Culture

  • Kriszta Csák-Nagy
    Mihály Vajda icon painter

    “I paint the face of God because I believe that He became visible” – The icon painter deacon who also painted on Mount Athos

    I enter through the door of a simple, battered family house. In the garden birds chirp, and in the chapel, made out of three...
  • Zsuzsanna Bogos
    a set of Hungarian playing cards

    Why is the Swiss William Tell on the playing-card? – Discovering the secret of the Hungarian deck

    In Hungary everyone is familiar with the so-called Hungarian playing cards, this popular, unique, and historical Hungarian game where the cards, oddly, are decorated...
  • Ádám Lázár
    Magdolna Friedmann and her husband

    Hungarian Women for India – and what they shared: dedication, intellectual strength, and sensitivity to others

    India became an independent country in 1947. Few people know that until the outbreak of World War II, a few self-sacrificing Hungarian women worked...
  • Andrea Csongor
    a chellist

    ”Professional musicians need nerves of steel and the physical condition of an astronaut” – There might be a lot of pain behind musical achievements

    As early as 1959, Zoltán Kodály noticed that there were many health problems among musicians: tendonitis, tennis elbow, golfer’s elbow, spinal disorders, in other...
  • Anita Bojtos
    Painting of Imre Székely composer

    Modest virtuoso and influential educator in the shadow of Franz Liszt – Composer Imre Székely was born 200 years ago

    What do Alexandre Dumas 's salon in Paris, Queen Victoria of Britain, the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, Budapest's oldest music school, the popular children's...
  • Anna Eszter Nyizsnyánszki
    Annie Fischer angling in 1962

    Annie Fischer, the Hungarian Queen of the Piano

    It is 90 years since Annie Fischer won the first prize at the Franz Liszt International Piano Competition at the age of 19, which...
  • Emese Kosztin
    Balázs Szövényi-Lux

    Love is an awakening to yourself

    The most romantic, sensitive man I've ever spoken to, who talks about love in a way that gives you goosebumps. He is passionate, fanatic...
  • Anikó Wéber
    Amália Bezerédj and her book, The Book of Flori

    A mother who wrote the first Hungarian children's book

    Amália Bezerédj wrote the first Hungarian children's book, The Book of Flóri, for her daughter and the kids of the kindergarten-school she founded on...
  • Sára Pataki
    Kati Zsigone with two of her decorated eggs

    "I was the poorest of the poor, and today I am asked for autographs on the street" – Interview with Kati Zsigóné, the "Queen of Egg Decorating"

    Her third major work, the Egg of Our World, has recently been completed, portraying famous people, world-famous buildings, and universal symbols. Newton, Gagarin, Mother...
  • Tamás Velkei
    Balázs Major

    Discovering the largest crusader mural cycle in the Holy Land – Hungarian archeologists are at least as good as their Western colleagues

    By fulfilling his childhood dream, he not only gave his life a purpose, but his work resulted in a university course and institute, too...
  • Ágnes Jónás
    Amrita Shér-Gil in an archive photo

    India’s national treasure was half-Hungarian and lived only 28 years – Indian-Hungarian painter Amrita Shér-Gil was born 110 years ago

    In just six years of her adult life, Hungarian-Indian-born painter Amrita Sher-Gil has created an impressive oeuvre of paintings that is now a national...
  • Sára Pataki
    A group of students of Hungarian origin from South America

    "It’s a bit of a miracle that these communities have kept the language, the culture" – the advent trip of young people of Hungarian origin from South America

    Camila's parents are Hungarian, but she grew up in Argentina. David's mother is Hungarian and his father is Colombian, and while they live not...
  • Adrián Szász dr.
    Ferenc Rófusz in front of the Oscar Statue

    ”Someone from above writes into my script” – Oscar-winner Ferenc Rófusz sent a message with The Fly: we'll get hit on if we buzz too much

    Ferenc Rófusz, the animation filmmaker and creator of the first Oscar-winning Hungarian animation film (The Fly, 1981), recently received the Lifetime Achievement Award at...
  • Adrián Szász dr.
    Robert Capa with his camera

    Robert Capa, the world's best-known war photographer had a passionate desire for peace

    "It's not enough to have talent, you also have to be Hungarian", said Robert Capa, the greatest war reporter in the history of photography...
  • Adrián Szász dr.
    Karolina Sávolt

    "For me, painting comes naturally" – Karolina Sávolt amazes with her magical realism at the age of 12

    Twelve-year-old Karolina Sávolt started painting self-taught two and a half years ago and this year she has already had her own exhibition in Budapest...
  • Zsejke Jámbor-Miniska
    A descendant of the Esterházy Family

    The communists couldn’t wipe out the past for good – Family members from as far as Chicago and London came to the World Meeting of the Esterházys

    "Respect the past to understand the present and to be able to work for the future." - this is the motto of the World...
  • Médea Wilcsek
    Cynthia Berényi with her book

    ”From revolution to pandemic - writing can heal multigenerational traumas,” states Cynthia Berenyi, the Canadian-Hungarian writer

    ”I didn’t even know who I was anymore, but I knew that was what I needed to find out. I was ready. I was...