Wednesday
12.August2026
Nothing for you? How about a play, a museum visit, a concert, or a trip to the cinema instead?
Public lectures & discussions in Frankfurt today.
Wednesday
Nothing for you? How about a play, a museum visit, a concert, or a trip to the cinema instead?
Currently 72 Frankfurt institutions: Universitätsklinikum Frankfurt, Goethe-Uni Bürgeruniversität, Evangelische Akademie Frankfurt, Literaturhaus Frankfurt, Frankfurter Sparkasse Engagement, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Hessen, Instituto Cervantes Frankfurt, Historisches Museum Frankfurt, Bansamühle, Denkbar Frankfurt, Gamedev-Treff Rhein-Main, Institut für Sozialforschung Frankfurt, Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Die Käs, Forschungsverbund Normative Ordnungen, Haus am Dom – Kath. Akademie Rabanus Maurus, Jüdische Gemeinde Frankfurt, Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik, Senckenberg Naturmuseum, Union International Club Frankfurt, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Krankenhaus Nordwest, SAIGE Frankfurt, Stadtbücherei Frankfurt, Autorenbuchhandlung Marx, Deutsch-Französische Gesellschaft Frankfurt, HSFK / PRIF Frankfurt, Klingspor Museum, Senckenberg Arthur-von-Weinberg-Haus, Archäologisches Museum Frankfurt, Brotfabrik, Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, Paulskirche, Sigmund-Freud-Institut Frankfurt, AI Meetup Frankfurt, andré stocker design, basis, Circle Cube, Claude Meetup Frankfurt, Deutsch-Israelische Gesellschaft Frankfurt, Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM), DZ BANK Kunststiftung, Fachzentrum Trauerseelsorge St. Michael, FGZ StreitClub, Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften (Bad Homburg), Freilichtmuseum Hessenpark, Georg-Voigt-Straße 14, Green Software Development Frankfurt, Haus am Dom – Frankfurt, Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt, Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt, Jugendherberge Sachsenhausen, Karlsplatz, Kulturpavillon Friedhof Fechenheim, Marktplatz Oberursel, mayhaus, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Parfümerie Frankfurt, Polytechnische Gesellschaft Frankfurt, Rathaus Bad Soden, Romanfabrik Frankfurt, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Hessen, Salon Schlitz, Städel Museum, Stadthaus Frankfurt, Tagesaufenthalt Bärenstraße, Theodor-W-Adorno Platz 1, Volksbühne im Großen Hirschgraben, WDC-Hub im Museum Angewandte Kunst, Weißfrauen Diakoniekirche Frankfurt and Weltkulturen Bibliothek. In addition, lecture-format events are cross-imported from the sister sites museumsufer.app and ins.theater.
"Lecture" means a monologic contribution — one person addresses the audience (research talk, academic address, public lecture). "Reading" means literary formats — authors reading from their work, book launches, Buchmesse events. "Discussion" means dialogic formats with multiple voices — panels, debates, roundtables. The classification is automatic from the announcement; in edge cases, the description tips the balance.
Data is scraped several times a day directly from venue websites. Cancellations or programme changes usually surface within a few hours.
Many of them — university talks, Polytechnische lectures, many academy evenings. Others ask for a small contribution or registration. The note is shown on each entry; if in doubt, check the venue's detail page.
Frankfurt has an unusually dense public-lecture and discussion culture — from the university's citizens' programme through ecclesial academies to independent salons and foundations. But no shared programme. This site lays every house onto one searchable day view.
Via the "Subscribe" button in the header or footer. Three time slots are available: morning (07:00), afternoon (16:00), and a weekly Sunday overview (09:00). Notifications can optionally be restricted to one format (lecture or discussion). Sign-up is anonymous — no account, no email — and can be cancelled at any time. On iOS, the site must first be added to the home screen as a web app.