“Now, Andrea, you won’t have any more children, will you?" - Risk, Adventure and Challenge with 11 kids
With ten siblings, you have to fight for attention as well as a good seat in the minibus. But you're never bored, and there's...
Lilla Zeke
"The Hungarian scientist who received the Nobel Prize" – Ferenc Krausz in service of humanity
"From the podium, it's hard to tell who will win a Nobel Prize, but you can see who is ambitious. Ferenc Krausz was one...
Andrea Csongor
“How come we haven't noticed this before?” – was asked from Katalin Karikó, who in turn discovered it and received the Nobel Prize
The question was asked at a party by a scientist who had earlier repeatedly criticized Katalin Karikó , the Hungarian biochemist who has just...
Henrietta Vadas
“As a maid, I knew every nook and cranny of the Habsburg castle in Alcsút” – the story of 98-year-old Sári néni
Sára Komárominé Vojna, or Sári néni , was born on 1 November 1925 in Alcsút, where she grew up as the fourth child in...
Pál Horváth
The person who founded a self-governing children’s society – the story of Gábor Sztehlo
Even today, Géza Radványi’s moving classic of post Second World War Hungarian filmmaking, Valahol Európában (Somewhere in Europe, 1947), is a popular movie. It’s...
Ágnes Jónás
“Making music is like pearl fishing: we reveal the pearls to the audience” – Flautett Flute Quartet
Their collective soul is woven from song, they are cheerful, dedicated and they understand each other almost without the need for words. They are...
Pál Horváth
Albert Apponyi: nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize five times
“For Hungary, choosing between accepting the peace treaty or refusing to sign it would be tantamount to having to ask itself if it should...
Zsejke Jámbor-Miniska
There is no prostitution without coercion
Research indicates that people are more vulnerable to prostitution in the current crisis caused by the virus as they are in times of natural...
Szilvia Németh
Miklós Papp: the mid-life ‘crisis’ is the natural path to maturity and development
Previously referred to as midlife panic, it was basically identified with the behavior of men in their fifties flanging with a young girlfriend. Fortunately...
Vince Tompos
On the threshold of another world – The Last Homely House Foundation
This year, the Foundation Völgyzugolyház Alapítvány a Kacifántosokért (the name ‘Völgyzugoly’ comes from J.R.R. Tolkien and means the ‘last homely house’, or ‘elven fortress’)...
Ildikó Antal-Ferencz
The family-friendly head of a family-friendly hospital – In conversation with Dr. György Velkey
This was not my first interview with Dr. György Velkey, and yet I was still consumed with curiosity: would we be able to have...