Berliner Bücherfest 2025

“With more than 100 publishing and bookshop stands and a varied program of events, the festival invites people of all generations, avid and lazy readers, the curious and tourists to celebrate the diversity of Berlin’s book industry. This year’s main theme, “How do we want to live?”, focuses on democracy, freedom of expression, exchange and future prospects. “The world as we know it no longer exists. Previous certainties in the environment, economy, politics and society are crumbling and democracies are coming under pressure. At the same time, our window to the future is open like never before. With its program, the Berlin Book Festival invites us to take a closer look, to rethink and to dream – for a world of tomorrow,” says Miriam Gabriela Möllers, Managing Director of the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels Landesverband Berlin Brandenburg e.V. (German Publishers and Booksellers Association). …” (Text 2025, Translated with the free version of www.deepl.com/translator)