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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
  • Ondřej Buddeus
    • Ondřej Buddeus: Fahr Rad!
    • Buddeus Ondřej

    • Venue:
      Frankfurter Buchmesse - Raum Illusion (CMF)
  • Czech author Ondřej Buddeus will present his book Fahr Rad! at the Frankfurt Book Fair in German translation. Raum Illusion (CMF)
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      Czechia 2026, debate
      • Books in search of readers: writing for children and young adults in an age of distraction
      • Böhmisch Astrid
        Matocha Vojtěch
        Procházková Iva

      • CZ / DE
      • Venue:
        Frankfurter Buchmesse - Czechia 2026 Pavilion - Shore Stage
    • How can we engage a younger generation of readers, and what role do authors, publishers and libraries play in this? In Germany, one in four children is not read to by their parents, and one in five people struggle t...
      • Moderates: Tino Dallmann
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      Czechia 2026, reading
    • CZ / DE
      • Czechs and Germans living together
      • Venue:
        Frankfurter Buchmesse - Czechia 2026 Pavilion - Harbour Stage
    • Over the past two decades, Czech fiction has been much engaged with the topic of the past coexistence of Czechs and Germans and its tragic severance. Štěpán Kučera and Alice Horáčková are among those contemporary authors...
      • German reading: Verena Noll
      • Moderates: Philipp Ther
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      Czechia 2026, debate
      • What do authors want from their writing?
      • Ambrožová Dorota
        Zbořil Jonáš
        Zeithammerová Sára

      • CZ / DE
      • Venue:
        Frankfurter Buchmesse - Tschechischer Nationalstand 3.1 / C65
    • Is the literary theme of adolescence inexhaustible? What are the expectations of emerging Czech writers, the conditions in which they find themselves, and the stereotypes they have to deal with? Novels by Dorota Ambrožov...
      • Moderates: Jonáš Zbořil
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      Czechia 2026, debate
      • The Czech-German Future Fund presents: Off the beaten track – German authors in Czechia in search of new themes
      • Hermann Judith
        Sander Gregor

      • DE
      • Venue:
        Frankfurter Buchmesse - Czechia 2026 Pavilion - Shore Stage
    • What are German writers discovering off the beaten track in Czechia? Two leading German writers, whose books are known to Czech readers, talk about new ideas, fresh impressions and the inspiration from Czech-German dialo...
      • Moderates: Sabine Borovanská, Martin Hudec
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      Czechia 2026, presentation
    • CZ / DE
    • Jáchym Topol
      • HAVEL at 90: I Hid It Somewhere
      • Topol Jáchym

      • Venue:
        Frankfurter Buchmesse - Czechia 2026 Pavilion - Harbour Stage
    • A conversation with Jáchym Topol, writer and former programme director of the Václav Havel Library, on the book Václav Havel: I Hid It Somewhere. At the heart of this volume is Havel’s posthumously published es...
      • Moderates: Tilman Spreckelsen
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      reading
    • DE
      • Buchpräsentation "Fritz Seemann. Wir sind hier in einer Mausefalle."
      • Kraus Annette
        Skriebeleit Jörg

      • Venue:
        Stand des Deutsch-Tschechischen Zukunftsfonds, Halle 3.1 C74
    • Buchpräsentation "Fritz Seemann. Wir sind hier in einer Mausefalle. Ein Journalist beim Prager Tagblatt und seine gescheiterte Flucht aus der Tschechoslowakei" Die Autorin Annette Kraus wird zusammen mit dem Mitherausgeb...
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        book signing
      • CZ / DE
      • Jiří Dvořák
        • Meet the Czech Author Jiří Dvořák – Signierstunde zu MYKO
        • Dvořák Jiří

        • Venue:
          Meet the Czech Author Jiří Dvořák – Signierstunde zu MYKO
      • Pilze sind weder Pflanze noch Tier, sondern ein eigenes Reich. Genau davon erzählt MYKO: das Buch von Pilzen, für Pilze und über Pilze. Jiří Dvořák ist zu Besuch am Ankerwechsel Stand und signiert eine Stunde lang die de...
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          Czechia 2026, presentation
        • DE
          • Milan Kundera Library: a vibrant centre for literature, education and international dialogue three years in the making
          • Pavelková Jindra

          • Venue:
            Frankfurter Buchmesse - Tschechischer Nationalstand 3.1 / C65
        • The library was established with an ambitious vision: to serve not only to preserve unique materials relating to one of the 20th century’s most important writers but also as a vibrant space for reading, interpretati...
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            Czechia 2026, debate
          • CZ / EN
            • “And what do those close to you think?”: the self in comics
            • Venue:
              Frankfurter Buchmesse - Czechia 2026 Pavilion - Shore Stage
          • An autobiographical comic book can cause upset. Its images are the responsibility of its creator, who must stand by them before a readership, critics and themselves. And where do “others” come in? As none of us is a...
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              Czechia 2026, reading
            • EN / DE
              • Kafka one hundred years on, and the Kafka in us
              • Platzová Magdaléna
                Říhová Zuzana

              • Venue:
                Frankfurter Buchmesse - Czechia 2026 Pavilion - Harbour Stage
            • We commemorated the centenary of Franz Kafka’s birth in 2024. So many years later, how far are we able to continue in the tradition of Kafkaesque absurdity, known to Czechs as “kafkárna”? How open to interpretation is Ka...
              • German reading: Steffi Böttger
              • Moderates: Lucie Campos
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              Czechia 2026, debate
              • Silent Books – Loud Stories
              • Bartolj Marta
                Trchová Martina

              • CZ / EN
              • Venue:
                Frankfurter Buchmesse - Tschechischer Nationalstand 3.1 / C65
            • Storytelling by means of pictures only is as old as humanity itself. Stories were told in sequences of drawings on the walls of prehistoric caves. In recent years, we have been rediscovering the power of the purely visua...
              • Moderates: Renáta Fučíková
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