Six water tour ideas – Discover Hungary from the water
If you've ever sat in a canoe, kayak, or stood on a SUP board, you've probably noticed how different the world is from the...
Sára Pataki
Learning a new language at the age of 92 – Kató Lomb, one of the world's first simultaneous interpreters
She struggled with German as a child, but a few decades later, a Russian-English dictionary she found in a resale shop sealed her fate...
Krisztián Pomichal
”Like the slave market in the colonies” – Gyula Patasy’s vivid memories of the deportation
If you are lucky enough to live for seven or eight decades, you are bound to suffer the inevitable consequences of history. Among the...
Sára Pataki
Tibor Baranski – The “Hungarian Schindler”, who saved thousands of Jews from death
During the Second World War and the Holocaust, in Budapest, a 22-year-old Catholic priest student saved thousands of Jewish women, children, and men from...
Tamás Velkei
“I enjoy being a monk because I have dedicated my life to the one I love and who loves me.”
What makes someone want to become a Pauline monk? What is necessary to choose this vocation? Can a monk be in love? What do...
Henrietta Vadas
“I saw my child lying on a table, covered with a sheet” – The story of Flóra Béry-Januskó and her little son with SMA
"As a senior in high school, I was diagnosed with a gynecological condition that gave me very little chance of ever getting pregnant naturally...
Adrián Szász dr.
"It's hard to pay attention to your surroundings when you have The Terminator standing next to you” – We talked to Schwarzenegger's Hungarian bodyguard
He was bullied as a child and enrolled in martial arts at the age of 14 to protect himself later in life. And -...
Médea Wilcsek
”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...
Zsejke Jámbor-Miniska
”Hungarian artists are taken seriously abroad, too” – Miranda Liu, one of the world's youngest concertmasters
Miranda Liu is no ordinary person. As well as becoming Concerto Budapest's concertmaster in 2016 at the age of 19, she is a violinist...
Anna Petz
Mickey Hargitay: muscle man who married a sex bomb – Hungarians in Hollywood 8.
From acrobat apprentice to immigrant, he became a widely recognized legend of bodybuilding. Mickey Hargitay, from a poor family in Kőbánya, was an exemplary...
Anna Petz
Let the family discover the city together! – ‘Budapest with Kids’ map published
Cool, shaded parks, tucked-away bookshops, family-friendly confectionery shops and cultural hubs exciting for children as well. The ‘Budapest with Kids’ map published in early...
Fanni Fekete
„I share the hopes and concerns regarding migration” – Exclusive interview with composer José Cura
José Cura composer-conductor-tenor's first own opera will be performed at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest. The „Montezuma and the Red Priest...
Nóra Streit
120 volunteers working for children – InDaHouse in Hernádszentandrás
Hernádszentandrás is a village with a population of barely 400 located in the Hernád Valley, where schoolchildren starting the year are greeted not only...
Lívia Kölnei
“What else is worth investing in but the children of the future?” – In conversation with Katalin Novák
At the turning point of the Old and New Year, we talked with an energetic politician who thinks in broad social perspectives while at...
Szilvia Németh
Dr. Dóra Vesztergom: “The ovaries cannot be botoxed”
Warning! The following interview contains phrases that are likely to disturb the peace, with intent. We aim to sound the alarm bell and make...
Ildikó Antal-Ferencz
“A normal birth does not require medical intervention” – in conversation with obstetrician-gynaecologist Balázs Bálint
Balázs Bálint is one of the most popular Hungarian obstetricians. Expectant mothers queue up for him. He continues – as a legacy of his...