diff --git a/doc/api/resources/subevents.rst b/doc/api/resources/subevents.rst
index e308e267ca..9a5d24ab4b 100644
--- a/doc/api/resources/subevents.rst
+++ b/doc/api/resources/subevents.rst
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ date_to                               datetime                   The sub-event's
 date_admission                        datetime                   The sub-event's admission date (or ``null``)
 presale_start                         datetime                   The sub-date at which the ticket shop opens (or ``null``)
 presale_end                           datetime                   The sub-date at which the ticket shop closes (or ``null``)
+frontpage_text                        multi-lingual string       The description of the event (or ``null``)
 location                              multi-lingual string       The sub-event location (or ``null``)
 geo_lat                               float                      Latitude of the location (or ``null``)
 geo_lon                               float                      Longitude of the location (or ``null``)
diff --git a/src/pretix/api/serializers/event.py b/src/pretix/api/serializers/event.py
index 036fb76dce..b3575d584b 100644
--- a/src/pretix/api/serializers/event.py
+++ b/src/pretix/api/serializers/event.py
@@ -409,8 +409,8 @@ class SubEventSerializer(I18nAwareModelSerializer):
         model = SubEvent
         fields = ('id', 'name', 'date_from', 'date_to', 'active', 'date_admission',
                   'presale_start', 'presale_end', 'location', 'geo_lat', 'geo_lon', 'event', 'is_public',
-                  'seating_plan', 'item_price_overrides', 'variation_price_overrides', 'meta_data',
-                  'seat_category_mapping', 'last_modified')
+                  'frontpage_text', 'seating_plan', 'item_price_overrides', 'variation_price_overrides',
+                  'meta_data', 'seat_category_mapping', 'last_modified')
 
     def validate(self, data):
         data = super().validate(data)
diff --git a/src/tests/api/test_subevents.py b/src/tests/api/test_subevents.py
index f7692af915..1c0043fd82 100644
--- a/src/tests/api/test_subevents.py
+++ b/src/tests/api/test_subevents.py
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ TEST_SUBEVENT_RES = {
     'date_to': None,
     'date_admission': None,
     'name': {'en': 'Foobar'},
+    'frontpage_text': None,
     'date_from': '2017-12-27T10:00:00Z',
     'presale_end': None,
     'seating_plan': None,