Today in Rhein-Main: What the fair deserves

Good evening,

with the Frankfurt Exhibition Center it's like a game of dominoes, only not so funny.

If she is doing well, then, because of the visitors, hotels, retail and gastronomy also benefit.

If she is doing badly, many suffer.

The 2021 trade fair: That was, it was reported on Tuesday, fewer exhibitions, fewer visitors, less sales.

Less than 2020 mind you.

Trade fair boss Wolfgang Marzin, who in 2020 had to announce a loss for the first time after many record results, had not expected this.

But the pandemic, which does not seem to be getting under control, has dashed hopes for improvement and has largely deprived the already battered industry of its business foundation.

The number of Messe Frankfurt events has fallen from 150 last year to around 70 - since trade fairs are still planned for the next few weeks in Asia, among others, the final number has not yet been determined.

For this reason, other numbers are still vague.

But, shockingly clear: the turnover, which in 2020 was 257 million euros and thus only around a third of the level of 2019, will amount to around 140 million euros for 2021.

Patricia Andreae reports and comments.

Jacqueline Vogt

Editor in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung, responsible for the Rhein-Main section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung.

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A small quake in the literary world: the Frankfurt publishing house Schöffling & Co. will become part of the Zurich Kampa publishing house on January 1, 2022.

Schöffling & Co. will keep their headquarters in Frankfurt, announced the publisher on Tuesday, and all employees will continue their work.

The authors' contracts and the focus on contemporary German-language literature have also been preserved.

Klaus Schöffling founded the publishing house in 1993 together with his wife Ida. Schöffling has been publishing the “Yearbook of Poetry” since 2017, and since 2019 the books by Peter kurzck, which were published by Stroemfeld during his lifetime, and works from his estate. The association "Frankfurt reads a book" founded by Schöffling has held the reading festival of the same name since 2010. Klaus Schöffling's rediscoveries such as Valentin Senger's “Kaiserhofstrasse 12” or the novels Gabriele Tergit shaped the festival and the publishing program. The future of the reading festival, which is closely linked to Schöffling's willingness to bring out the book for the festival every two years, should interest many in Frankfurt, writes Florian Balke in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung and also that Schöffling & Co. I have been asking a question of succession for some time.

For the traffic turnaround, not only are cycle paths needed in Frankfurt, but also paths into the city that do not require the use of a car. From the east of the Rhine-Main area, for example, which has been rather neglected in the expansion of rail and S-Bahn lines in recent years. Something can change about that in the medium term: The planning for the expansion of the Niddertal Railway is in place. The 30-kilometer stretch from Frankfurt through the Main-Kinzig district to Wetterau will be electrified throughout. The previously single-lane line will also have a second track on two sections, each five kilometers in length. This allows oncoming trains to avoid each other. The planners at DB Netz AG, a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn, presented these plans to the municipalities along the route.The expansion also includes new bridges and barriers for previously unrestricted level crossings. The expansion of the railway line should be completed by 2027, it said on Tuesday. The state has promised to bear planning costs of almost twelve million euros.

And, according to the Hessian Ministry of Transport, the federal, state and local authorities plan to invest around 85 million in cycle paths next year, ten million more than this year +++ will be received by the philosopher and social scientist Lisa Herzog, director of the Center for Philosophy, Politics and Economics of the University of Groningen awarded the Schader Prize 2022, endowed with 15,000 euros, from the Darmstadt Foundation +++ of the same name, the police in Rüsselsheim confiscated blank vaccination cards in a shisha bar.

Have a nice evening, stay with us

Jacqueline Vogt

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Wednesday December 8th

Christiane Schmahl

(The Greens), from 2015 to May 2021 first district councilor in the district of Gießen (61);

, managing partner of the music publisher Breitkopf & Härtel KG, Wiesbaden (45).