Zajas, Pawel2025-07-142024Paweł Zajas (2024) Literatur Als Kulturpolitisches Medium: Länderschwerpunkte der Frankfurter Buchmesse und das Auswärtige Amt, Oxford German Studies, 53:4, 563-583, DOI: 10.1080/00787191.2024.2407599.0078-7191 (print)1745-9214 (online)10.1080/00787191.2024.2407599http://hdl.handle.net/2263/103343The article focuses on the Federal Foreign Office’s participation in the conceptual preparation and implementation of the foci of interest of the Frankfurt International Book Fair. The argument proceeds in three steps. First, it is claimed that the very first focus of interest on Latin American literature (1976) goes back to the 1960s when in originated in long-term goals of German development policy. Secondly, the article documents the conflicts between the Foreign Office and the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (IfA) during the preparation of the Latin America Colloquium (1976). Thirdly, the connection between the federal government’s development policy and the focal topic ‘Africa asserts its identity’ is put under scrutiny.de© 2024 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an electronic version of an article published in Oxford German Studies, vol. 53, no. 4, pp. 563-583, 2024. doi : 10.1080/00787191.2024.2407599. Oxford German Studies is available online at :https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/yogs20.Frankfurt international book fairGuests of honourGerman foreign cultural policyHeteronomy of autonomy in the publishing fieldPostprint Article