OPEN BOOKS 2025 – Opening event with the Blue Sofa
Book Fair
begin 14.10.2025, 20:00
end 14.10.2025, 21:30
location Frankfurt am Main
To mark the Frankfurt Book Fair, the OPEN BOOKS reading festival will once again present the major new publications of the literary autumn. The city's reading festival is traditionally launched at the German National Library in conjunction with the Blue Sofa, the Bertelsmann authors' forum. This year's guests are author Katerina Poladjan with her novel “Goldstrand“ (S. Fischer), journalist and author Natalie Amiri with her book “Der Nahost-Komplex“ (Penguin), author and dramatist Kaleb Erdmann with his novel “Die Ausweichschule“ (park x ullstein) as well as the winner of the 2025 German Book Prize, announced on the previous Monday.
Natalie Amiri, Photo: Johannes Moths
Katerina Poladjan, Photo: Francesco Gattoni
Kaleb Erdmann, Photo: Jakob Kielgass
All information about OPEN BOOKS can be found at www.openbooks-frankfurt.de
This event is organised by the Frankfurt am Mains Department of Culture (Kulturamt), in cooperation with Bertelsmann and the German National Library.
Information and contact
The event will be held in German.
Venue: Lecture hall, German National Library in Frankfurt am Main
Costs: 15,00 Euro / concessions 10,00 Euro
Duration: 90 minutes
Booking: Tickets available from mid-September at www.openbooks-frankfurt.de
Cloakroom info: Please leave your coats, jackets and bags in the cloakroom. You can also use our lockers, for which you will need two two-euro coins. Instead of two-euro coins, you can also use tokens, which can be purchased at our automatic pay station using a debit or credit card. A combination of two-euro coins and tokens is also possible.
Accessibility: The area in which the event will be taking place is barrier-free accessible.
Contact: veranstaltungen@dnb.de
Address and getting here
German National Library
Adickesallee 1
60322 Frankfurt am Main
Getting here
We advise you to use public transport.
1 / By public transport
By rail
From the main railway station (underground level), take the U5 in the direction of Preungesheim and get off at the stop “Deutsche Nationalbibliothek”. Journey time approx. 10 minutes.
By plane
From the airport (regional station), take S-Bahn S8 in the direction of Hanau or the S9 in the direction of Offenbach and get off at “Konstablerwache”. Change to the U5 in the direction of Preungesheim and get off at the stop “Deutsche Nationalbibliothek”. Journey time approx. 30 minutes.
By bus
The “Deutsche Nationalbibliothek” bus stop is served by the number M32 bus.
2 / By bike
The German National Library in Frankfurt am Main can easily be reached by bike. You can get to the DNB by taking the cycle paths on Adickesallee, Nibelungenallee, and Eckenheimer Landtraße.
Covered bicycle racks are located right at the main entrance.
3 / By car
The address for navigation devices is Eckenheimer Landstraße 165. The building is accessed from the underground car park. The maximum entrance height is 2.0 m.
Approaching from the west
Take the A66 to the end of the autobahn in Miquelallee and follow the signs for Fulda/Hanau; at the third intersection, turn right into Eckenheimer Landstraße in the direction of the city centre; follow the signs and turn right into the underground car park.
Approaching from the north
Take the A661 to the Eckenheim exit, get into the lane for the city centre/Eckenheim, continue straight on to the third major set of traffic lights and cross these. The entrance to the underground car park is located at the German National Library building around 100 metres further on the right.
Parking
Our car park has 100 parking spaces for visitors on the first basement floor.
Opening hours: Monday to Friday 6:00 to 22:00, Saturday 8:00 to 18:00.
Fees: 2.00 Euro/hour, cash or card payment.
The permanent rental of parking spaces is not possible.
For on-street parking spaces in the Holzhausenviertel district, the City of Frankfurt of Main charges 50 cents per quarter hour or part thereof from Monday to Friday between 7:00 and 19:00.
4 / Accessibility
The German National Library in Frankfurt am Main has designated disabled parking spaces in its car park and next to the building in Schlosserstraße. The Library's public rooms can be accessed by lift from the underground car park. Barrier-free access to the main entrance is also available from Schlosserstraße.
Last changes:
26.08.2025
