About Frizz Frankfurt

Frizz Frankfurt

Frizz Frankfurt is the Frankfurt edition of FRIZZ Das Magazin, the German city-magazine network published by the lilium Verlag in Frankfurt am Main. The monthly magazine covers the city's culture, gastronomy, nightlife, shopping and events, distributed free through more than 400 outlets – from high-traffic retail and restaurants to scene gastronomy, event organizers, ticket shops, cinemas, sports and leisure facilities and educational institutions. With its 2026 schedule publishing monthly issues, FRIZZ Frankfurt serves the Rhein-Main metropolis's leisure and cultural life – the free monthly that belongs to the city.

Overview

Frizz Frankfurt is part of FRIZZ Das Magazin, a city-magazine network of 15 individual regional editions (formerly FRITZ), roughly half of them IVW-verified, with a combined circulation of around 320,000 copies. The magazines appear monthly and are free of charge. The Frankfurt edition is published by the lilium Verlag at Varrentrappstrasse 53, 60486 Frankfurt am Main.

The editorial concept combines a city-specific magazine section with special topics and a comprehensive event calendar for party, music, film, culture and entertainment on site. Distribution is target-group-oriented through retail, gastronomy, cinemas, music clubs, stage and theater venues – the places where Frankfurt's culturally active audience gathers. The 222-millimeter-wide magazine format, with its advertising rate card ranging from eighth-page to full-page and premium positions on the covers, documents the publication's professional production standards – the free monthly as a fully realized advertising medium.

The Frankfurt edition serves the Rhein-Main region's metropolitan audience: the young, culturally interested readers who shape the city's nightlife, gastronomy and cultural scene. The magazine's tone is urban and contemporary – the voice of a city that sees itself as Germany's most international metropolis, home to the European Central Bank, the stock exchange and a population in which more than half have a migration background.

The magazine also covers the Offenbach, Hanau and surrounding region, reflecting the metropolitan area's interconnected leisure landscape: FRIZZ Das Magazin für Offenbach, Hanau & Umgebung shares the Frankfurt editorial infrastructure while addressing the eastern metropolitan area's distinct audience – the cities and districts around Frankfurt that form part of the region's cultural and gastronomic life. The Offenbach/Hanau edition is published under the lilium Verlag's imprint as well, with its own media data, its own distribution network and its own event calendar.

History

The FRIZZ network – formerly FRITZ – has been one of Germany's city-magazine networks for years, with 15 regional editions covering cities from Dresden to Freiburg, Halle to Karlsruhe, Leipzig to Mainz and Wiesbaden. The Frankfurt edition, published by the lilium Verlag, has been part of this network, serving the Rhein-Main metropolis with its monthly city magazine.

The 2026 publishing schedule documents the magazine's monthly production rhythm: issues appearing at month's end – January through December, each with its advertising deadline and print-submission date – the regular cycle of a free monthly that must reach its 400-plus distribution points on time, every month. The February issue's advertising deadline falls in late January, the March issue's in mid-February – the lead times that structure the advertising business of a monthly city magazine. The 2026 media data, published as a PDF on the magazine's website, detail the advertising formats, prices and distribution for the year.

The Frankfurt edition has developed its own regional identity within the network: while sharing the FRIZZ brand and editorial concept, it addresses the specific character of the Frankfurt metropolitan area – the banking metropolis with its village-like neighborhoods, its international population, its vibrant cultural scene from the Museumsufer to the Bahnhofsviertel, its festival culture and its gastronomy. The magazine's coverage reflects a city that is simultaneously a global financial center and a collection of distinct districts – the tension between the skyline and the neighborhood that defines Frankfurt's urban identity and that the city magazine chronicles month after month.

The Offenbach and Hanau regional edition extends the FRIZZ presence into the eastern metropolitan area, with its own distribution network of over 400 outlets and its own event calendar for the region's cultural life – the sister publication that completes the Frankfurt metropolitan area's FRIZZ coverage.

Content and Sections

The editorial program of Frizz Frankfurt follows the city-magazine formula. The magazine section covers Frankfurt's cultural and urban life: features on the city's neighborhoods, portraits of local figures – chefs, artists, entrepreneurs, cultural organizers – reports on cultural developments, gastronomy features and the topics that move the city – the journalism that helps readers discover their metropolis anew

Special topics provide the editorial deep-dives: themed issues on festivals, shopping, heritage, vintage and craftsmanship. The Frankfurt Secret festival coverage – vintage, heritage and craftsmanship in the heart of Frankfurt, with exhibitors from pipe-makers to flight-jacket painters, supported by the city's economic development department and media-partnered by FRIZZ Das Magazin Frankfurt – exemplifies the magazine's role as the city's cultural chronicler and event partner.

The event calendar is the magazine's service core: comprehensive listings for party, music, film, culture and entertainment in Frankfurt – the guide that tells readers what's on, where and when. From concerts at the Festhalle to club nights in the city's electronic-music venues, from theater premieres to the Mainova Frankfurt Marathon – the 43rd edition in October 2026, with its tens of thousands of runners and the spectacular finish on the red carpet of the Festhalle – the calendar covers the city's full leisure spectrum.

The Offenbach and Hanau regional edition extends this coverage to the eastern metropolitan area, with its own distribution network of over 400 outlets – from the city and district of Offenbach to Hanau and the surrounding communities of Gelnhausen, Bruchköbel, Maintal, Mühlheim, Neu-Isenburg, Dreieich and Langen – and its own event calendar for the region's cultural life.

Publisher and Organization

Frizz Frankfurt is published by the lilium Verlag, Varrentrappstrasse 53, 60486 Frankfurt am Main – the publishing house behind the Frankfurt edition of the FRIZZ network. The magazine appears monthly and is distributed free across the metropolitan area. Media data for 2026 are published on the magazine's website, documenting advertising formats, prices and the distribution network. Specific editor-in-chief details are not publicly confirmed in the sources consulted.

Digital Presence

The digital home of Frizz Frankfurt is frizz-frankfurt.de, the portal that extends the monthly magazine into daily online journalism and carries the FRIZZ brand's familiar voice into the always-current format of the web. The site publishes magazine articles, event previews, shopping features and cultural news, serving the readers' daily information needs between monthly issues – the digital daily to the print monthly, carrying the FRIZZ brand's familiar voice into the always-current format of the web.

The Frankfurt edition's digital presence is complemented by the Offenbach and Hanau regional portals – frizzoffenbach.de and frizzhanau.de – and by the magazine's Instagram presence, which carries the FRIZZ brand into the social media channels where Frankfurt's young audience discovers its city's culture. The 2026 media data and publishing schedule are published on the site, documenting the magazine's monthly production rhythm from advertising deadlines to print delivery.

With its monthly rhythm, free distribution through hundreds of outlets, its position in the 15-edition FRIZZ network and its lilium Verlag publishing base, Frizz Frankfurt remains the Frankfurt metropolitan area's city magazine – the monthly guide to the metropolis's culture, gastronomy, nightlife and events, from the Museumsufer to the Bahnhofsviertel, from the Offenbach sister edition to the daily online update, from the monthly issue to the daily click.