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Frankfurt Book Fair
Guest of Honour 2026

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Guest of Honour

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    Czechia 2026, reading
  • DE
  • Vratislav Maňák
    • With Wittgenstein in a Gay Sauna: author’s reading and discussion, with Vratislav Maňák
    • Maňák Vratislav

    • Venue:
      Bar.Café.Kultur. Switchboard
  • In his new book With Wittgenstein in a Gay Sauna, published in German translation in 2026 by Karl Rauch Verlag, Czech writer and journalist Vratislav Maňák makes a journey of personal and social experience thro...
    • Moderates: Tim Beisswenger
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    Czechia 2026, debate
    • By the lake, in the garden, among the mushrooms: where do Czech illustrators look for inspiration?
    • Illnerová Kateřina
      Lučanská Lucie
      Stibitzová Petra Josefína
      Tachezy Andrea

    • CZ / EN
    • Venue:
      Frankfurter Buchmesse - Czechia 2026 Pavilion - Harbour Stage
  • How important are Czech everyday realities for the creation of illustrated books? What makes a landscape typically Czech? Do Czech illustrators wander? If so, do they ever get lost? What were the special secluded pl...
    • Moderates: Renáta Fučíková
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    Czechia 2026, debate
    • How does the Creative Europe programme support the Czech book-publishing industry?
    • Asik Natasa
      Čičváková Michala
      Kaprálová Dora
      Laura Serrao
      Luchetti Alessandra
      Mornštajnová Alena
      Raimbault Anaïs
      Vybíralová Sára

    • EN
    • Venue:
      Frankfurter Buchmesse - Tschechischer Nationalstand 3.1 / C65
  • The Creative Europe programme has been supporting culture and the creative industries in over forty European countries for many years by helping projects that connect creators, institutions and audiences across European ...
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      Czechia 2026, debate
      • TO THE SEA! Where is (contemporary) Czech poetry heading?
      • Krásová Adriana
        Macl Ondřej
        Miesenböck Julia

      • CZ / EN
      • Venue:
        Frankfurter Buchmesse - Czechia 2026 Pavilion - Shore Stage
    • TO THE SEA! is a new platform launched by the Czech Centres for presentation abroad of contemporary Czech poetry by the younger generation. It is based on a curated selection of authors that favours authenticit...
      • Moderates: Jan M. Heller
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      Czechia 2026, debate
      • The Czech-German Future Fund presents: Czech voices in Germany – publishing Czech literature in Germany
      • Heftrich Urs
        Pester Nora
        Pliske Roman

      • DE
      • Venue:
        Frankfurter Buchmesse - Tschechischer Nationalstand 3.1 / C65
    • How does Czech literature find its way into Germany? Three experienced German publishers talk about surprising discoveries, reader reactions and challenges — and how Czech fiction and poetry enrich the German literary la...
      • Moderates: Susanne Sehlbach, Tomáš Jelínek
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      Czechia 2026, concert
      • Theresa Clauberg and Lucie Steiner
      • Clauberg Theresa
        Steiner Lucie

      • CZ / EN / DE
      • Venue:
        Frankfurter Buchmesse - Czechia 2026 Pavilion - Harbour Stage
    • Theresa Clauberg and Lucie Steiner form a violin and clarinet duo performing classical music. Theresa Clauberg is a violinist, translator and cultural manager. In 2019, she received the Susanna Roth Prize for a...
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        Czechia 2026, reading
      • CZ
        • Images of darkness and hope in literature for older children and young adults
        • Hadas Hana
          Hanel Petr
          Matocha Vojtěch
          Osoha Karel

        • Venue:
          Frankfurter Buchmesse - Czechia 2026 Pavilion - Shore Stage
      • Dustopia, a successful novel trilogy by Vojtěch Matocha, revolves around a fictitious Prague district with no mobile signal, no electricity and no wireless connection. This is the backdrop for a trio of br...
        • Moderates: Hana Hadas
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        Czechia 2026, reading
      • CZ / DE
        • Writing our own lives and the lives of others
        • Faulerová Lucie
          Torčík Marek

        • Venue:
          Frankfurter Buchmesse - Czechia 2026 Pavilion - Harbour Stage
      • The recent surge of interest in autofiction again raises questions of where lies the boundary between autobiography and fiction. Lucie Faulerová and Marek Torčík work with personal experience and the stories of others. T...
        • German reading: Stephan Wolf-Schönburg
        • Moderates: Holger Heimann
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        Czechia 2026, debate
        • Introducing children to the world of books
        • Březinová Ivona
          Havlínová Hana
          Vaníčková Makosová Edita

        • CZ / EN
        • Venue:
          Frankfurter Buchmesse - Tschechischer Nationalstand 3.1 / C65
      • How can schools in the Czech Republic encourage preschoolers to enjoy books and reading? This discussion will focus on the development of children’s reading in schools and look at materials that support teaching methodol...
        • Moderates: Jana Čeňková
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        Czechia 2026, reading
      • CZ / DE
        • Dystopia as a mirror of the present
        • Hamplová Kristina
          Hůlová Petra
          Vopěnka Martin

        • Venue:
          Frankfurter Buchmesse - Czechia 2026 Pavilion - Shore Stage
      • Contemporary Czech fiction often depicts a world on the brink of collapse, in which basic social structures and interpersonal relationships are disintegrating. Kristina Hamplová, Petra Hůlová and Martin Vopěnka each...
        • Moderates: Zuzana Jürgens
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        Czechia 2026, debate
        • To serve the truth, to bear witness, to make the world a more humane place
        • Lustigová Eva
          Mann Jindřich
          Rudiš Jaroslav

        • DE
        • Venue:
          Frankfurter Buchmesse - Czechia 2026 Pavilion - Harbour Stage
      • Eva Lustigová, daughter of the Czech-Jewish writer Arnošt Lustig, and Jindřich Mann, author and grandson of Heinrich Mann, speak with Wolfgang Schwarz (cultural officer for the Czech lands at the Adalbert Stifter Society...
        • German reading: Jaroslav Rudiš
        • Moderates: Wolfgang Schwarz
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        Czechia 2026, debate
        • Czech literary successes on the German-language book market
        • Blatná Dana
          de Bruin Edgar
          Hadas Hana

        • EN
        • Venue:
          Frankfurter Buchmesse - Tschechischer Nationalstand 3.1 / C65
      • Two literary agents share experience of promoting Czech literature on the German-language market over the past three years. In recognition of Czechia’s role as guest of honour, this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair will presen...
        • Moderates: Hana Hadas
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