Frankfurter Buchmesse Restructuring Concludes, 2021 Planning Begins Corporate streamlining and the associated reduction in staffing has been completed, Frankfurt Book Fair reports, and a consultation with 200 exhibitors is helping guide plans for the coming year. On the 2020 Frankfurter Buchmesse ARD Book Fair Stage in Frankfurt’s Festhalle, a discussion with, from left, Andreas Görgen, Giuliano da Empoli, Priya Basil, Juergen Boos, and Geert Mak. Image: FBM, Marc Jacquemin Boos: ‘Responding to This Diversity’ Our readers will recall our report of a week ago detailing the closure of the Frankfurt Book Fair New York office as part of the modernization project Frankfurter Buchmesse has undertaken following the 2020 digital iteration of the trade show.