Sugar bell, sugar stamp, sugar room – Marzipan Land, the empire of the Oscar-winning Lajos Kopcsik
It’s not only the taste of sweets that you can enjoy, but also the sight of them. This is especially true when someone uses...
Ágnes Bodonovich
“I was an altar boy in the morning and a thief in the afternoon” – The testimony of a Franciscan monk
The life of Franciscan monk Mihály Zillich - or as everyone calls him, Brother Misi - is a good example of how God is...
Ágnes Bodonovich
"No arms, but I’ve received many other things from God"
Born without arms, Borbála Ivicsics has been using her legs for everything since she was a baby. She knows no impossible, and once she...
Adrián Szász dr.
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...
Andrea Csongor
"No one will commit suicide with beautiful, freshly washed hair...”
"If anyone thinks it would help them, or just make them feel better, please get in touch! I offer free haircuts to people in...
Sára Pataki
World record-breaking Hungarian talents – two high school students from Budapest win the Oxford Schools Debating Competition twice in a row
Two Hungarian high school girls have broken records, winning the Oxford Schools’ International Debating Competition in two different categories last year and again this...
Henrietta Vadas
"Painting eggs was love at first sight" –Ildikó Fekete decorates eggs under the spell of angles and symmetries
Ildikó Fekete was captivated by the art of wax-dyed eggs from a very young age: she has been making them since she was 16...
Zsuzsanna Bagdán
Budapest's best-known fortune teller, who consulted in cafes – the story of Boriska Silbiger
In the early 2000s, the director of a cultural institution said to a prominent radio journalist, " Only Silbiger Boriska can give you some...
Mariann Háver-Varga
"Our legs are the most honest part of our body" – Body language is worth reading and mastering
In Hungary, relatively few people deal with body language, and psychologists and trainers use it as a supplementary topic at most. However, Nóra Bíró...
Pál Horváth
Speaker of 30 languages – Sándor Kőrösi Csoma, life of the wayfaring scientist
Sándor Kőrösi Csoma, the gifted scientific traveller, wrote his name not only into the history of Hungarians through his perseverance and sacrifice.
Zsejke Jámbor-Miniska
“Only the forgotten die” – The immortal love of a 1956 martyr and a young woman
Árpád Brusznyai was a true intellectual. A young teacher who only wanted good, who did not murder or steal, his only ‘crime’ being that...
Andrea Tóth-Fazekas
“Being Hungarian is an incredible experience, despite the bitter pain.” In conversation with opera singer Levente Molnár
“Spiritually, I reckon viceroy (bán) Bánk was a Szekler, just as I am. I, too, have exactly the same emotional charge: I truly tremble...
Nóra Ivády
Fifteen years in refuge – Unseen chapters from the life of Cardinal József Mindszenty
We know from Hungarian history that a person who has been convicted of treason by both the Arrow Cross and the Communist regimes can...