frankfurt book fair edition 2022 new for italy

The Italian edition returns to the International Book Fair in Frankfurt, Germany. And it paves the way for our country to be guest of honor at the Frankfurter Buchmesse in two years, in 2024.

This year, the Frankfurt Book Fair will take place from October 19 to 23. 147 Italian exhibitors will be present. Spazio Italia, an Italian collective stand, will welcome 76 publishers in Hall 4.1 stand F31 and H38. It will be the Italian ambassador to Germany, Armando Varricchio, who will inaugurate the pavilion on the opening day of the Buchmesse, October 19 at 10:15 a.m. With him Ricardo Franco Levi, President of the AIE (Association of Italian Publishers) and Extraordinary Government Commissioner for Italy, guest of honor at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2024.

Frankfurt Book Fair. Photo Ansa / Epa Ronald Wittek

But in Frankfurt there will also be Roberto Luongo, director general of ICE (Agency for the promotion abroad and internationalization of Italian companies) and Paola Passarelli, director general of the Directorate of Libraries and Right to author of the Ministry of Culture.

The importance of the Buchmesse

The Italian cultural institutes in Germany oversee the program of events at the Frankfurt Fair. The Minister Plenipotentiary for Public and Cultural Diplomacy, Alessandro De Pedys, will be present for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. “Publishing, but more generally Italian culture – commented Ricardo Franco Levi – can find in Frankfurt the tool to make itself even better known throughout Europe and in the world in the years to come. We are already working on that”.

An image of the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2021. Photo Ansa / Epa Ronald Wittek

Frankfurt Fair, 300,000 visitors

Also on October 19, the day of the inauguration of the fair in Frankfurt, the AIE will present the report on the state of publishing for the year 2021 and the market data for the first 9 months of 2022, during a press conference to be held at Spazio Italia from 11:00 am All AIE events in Frankfurt can be found on the website: The Frankfurt Book Fair attracts on average more than 300,000 visitors each year. Also in the next edition, authors, journalists and writers will be present at the Buchmesse, including those who are now real entertainment and media stars.

There will, of course, be the most prestigious publishers in the world and the most established names in the creative industry. More than 7,450 exhibitors, coming from more than 104 countries of the planet, know it in all. Much of this will be spent on closing deals or building, or strengthening, relationships and professional connections that will be very important over the next year. The world-class Frankfurt Book Fair is a place for negotiation and relationship building, as well as the place where the latest technologies, trends and innovations are presented to an enthusiastic audience of industry experts.

Book fair, Buchmesse, in Frankfurt 2021. Photo Ansa / Epa Ronald Wittek