After the dismissal of director Lorenzo Rudolph, who was thought to be moving the Frankfurt Book Fair in too many directions at once (News, July 15), and with another fair only a couple of months off, Frankfurt management has named Volker Neumann to be Rudolph's successor. The new director was until recently a top Bertelsmann executive, who, in addition to presiding over the Gütersloh group's long roster of trade imprints, had been watching over the fair as a member of the supervisory board of the Exhibitions and Fair Agency, a subsidiary of the Börsenverein, the combined German publishers/distributors/booksellers association.
Pending Neumann's take-over, scheduled for September 2, the fair organization will be in the care of Harald Heker, the Börsenverein's secretary general.
