From October 14th to October 18th, 2015 took place at the Messe Frankfurt in Frankfurt am Main in Germany, the Messe Frankfurt Book Fair.

1. BOOK FAIR 2015 MESSE FRANKFURT
A report from Teddy Crispin
From October 14th to October 18th, 2015 took place at the Messe Frankfurt in Frankfurt am
Main in Germany, the Messe Frankfurt Book Fair. I attended the Messe Frankfurt Book Fair
2015 from October 16th
to October 18th, 2015.
This year the Messe Frankfurt Book Fair 2015 stretched itself between the hall 3 and the hall
6. Previous Messe Frankfurt Book Fairs had been stretching themselves between hall 1 and
hall 12, if I remember it well.
Does the book industry experience some kind of recession?
The exhibitors I met with told me that they were satisfied with the Messe Frankfurt Book Fair
2015. On Sunday, October 18, 2015, the hall 3 where there were a lot of German publishers
was overcrowded with visitors from the public.
At the Messe Frankfurt Book Fair, from Friday to Sunday, the Messe Frankfurt Book Fair is
open to public visitors, days previous are for professional people from the Book Industry.
From the time I was there, from Friday to Sunday, my impression was that there was a steady
flow of visitors, and in the hall 5 and 6 where there were publishers from the Middle East and
Asia, you could stroll easily from publishers to publishers, without having to cope with a huge
crowd of people.
During my visit of the Messe Frankfurt Book Fair 2015, I came across interesting books and
persons. Let’s start with the books:
Pierre Rabhi : Vers La Sobriété Heureuse : Actes Sud
Mohamedou Ould Slahi : Guantánamo Diary : Canon Gate
Albertine Sarrazin : L’Astragale : Pauvert
Patrick Roegiers : L’Autre Simenon : Grasset
Olivier Poivre d’Arvor : L’Amour A Trois : Grasset
Siegfried Pitschmann : Erziehung Eines Helden : Aisthesis
Juan Durán Luzio : Bartolomé de la Casas : Ante La Conquista De América : Las Voces Del
Historiador : Universidad Nacional Costa Rica
Philippe Forest : Aragon : Gallimard
Hélène Mongin : Louis et Zélie Martin : Les Saints de l’Ordinaire : Editions Emmanuel
Thierry Hénault-Morel : Louis et Zélie Martin : Editions du Cerf
Joël Pralong : Guérir de la blessure du Père : Editions des Béatitudes
Guillaume Sébastien : La Valse des Ames : Editions des Béatitudes
Jérôme Ferrari : Le Principe : Actes Sud
Jean-Marie Apostolides : DEBORD Le naufrageur : Flammarion
Delphine de Vigan : D’Après Une Histoire Vraie : JC Lattès

2. Gaston-Paul Effa : Rendez-vous Avec L’Heure Qui Blesse : Gallimard
Peter Hahne : Niemals aufgeben ! : mediaKern
Peter Dyckhoff : Sterben im Vertrauen auf Gott : media Maria
André Frossard : Maximilian Kolbe : Vergesst die Liebe nicht : media maria
Michael W. Higgins : Thomas Merton : Der geerdete Visionär : bibelwerk
Dschalaluddin Rumi : Traumbild des Herzens : Manesse
Jamal Sanad Al-Suwaidi : The Mirage
Muhammad Saalih Al-Munajjid : Interactions of the Greatest Leader : The Prophet’s Dealings
with Different People : Zad Publishing
People I came across at the Messe Frankfurt Book Fair 2015 and who presented me some of
the books above:
Richard David Precht : German Philosopher
Claire Teeuwissen : Foreign Rights : Actes Sud
Carole Saudejaud : Rights Director : Fayard – Mazarine – Mille Et Une Nuits - Pauvert
Pauline Perrignon : Foreign Rights : Grasset
Dr. Detlev Kopp : Head : Aisthesis Verlag
Prof. Dr. Dagoberto Arias Aguilar: Editor-in-Chief: Editorial Technológica de Costa Rica
Hélène Mongin : in charge of Communication : Editions Emmanuel
Mrs Cathy Brenti : Acquisitions Editor : Editions des Béatitudes
Wolfgang Hertling : Head : pala Verlag
Elizabeth White : Academic and Professional Rights Manager : Bloomsbury Publishing
Prof. Dr. Henry Keazor : Lehrstuhl für Neuere und Neueste Kunstgeschichte : Universität
Heidelberg
Gerhard Osterwald : Einkauf – Herstellung : Verlagsgruppe Kawohl
Gisela Geirhos : Manager : media maria
Eva Engesser : Advertising : Verlag Katholisches Bibelwerk GmbH
Christine Liebl : Person for the Press : Manesse
Rafal Kasprowski : Geographic Map Publishing
Book Fair 2015 Messe Frankfurt Facts and Numbers

3. At the Frankfurt Book Fair 2015, there were, according to the Messe Frankfurt, 275 791
visitors, 140 474 visitors from the world of books, and 135 317 visitors who came for various
reasons at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2015.
As for the exhibitors, according to the Messe Frankfurt, 7 145 exhibitors as a whole attended
the Frankfurt Book Fair 2015. 2 428 exhibitors came from Germany, and 4 717 exhibitors
came from various regions of the world.
104 countries were present at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2015.
According to the Messe Frankfurt, there were at the Frankfurt Book Fair Messe Frankfurt
2015 around 9 900 accredited journalists and bloggers.
3 200 participants from 48 countries attended the Business Club Messe Frankfurt, and 620
agents from 32 countries attended the LitAg Messe Frankfurt.
The next Messe Frankfurt Book Fair 2016 will take place between October 19th
and October
23rd
, 2016.
©2015 Teddy Crispin