In the European Union, France and Germany dominate economically, politically, and culturally. In October at the Frankfurt Book Fair, the Franco-German alliance will take center stage when France is the annual guest of honor at the world’s largest publishing industry trade show.
Interviews with Juergen Boos & Holger Volland, Frankfurt Book Fair
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In the European Union, France and Germany dominate economically, politically, and culturally. Indeed, the two nations often act in tandem to demonstrate a clear commitment to the grand project of European unity.
In October at the Frankfurt Book Fair, the Franco-German alliance will take center stage when France is the annual guest of honor at the world’s largest publishing industry trade show.
“France is going to show its literature [and the French] language, not [only] the nation,” says Juergen Boos, president and CEO of the Frankfurt Book Fair. As such, the program is global not national, Boos notes, and “reaches from French-speaking Switzerland to north Africa and to the Caribbean as well.”
For the second year at Frankfurt, The Arts+ program aims to build a community among a wide range of media players who all create or curate content, according to Holger Volland co-founder of The Arts+, a joint venture with media entrepreneur Christiane zu Salm.
For many years, Volland tells CCC’s Chris Kenneally, “what people are trading at the fair is actually content and not books. Books are just one format of that content and how you can trade it. Of course, those stories and those contents can be turned into many, many different formats.”
