Life

  • 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...
  • Kinga Halász
    Ágnes Szabó-Keresztes, creator of the Lantern on the Road guesthouse, with her family

    Moving to the countryside, a family’s mission in the Vértes mountains – “On a hill, in the dark, the little house is like a lantern”

    A couple with young children gave up their life in the capital and found a new home and a new job a few years...
  • Barbara Schuster
    Ferenc Marlok in his workshop

    Shaping body and soul – Ferenc Marlok makes scoliosis braces for teenagers

    Ferenc Marlok is a master medical equipment technician who designs and produces custom-made plastic back braces for children with scoliosis. At first, the teenagers...
  • Tamás Velkei
    Volunteer hairdresser giving a haircut to a Ukranian refugee boy

    ”Sometimes you want to look pretty, I’m happy now” – Volunteer hairdressers make new hairdos for Ukrainian refugees

    We received an invitation to a special event: the Hungarian Reformed Church Aid turned its office in Erzsébetváros, Budapest into a hairdressing salon for...
  • Adrián Szász dr.
    Annamária Győrfi and Zsuzsa Győrfi Lászlóné, shepherdesses from Darassa

    Never before have so many herderesses gathered in Hungary! – “It's not merely a struggle, the way we live, but it's wonderful, too!"

    "They are indispensable in everything, helping us fully in the family, in the household, and with the animals. This way of life can only...
  • Sára Pataki
    Dániel Nagy at the EuroSkills Competition is Gdansk, Poland

    Europe’s best at joinery at 23 – “There must be no space between two wooden elements, not even for a sheet of paper”

    He made garden benches as a child and recently became European champion in joinery at the age of 23. Despite his young age, Dániel...
  • Lívia Kölnei
    Zsolt Rancz in front of a bookcase with his books on

    ”It’s Easy For You, ’Cause You’ve a Company” – A cool designer in Transylvania: Zsolt Rancz and the Wameleon Design

    ”Are you a rockstar designer? Has drawing always been your thing? Are you a good problemsolver? Do you love challenges? Can you master Adobe...
  • Lívia Kölnei
    Ildikó Bálint

    "As soon as you enter, time freezes and you find yourself back in your childhood" – Selfieteria in Szabadka: a playground for adults

    She makes other people's dreams come true while realizing her childhood dream. Ildikó Bálint , the founder and creator of the Selfieteria, Selfie Museum...
  • Zsejke Jámbor-Miniska
    The owners of Kiscsikó restaurant, Ildikó and Róbert Puskás with their daughter

    The love of the whole team is in every dish – the Kiscsikó restaurant in Transcarpathia is open even in wartime

    The phone number starts with +38. This is Ukraine. The neighbouring country where there has been a war for two years now and which...
  • Sára Pataki
    Márton Offner

    "I could really be present mentally" – Márton Offner from Zalaegerszeg is Europe's best plumbing and heating technician

    Only 21 years old, but he won the EuroSkills Competition this year. He almost resigned for the silver medal, but in the end, he...
  • Lívia Kölnei
    A painting of Ignác Semmelweis in 1857, aged 39, at the time of his wedding

    One semi-true and one false myth about Ignác Semmelweis

    Dr. Ignác Semmelweis , perhaps the world's best-known Hungarian doctor, was born into a German family in Buda in 1818 and died in a...
  • Adrián Szász dr.
    Liberty Square in Budapest in 1912 on a postcard

    A big New Year's Eve bank robbery in Pest – the action of three petty criminals ended in a tragic bloodbath

    In 1903, at the age of 23, Géza Schäffer was employed by the Hungarian Commercial Bank of Pest, and ten years later he experienced...
  • Samu Csinta
    Gregor Roy Chowdhury

    The movie-like story of a Hindu-Hungarian aristocratic family and their Transylvanian heritage

    People call him Count Gergely; Gregor Roy Chowdhury-Mikes , the majority shareholder of the Secuiana, an apparel manufactory in Kézdivásárhely (Târgu Secuiesc), Romania, has...
  • Sára Pataki
    János Hidvégi working at his computer at the EuroSkills Competition

    European champion Hungarian web developer says his profession is where art and engineering meet

    He first got into programming when he was ten years old and had barely started high school before he developed his own web application...
  • Adrián Szász dr.
    Antal Frank

    Bringanti puts even those on special bikes that others have given up on – "The morning wind touched him again, he saw the birds, the trees, the colours"

    He creates bikes for people with special needs – disabled, injured, elderly, or otherwise challenged - but who are enthusiastic and know no limits...
  • 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...
  • Lívia Kölnei
    Kálmán Varga and his garden steam engine

    A creative engineer made his childhood dream come true and rides his own steam locomotive in his garden

    "I was about ten years old when I saw that there was a machine blowing smoke in one of the backyards in our street...