Programme

View the full programme of Italy Guest of Honour 2024 at the Frankfurter Buchmesse.

14/10/202418:00 14/10/202419:00

Goethe University Frankfurt, Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 1, Frankfurt

Discussion about the roots of Christianity

Show details

15/10/202411:00 15/10/202412:00

Frankfurt Pavilion, Agora

Opening Press Conference of Frankfurter Buchmesse 2024

Show details

15/10/202412:30 15/10/202413:30

Info counter in front of the Guest of Honour Pavilion, Forum, Level 2

Press Tour of the Italy Guest of Honour Pavilion

Show details

15/10/202417:00 15/10/202418:30

Congress Center Messe Frankfurt (CMF), Harmonie Hall

Opening Ceremony of Frankfurter Buchmesse 2024, including Opening of Italy Guest of Honour Pavilion

Show details

15/10/202420:30 15/10/202422:00

Teatro Alte Oper, Operaplatz 1, 60313 Frankfurt

Puccini in Opera with the Orchestra of Arena di Verona Foundation

At the opening of the Book Fair, the prestigious Alte Oper theatre in Frankfurt will host an extraordinary event. In celebration of Giacomo Puccini’s centenary and Italy's appearance as Guest of Honour at the Book Fair after 36 years, the orchestra of the Arena di Verona will perform a tribute to the great composer together with some of the finest Italian voices.

Show details

16/10/202409:00 16/10/202411:30

Zentrum Wort | Hall 4.1

Dall’italiano al mondo – From Italian to the rest of the world

With

Annalena Benini, Juergen Boos, Emanuele Di Giorgi, Annette Kopetzki (Traduttrice), Vincenzo Latronico, Monica Malatesta, Beatrice Masini, Michael Reynolds, Ana Rodado, Susanne Schüssler (Verlag Klaus Wagenbach), Linus Guggenberger, Lorenza Honorati, Francesca Novajra, Laura Pugno, Audrey Scarbel

Curated by

The Turin International Book Fair

Show details

16/10/202410:00 16/10/202410:50

Arena | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

The Beauty of Words

Inauguration of the Italian Pavilion

With

Susanna Tamaro, Stefano Zecchi

Moderated by

Luigi Mascheroni (Journalist)

Show details

16/10/202410:30 16/10/202411:20

Collective Stand

Inauguration of the Italian Collective Stand

16/10/202411:00 16/10/202411:50

Arena | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

Living in the Time of the Apocalypse

With

Luigi Maria Epicoco, Carlo Rovelli

Moderated by

Nico Spuntoni (Journalist)

Show details

16/10/202411:00 20/10/202419:00

AusstellungsHalle 1a, Schulstraße 1a, 60594 Frankfurt

Photography exhibition by CRAF - Centro di Ricerca e Archiviazione della Fotografia

Show details

16/10/202411:30 16/10/202412:20

Caffè Letterario | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

Thinking of Moving to Berlin?

With

Andrea Bajani, Mario Desiati

Moderated by

Maria Carolina Foi (Università degli Studi di Trieste)

Show details

16/10/202411:30 16/10/202412:20

Room 1 | Italian Collective Stand Hall 5.0 (A22)

36 Years On. The Italian Book Market Today

With

Innocenzo Cipolletta (AIE – The Italian Publishers Association), Giovanni Hoepli (Hoepli Editore), Stefano Mauri (GeMS Gruppo Editoriale Mauri Spagnol), Susanne Schüssler (Verlag Klaus Wagenbach)

Moderated by

Karen Krüger (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)

Show details

16/10/202412:00 16/10/202412:50

Arena | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

Between Notes and Words

With

Frida Bollani Magoni

Moderated by

Adriano Monti Buzzetti (Centro per il libro e la lettura)

Show details

16/10/202412:30 16/10/202413:20

Caffè Letterario | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

In Search of Lost Pleasure

With

Giuseppe Culicchia, Giordano Bruno Guerri

Moderated by

Luciano Lanna (Centro per il libro e la lettura)

Show details

16/10/202412:30 16/10/202413:20

Room 1 | Italian Collective Stand Hall 5.0 (A22)

Translations. Bridging Cultures and Connecting Nations

With

Nicola Genga (Centro per il libro e la lettura), Stefano Melloni (SEPS - Segretariato Europeo per le Pubblicazioni Scientifiche), Laura Pugno (Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation)

Moderated by

Bruno Giancarli (AIE - The Italian Publishers Association)

Show details

16/10/202413:00 16/10/202413:50

Arena | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

“Face Value. 60 Italian Writers of the Twentieth Century”

Inauguration of the exhibition

Conceived by

The Italian Literary Agency

Curated by

Alberto Saibene (Curatore della mostra)

Exhibition design by

Francesco Dondina

In collaboration with

AIE

With the support of

Italy Guest of Honour 2024 at the Frankfurt Book Fair

With

Cristiana Chiumenti (Project coordinator), Alberto Saibene (Curatore della mostra), Marco Vigevani (The Italian Literary Agency)

Show details

16/10/202413:30 16/10/202414:20

Room 1 | Italian Collective Stand Hall 5.0 (A22)

Italian Books: Fiction

With

Gianluca Foglia (Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore), Paola Gallo (Giulio Einaudi Editore), Antonio Sellerio (Sellerio Editore)

Moderated by

Piero Salabè (Carl Hanser Verlag)

Show details

16/10/202413:30 16/10/202414:20

Room 2 | Italian Collective Stand Hall 5.0 (B44)

Community of readers. Policies for the dissemination and promotion of books

Regione Lombardia

Welcome from

Massimo Darchini (Consul General of Italy)

With

Francesca Caruso (Regione Lombardia/Four Motors for Europe), Tom Erben (German Publishers and Booksellers Association)

Conclusions by

Mauro Mazza (Extraordinary Commissioner of the Government for the Frankfurter Buchmesse 2024)

Moderated by

Paolo Verri (Fondazione Arnoldo e Alberto Mondadori)

Video contribution by

Sergio Dogliani (Idea Store)

Show details

16/10/202413:30 16/10/202414:20

Caffè Letterario | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

“From Illustration to Comics. Pencils in Talented Young Hands”

Inauguration of the exhibition

Curated by

Drosselmeier Academy

Organised by

Bologna Children’s Book Fair

In collaboration with

AIE

With the support of

Italy Guest of Honour 2024 at the Frankfurt Book Fair

With

Ivan Canu (Illustrator), Grazia Gotti (Drosselmeier Academy/Giannino Stoppani Children's Bookshop), Elena Pasoli (Bologna Children's Book Fair), Silvana Sola (Drosselmeier Academy/Giannino Stoppani Children's Bookshop)

Show details

16/10/202414:00 16/10/202414:50

Arena | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

Between Naples and Europe: Celebrating the 800th Anniversary of Università di Napoli Federico II

With

Matteo Lorito, Enrico Schleiff

Moderated by

Christiane Liermann Traniello (Villa Vigoni)

Show details

16/10/202414:30 16/10/202415:20

Caffè Letterario | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

Two Hearts So Many Stories

With

Teresa Radice, Stefano Turconi

Moderated by

Paola Colombo (Cosmo/Westdeutscher Runfunk)

Show details

16/10/202414:30 16/10/202415:20

Room 1 | Italian Collective Stand Hall 5.0 (A22)

Italian Books: Non-fiction

With

Andrea Angiolini (Società editrice il Mulino), Giovanni Carletti (Editori Laterza), Roberto Revello (Mimesis Edizioni)

Moderated by

Susanne Simor (Verlag C.H. Beck)

Show details

16/10/202415:00 16/10/202415:50

Arena | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

The Great Piazza of Books and Ideas

With

Giovanni Agosti, Stefano Boeri

Moderated by

Luigi Mascheroni (Journalist)

Show details

16/10/202415:30 16/10/202416:20

Caffè Letterario | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

My Home is Where I Write

With

Olga Campofreda, Igiaba Scego

Moderated by

Shelly Kupferberg (Deutschlandfunk Kultur, RBB Kultur)

Show details

16/10/202415:30 16/10/202416:20

Room 1 | Italian Collective Stand Hall 5.0 (A22)

Travels in Italy. Travels in Germany. Exchanges between the two publishers

With

Isabella Amico Di Meane (Translator), Alessandra Ballesi-Hansen (NonsoloVerlag), Annette Kopetzki (Traduttrice), Marina Pugliano (Translator)

Moderated by

Viktoria von Schirach (Agenzia Scouting Schirach)

In collaboration with

Associazione Italiana Traduttori e Interpreti, StradeLab

Show details

16/10/202415:30 16/10/202416:20

Room 2 | Italian Collective Stand Hall 5.0 (B44)

Promoting the artistic-cultural heritage of Lazio through publishing: a global challenge

Regione Lazio

Show details

16/10/202416:00 16/10/202416:50

Arena | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

On the Edge of the Abyss. Artists, Writers and intellectuals on the Eve of the Second World War

With

Marina Valensise, Uwe Wittstock

Moderated by

Christiane Liermann Traniello (Villa Vigoni)

Show details

16/10/202416:30 16/10/202417:20

Caffè Letterario | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

Experiencing Books to the Full

With

Antonio Franchini, Rosella Postorino, Chiara Valerio

Moderated by

Anna Vollmer (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)

Show details

16/10/202416:30 16/10/202417:20

Room 1 | Italian Collective Stand Hall 5.0 (A22)

Promoting Literature: A Comparative Exploration of Italian and European Strategies

With

Laura Ballestra (AIB - Associazione Italiana Biblioteche), Renata Gorgani (Il Castoro), Adriano Monti Buzzetti (Centro per il libro e la lettura), Miha Kovač (Ljubljana Reading Manifesto)

Moderated by

Giovanni Solimine (Fondazione Maria e Goffredo Bellonci)

In collaboration with

Centro per il libro e la lettura, AIB - Associazione Italiana Biblioteche

Show details

16/10/202417:00 16/10/202417:50

Arena | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

The Culture That Unites. From Manuzio to the ebook

With

Massimo Bray, Umberto Vattani (Ambassador, President of Venice International University)

Moderated by

Luciano Lanna (Centro per il libro e la lettura), Alessandro De Pedys

Show details

16/10/202417:00 16/10/202417:50

Room Venice International University - Manuzio and the book revolution | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

Reading in the Dark®

Welcome address from

Cristina Mussinelli (Fondazione LIA – Libri Italiani Accessibili), Umberto Vattani (Ambassador, President of Venice International University)

With

Viola Ardone, Giuseppe Culicchia, Alessandro Magno (Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore), Clara Ori

Moderated by

Elisa Molinari (Fondazione LIA – Libri Italiani Accessibili)

Curated by

Fondazione LIA (Libri Italiani Accessibili)

With the support of

Italy Guest of Honour 2024 at the Frankfurt Book Fair

Show details

16/10/202417:30 16/10/202418:20

Caffè Letterario | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

In this World of Ogres

With

Ginevra Lamberti, Alice Urciuolo

Moderated by

Maike Albath (Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Die Zeit)

Show details

16/10/202420:00 16/10/202421:30

Teatro Alte Oper, Operaplatz 1, 60313 Frankfurt

Concert: Taranta of Love and Italian Dances

With Maestro Ambrogio Sparagna, the Orchestra Popolare Italiana and the Corpo di Ballo Popolare of the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome

Show details

17/10/202410:00 17/10/202410:50

Arena | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

Reading Nurtures Growth

With

Davide Calì, Beatrice Masini, Patrizia Rinaldi

Moderated by

Marlene Zöhrer (Centro KiJuLit, kinderund Jugendmedien.de)

Show details

17/10/202410:30 17/10/202411:20

Caffè Letterario | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

In Search of the Great European (and Italian) Novel

With

Vincenzo Latronico, Gianluigi Simonetti

Moderated by

Maike Albath (Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Die Zeit)

Show details

17/10/202410:30 17/10/202411:20

Room 1 | Italian Collective Stand Hall 5.0 (A22)

Artificial Intelligence: new rules, challenges and opportunities for Innovation

Welcome address from

Innocenzo Cipolletta (AIE – The Italian Publishers Association), Ricardo Franco Levi (FEP - Federation of European Publishers)

With

Elisabeth Crossick (RELX), Quentin Deschandelliers (FEP - Federation of European Publishers)

Moderated by

Maria Pallante (AAP - Association of American Publishers)

In collaboration with

FEP - Federation of European Publishers

Show details

17/10/202410:30 17/10/202411:20

Room 2 | Italian Collective Stand Hall 5.0 (B44)

Publishing in Lazio: successful small and medium enterprises tell their stories

Regione Lazio

Show details

17/10/202411:00 17/10/202411:50

Arena | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

When Words Transform into Image

With

Pupi Avati, Simona Ercolani

Moderated by

Gianvito Casadonte (Journalist)

Show details

17/10/202411:30 17/10/202412:20

Caffè Letterario | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

Literature that Heals and Endures

With

Francesca Melandri, Fabio Stassi

Moderated by

Lothar Müller (Süddeutsche Zeitung)

Show details

17/10/202411:30 17/10/202412:20

Room 1 | Italian Collective Stand Hall 5.0 (A22)

Small and Medium-Sized Publishers in Italy and Europe

With

Lorenzo Armando (Lexis / AIE), Daniel Beskos (Mairisch Verlag / Kurt Wolff Stiftung), Nicolas Filicic (Les Belles Lettres), Jordi Nadal (Plataforma Editorial)

Moderated by

Annamaria Malato (Più libri più liberi)

In collaboration with

Più libri più liberi - Fiera nazionale della Piccola e media editoria (Italian Independent Publishers Book Fair)

Show details

17/10/202412:00 17/10/202412:50

Arena | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

The Culture That Unites. Nation and Country, Right and Left. The Rationale for Dialogue

With

Alessandro Campi, Andrea Romano

Moderated by

Tommaso Ricci (Journalist)

Show details

17/10/202412:30 17/10/202413:20

Caffè Letterario | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

Living on the Edge of the Line

With

Mauro Covacich, Paolo Rumiz

Moderated by

Tilman Spreckelsen (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)

Show details

17/10/202412:30 17/10/202413:20

Room 1 | Italian Collective Stand Hall 5.0 (A22)

Italian Publishing Goes abroad: More than Rights

With

Sandro Ferri (Edizioni E/O), Andrea Ferro (Casalini Libri), Roberto Gilodi (Reiser Literary Agency / ADALI), Fiammetta Giorgi (Mondadori Libri)

Moderated by

Porter Anderson (Publishing Perspectives)

In collaboration with

ADALI

Show details

17/10/202413:30 17/10/202414:20

Room 1 | Italian Collective Stand Hall 5.0 (A22)

Italian Books: Publishing for Children and Young Adults

With a welcome address from

Elena Pasoli (Bologna Children's Book Fair)

With

Paolo Canton (Topipittori), Carlo Gallucci (Gallucci Editore), Edmund Jacoby (Jacoby & Stuart), Gaia Stock (Edizioni EL)

Moderated by

Martina Russo (Rivista Andersen)

Show details

17/10/202414:00 17/10/202414:50

Arena | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

Discourse on Methodology

Led by

Loretta Cavaricci (Journalist)

Show details

17/10/202414:00 17/10/202414:50

Room Venice International University - Manuzio and the book revolution | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

Reading in the Dark®

With

Pierdomenico Baccalario, Giulia Caminito, Paolo Rumiz, Clara Ori

Moderated by

Elisa Molinari (Fondazione LIA – Libri Italiani Accessibili)

Curated by

Fondazione LIA (Libri Italiani Accessibili)

With the support of

Italy Guest of Honour 2024 at the Frankfurt Book Fair

Show details

17/10/202414:30 17/10/202415:20

Room 2 | Italian Collective Stand Hall 5.0 (B44)

The BEIC, a new generation library for Milan, Lombardy and Italy

With

Stefano Parise (Comune di Milano), Tommaso Sacchi (Comune di Milano), Andrea Zanderigo (Studio Baukuh)

Show details

17/10/202414:30 17/10/202415:20

Caffè Letterario | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

Comics and Animation: Intersecting Worlds of Paper and YouTube

With

Luca Enoch, Pera Toons

Moderated by

Tilman Spreckelsen (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)

Show details

17/10/202414:30 17/10/202415:20

Room 1 | Italian Collective Stand Hall 5.0 (A22)

Italian Books: Art and Design

With

Pietro Corraini (Corraini Edizioni), Roberto Koch (Contrasto Books), Chiara Savino (Sole 24 Ore - Cultura)

Moderated by

Moritz Kirschner (Verlag Antje Kunstmann)

Show details

17/10/202415:00 17/10/202415:50

Arena | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. Era of Words and the Words of Our Era

With

Claudio Magris

Show details

17/10/202415:30 17/10/202416:20

Caffè Letterario | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

The Typewriter of Time

With

Viola Ardone, Donatella Di Pietrantonio, Gian Marco Griffi

Moderated by

Shelly Kupferberg (Deutschlandfunk Kultur, RBB Kultur)

Show details

17/10/202415:30 17/10/202416:20

Room 1 | Italian Collective Stand Hall 5.0 (A22)

Italian Books: Sports

With

Vittorio Anastasia (Ediciclo Editore), Giovanni Di Giorgi (Lab DFG - Premio Invictus), Isabella Ferretti (66thand2nd)

Moderated by

Karin Plötz (LitCam)

Show details

17/10/202415:30 17/10/202416:20

Room 2 | Italian Collective Stand Hall 5.0 (B44)

The Future of Memory. Fondazione Mondadori Under the Test of Artificial Intelligence

With

Angela Ida De Benedictis (Paul Sacher Stiftung), Louise Dutertre (Imec), Pierluigi Ledda (Archivio Storico Ricordi), Nathalie Léger (Imec), Michele Patella (Audio Innova)

Moderated by

Luca Formenton (Fondazione Arnoldo e Alberto Mondadori)

Curated by

Fondazione Arnoldo e Alberto Mondadori

Show details

17/10/202416:00 17/10/202416:50

Arena | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

Classics Beyond the Confines of Time

With

Alessandro D’Avenia

Moderated by

To be confirmed

Show details

17/10/202416:30 17/10/202417:20

Caffè Letterario | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

That Kind of Violence

With

Silvia Avallone, Giulia Caminito

Moderated by

Karen Krüger (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)

Show details

17/10/202416:30 17/10/202417:20

Room 1 | Italian Collective Stand Hall 5.0 (A22)

Booksellers of the Future: Ideas and Projects for the Training of European Booksellers

With

Aldo Addis (Scuola librai italiani), Luis Gonzalez (Fundacion Germán Sánchez Ruipére), Caroline Meneghetti (L'École de la Librairie)

Moderated by

Paolo Ambrosini (Associazione Librai Italiani - Confcommercio)

Curated by

Associazione Librai Italiani - Confcommercio

Show details

17/10/202416:30 17/10/202417:20

Room 2 | Italian Collective Stand Hall 5.0 (B44)

Public financing and publishing. Autonomous Province of Bolzano South Tyrol: a law to support publishing projects linked to the territory

Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano Alto Adige-Südtirol

With

Luca Bizzarri (Ufficio Educazione permanente, biblioteche e audiovisivi, Cultura italiana)

Show details

17/10/202417:00 17/10/202417:50

Arena | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

Duties of Culture

With

Francesco Borgonovo, Giacomo Marramao, Marco Tarchi

Moderated by

Tommaso Ricci (Journalist)

Show details

17/10/202417:30 17/10/202418:20

Caffè Letterario | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

Between Ethics and Happiness

With

Gianrico Carofiglio, Emanuele Coccia

Moderated by

Cinzia Sciuto (MicroMega)

Show details

17/10/202417:30 17/10/202418:20

Room 2 | Italian Collective Stand Hall 5.0 (B44)

The publishing cluster in Piemonte: an Italian success story

Regione Piemonte

Show details

17/10/202417:30 17/10/202418:20

Room 1 | Italian Collective Stand Hall 5.0 (A22)

How does literary talent change?

With

Maike Albath (Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Die Zeit), Antonio Franchini, Gianluigi Simonetti

Show details

17/10/202419:30 17/10/202420:30

Literaturhaus, Schöne Aussicht 2, 60311 Frankfurt

Theatrical reading of “Tempo curvo a Krems” by Claudio Magris

Show details

18/10/202410:00 18/10/202410:50

Arena | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

Adventures, Mysteries and Spells: the Secret Formula behind Children's Bestsellers

With

Pierdomenico Baccalario, Elisabetta Dami, Elisabetta Gnone

Moderated by

Marlene Zöhrer (Centro KiJuLit, kinderund Jugendmedien.de)

Show details

18/10/202410:30 18/10/202411:20

Caffè Letterario | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

The Scent of Flowers and Kisses

With

Cristina Caboni, Kira Shell

Moderated by

Paola Colombo (Cosmo/Westdeutscher Runfunk)

Show details

18/10/202410:30 18/10/202411:20

Room 1 | Italian Collective Stand Hall 5.0 (A22)

Accessible Publishing

With

Andrea Angiolini (Società editrice il Mulino), Irene Enriques (Zanichelli), Alessandro Magno (Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore)

Moderated by

Cristina Mussinelli (Fondazione LIA – Libri Italiani Accessibili)

Curated by

Fondazione LIA (Libri Italiani Accessibili)

Show details

18/10/202410:30 18/10/202411:20

Room 2 | Italian Collective Stand Hall 5.0 (B44)

The Excellence of the Italian Supply Chain in Premium Book Design and Printing

With

Emanuele Bandecchi (Rotolito S.p.A.), Sandro Berra (Grafiche Antiga), Emanuele Bona (Federazione Italiana Carta e Grafica), Alessandro Nardelli (Cartiere del Garda-Lecta Group SA), Michele Lanzinger (ICOM Italia), Erik Spiekermann (Graphic designer)

Moderated by

Michela Pìbiri (PRINTlovers)

Curated by

Federazione Italiana Carta e Grafica

Show details

18/10/202411:30 18/10/202412:20

Caffè Letterario | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

What Women are Telling Us. The Feminine Side of Art and Literature

With

Annalena Benini, Melania G. Mazzucco

Moderated by

Karen Krüger (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)

Show details

18/10/202411:30 18/10/202412:20

Room 1 | Italian Collective Stand Hall 5.0 (A22)

Books in the piazza. Meeting and Engaging with Writers at Literary Festivals

With

Ruggero Cappuccio (Fondazione Campania dei Festival), Antonella Ferrara (TaoBuk Taormina Book Festival), Piergaetano Marchetti (BookCity Milano), Gian Mario Villalta (Pordenonelegge)

Moderated by

Cristina Giordano (Cosmo/Westdeutscher Runfunk)

Show details

18/10/202411:30 18/10/202412:20

Room 2 | Italian Collective Stand Hall 5.0 (B44)

Crossing Boundaries: Redefining Publishing Frontiers

Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia

With

Elisa Copetti (Bottega Errante Edizioni), Dario De Cristoforo (Italo Svevo), Alberto Gaffi (Italo Svevo), Erika Hornbogner (Wieser e Drava Verlag), Mitja Ličen (GOGA), Ivan Sršen (Sandorf)

Moderated by

Diego Marani

Show details

18/10/202412:00 18/10/202412:50

Arena | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

Let me tell you a story

With

Alessandro Barbero, Aldo Cazzullo

Moderated by

Christoph Cornelissen (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)

Show details

18/10/202412:30 18/10/202413:20

Caffè Letterario | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

Brooklyn, Bavaria, Italy: A World to Narrate

With

Claudia Durastanti, Helena Janeczek

Moderated by

Markus Messling (Käte Hamburger Kolleg CUE)

Show details

18/10/202412:30 18/10/202413:20

Room 1 | Italian Collective Stand Hall 5.0 (A22)

Accompanying Publishers Abroad

With

Antonella Fabbrini (IT Publishing), Paolo Grossi (New Italian Books), Matteo Masini (ITA - Italian Trade Agency)

Moderated by

Samuele Cafasso (AIE - The Italian Publishers Association)

Show details

18/10/202413:30 18/10/202414:20

Caffè Letterario | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

A beautiful madness, the highest alert

With

Laura Accerboni, Marko Miladinović

Curated by

Fondazione svizzera per la cultura Pro Helvetia

Show details

18/10/202414:00 18/10/202414:50

Arena | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

Giving voice to stories

A literary voyage of discovery through audiobooks

Moderated by

Loretta Cavaricci (Journalist)

with

Valentina Mari (Narrator), Paolo Cresta (Narrator)

Introduction by

Juan Baixeras (Audible Country manager Italy & Spain)

Presented by

Audible

Show details

18/10/202414:00 18/10/202414:50

Room Venice International University - Manuzio and the book revolution | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

Reading in the Dark®

With

Paolo Nori, Pierdomenico Baccalario, Marco Balzano, Clara Ori

Moderated by

Elisa Molinari (Fondazione LIA – Libri Italiani Accessibili)

Curated by

Fondazione LIA (Libri Italiani Accessibili)

With the support of

Italy Guest of Honour 2024 at the Frankfurt Book Fair

Show details

18/10/202414:00 18/10/202414:50

Arena | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

Giving stories a voice

A literary voyage of discovery through audiobooks

Moderated by

Loretta Cavaricci (Journalist)

with

Valentina Mari (Narrator), Paolo Cresta (Narrator)

Introduction by

Juan Baixeras (Audible Country manager Italy & Spain)

Presented by

Audible

Show details

18/10/202414:30 18/10/202415:20

Caffè Letterario | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

Having it All and Other Small Miracles

With

Marco Missiroli, Valeria Parrella

Moderated by

Thomas Geiger (Literarisches Colloquium Berlin)

Show details

18/10/202414:30 18/10/202415:20

Room 1 | Italian Collective Stand Hall 5.0 (A22)

Italian Books: Comics

With

Giovanni Ferrara (Coconino Press), Caterina Marietti (Bao Publishing), Stefania Simonini (Panini Comics)

Moderated by

Dirk Rehm (Reprodukt)

Show details

18/10/202415:00 18/10/202415:50

Arena | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

Literature and civic engagement

With

Alessandro Baricco

Show details

18/10/202415:30 18/10/202416:20

Caffè Letterario | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

The Grammar of Illustrated Fantasy

With

Beatrice Alemagna, Olimpia Zagnoli

Moderated by

Stefan Trinks (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)

Show details

18/10/202415:30 18/10/202416:20

Room 2 | Italian Collective Stand Hall 5.0 (B44)

Recounting Marco Polo’s extraordinary journey

Regione Veneto

With

Giovanni Montanaro (writer and lawyer)

Show details

18/10/202416:00 18/10/202416:50

Arena | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

The Importance of Being “Strega”

With

Donatella Di Pietrantonio, Stefano Petrocchi

Moderated by

Cristina Giordano (Cosmo/Westdeutscher Runfunk)

Show details

18/10/202416:30 18/10/202417:20

Caffè Letterario | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

More in Translation

With

Marco Balzano, Paolo Nori

Moderated by

Maike Albath (Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Die Zeit)

Show details

18/10/202416:30 18/10/202417:20

Room 1 | Italian Collective Stand Hall 5.0 (A22)

Accademia della Crusca and Accademia dell'Arcadia, from History into the Future

With

Maurizio Campanelli (Accademia dell’Arcadia), Rosario Coluccia (Accademia della Crusca), Bernhard Huss (Italienzentrum di Berlino)

Moderated by

Harro Stammerjohann (Accademia della Crusca)

Curated by

Accademia della Crusca, Accademia dell’Arcadia

Show details

18/10/202417:00 18/10/202417:50

Arena | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

The Science of the Future: in Search of the Perfect Balance between Freedom and Responsibility

With

Guido Barbujani, Massimo Sandal

Moderated by

Stefan Klein (Saggista)

Show details

18/10/202417:30 18/10/202418:20

Caffè Letterario | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

Poems of love and humanity

With

Vivian Lamarque, Asmus Trautsch (Philosopher and poet)

Show details

18/10/202417:30 18/10/202418:20

Room 1 | Italian Collective Stand Hall 5.0 (A22)

The return of the ghosts

With

Donatella Di Pietrantonio, Helena Janeczek, Katja Lange-Müller, Birgit Schönau

Show details

18/10/202418:00 18/10/202420:00

DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum, Schaumainkai 41, 60596 Frankfurt

First theatre showing of Alessandro Melazzini’s docufilm “Italo Svevo. Scrivere nascosto a Trieste”

Show details

18/10/202419:30 18/10/202421:30

Teatro Oper Untermainanlage 11, 60311 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Events Opera: Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi, directed by Hendrik Müller and conducted by Giuseppe Mentuccia

Work in three acts, booklet by Francesco Maria Piave, after a play by Victor Hugo (1851).

Show details

19/10/202410:00 19/10/202410:50

Arena | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

The Flying Carpet of Fantasy

With

Chiara Carminati, Davide Morosinotto, Marta Palazzesi

Moderated by

Anna Vollmer (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)

Show details

19/10/202410:30 19/10/202411:20

Caffè Letterario | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

Seaside Towns and Ancient Villages

With

Vins Gallico, Sacha Naspini

Moderated by

Giulio Galoppo (Cosmo/Westdeutscher Runfunk)

Show details

19/10/202411:00 19/10/202411:50

Arena | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

The Culture That Unites. Russia and Europe

With

Luciano Mecacci

Moderated by

Pierfranco Bruni (Poet and Writer)

Show details

19/10/202411:30 19/10/202412:20

Caffè Letterario | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

The Author in the Mirror

With

Daniele Mencarelli, Annette Kopetzki (Traduttrice)

Show details

19/10/202412:00 19/10/202412:50

Arena | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

Return Journey: Root Tourism

With

Riccardo Giumelli, Luigi Maria Vignali

Moderated by

To be confirmed

Show details

19/10/202412:30 19/10/202413:20

Caffè Letterario | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

Of Uncertain Genesis

With

Erri De Luca, Guido Tonelli

Moderated by

Stefan Klein (Saggista)

Show details

19/10/202414:00 19/10/202414:50

Arena | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

Discourse on Methodology

With

Loretta Cavaricci (Journalist)

Show details

19/10/202414:00 19/10/202414:50

Room Venice International University - Manuzio and the book revolution | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

Reading in the Dark®

With

Erin Doom, Erri De Luca, Clara Ori

Moderated by

Elisa Molinari (Fondazione LIA – Libri Italiani Accessibili)

Curated by

Fondazione LIA (Libri Italiani Accessibili)

With the support of

Italy Guest of Honour 2024 at the Frankfurt Book Fair

Show details

19/10/202414:30 19/10/202415:20

Caffè Letterario | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

Everything is illustrated

With

Lorenzo Mattotti, Alessandro Sanna

Moderated by

Stefan Trinks (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)

Show details

19/10/202415:00 19/10/202415:50

Arena | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. The Era of Words and the Words of Our Era

With

Dacia Maraini

Show details

19/10/202415:30 19/10/202416:20

Caffè Letterario | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

Every story is a place

With

Paolo Cognetti, Nicola Lagioia

Moderated by

Andreas Platthaus (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)

Show details

19/10/202416:00 19/10/202416:50

Arena | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

Every Shade of Crime Fiction

Moderated by

Alf Mayer (Cultur Mag)

Show details

19/10/202416:30 19/10/202417:20

Caffè Letterario | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

You write Romance, You Read Bestsellers

With

Erin Doom, Felicia Kingsley

Moderated by

To be confirmed

Show details

19/10/202417:00 19/10/202417:50

Arena | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

Homage to Andrea Camilleri

Prologue by

Antonio Sellerio (Sellerio Editore)

Readings by

Massimo Venturiello

Show details

19/10/202417:30 19/10/202418:20

Caffè Letterario | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

Poems of Sea and Hills

With

Giuseppe Conte, Davide Rondoni

Moderated by

Pierfranco Bruni (Poet and Writer)

Show details

19/10/202417:30 19/10/202418:20

Room 2 | Italian Collective Stand Hall 5.0 (B44)

Friuli Venezia Giulia: a place of words and stories

Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia

With

Dario De Cristoforo (Italo Svevo), Antonella Fiaschi (FVG Writers' Association), Alberto Gaffi (Italo Svevo), Diego Marani, Mariaelena Porzio (FVG Writers’ Association)

Show details

19/10/202420:00 19/10/202422:45

Festival Hall Ludwig-Erhard-Anlage 1, 60327 Frankfurt am Main

Grand finale of the Italian presence in Frankfurt at the 2024 edition of the Buchmesse with passion, romance and emotion.

Show details

20/10/202410:00 20/10/202410:50

Arena | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

Neighbours in Culture and Context

With

Mario Anzil (Vice President and Regional Councillor for Culture and Sport of Friuli Venezia Giulia), Samo Turel (Mayor of Nova Gorica), Rodolfo Ziberna (Mayor of Gorizia)

Show details

20/10/202410:30 20/10/202411:20

Caffè Letterario | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

Genius, Passions and Mysteries of Art and Music

With

Rita Charbonnier, Luigi De Pascalis, Carlo Vecce

Moderated by

Giulio Galoppo (Cosmo/Westdeutscher Runfunk)

Show details

20/10/202410:30 20/10/202411:20

Room 2 | Italian Collective Stand Hall 5.0 (B44)

Calvino unpublished: Italian politics in 1976

National Library of Rome

With

Stefano Campagnolo (BNCR), Eleonora Cardinale (BNCR)

Show details

20/10/202411:00 20/10/202411:50

Arena | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

The Power of Queens and Lions

With

Stefania Auci, Alessandra Necci

Moderated by

Anna Vollmer (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)

Show details

20/10/202411:30 20/10/202412:20

Caffè Letterario | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

Hunger, Modesty and Other Boundless Emotions

With

Maddalena Fingerle, Anna Giurickovic Dato

Moderated by

Andreas Pfeifer (ORF Berlin)

Show details

20/10/202412:00 20/10/202412:50

Arena | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

The Culture That Unites. Religion and Roots

With

Rav Scialom Bahbout, Monsignor Francesco Moraglia

Moderated by

Nico Spuntoni (Journalist)

Show details

20/10/202412:30 20/10/202413:20

Caffè Letterario | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

Women and the World: Life and Adventure (Re)Drawn Through the Lens of Comics

With

Igort, Milo Manara

Moderated by

Andreas Platthaus (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)

Show details

20/10/202416:00 20/10/202416:50

Arena | Italian Pavilion (Forum 1)

Handover Ceremony with the Philippines

With

Alessandro Sanna

Show details