - 6.30 pm
Sunday: 9.00 am - 5.30 pm
(no tickets on sale as from 30 minutes before close of the day)

Contact for the media: Holger Ehling, Press & Corporate Communications, Frankfurt Book Fair, phone: +49 (0) 69 2102-217

Messegelände Frankfurt am Main
Ludwig-Erhard-Anlage 1
60327 Frankfurt am Main
Germany

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