“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...
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...
Kati Szám
Diána Ürge-Vorsatz: “Do I have the right to consume more but they don’t have the right to live?”
The recent past has been an unusual time for us all. It came with losses, lessons, and – although these are perhaps less obvious...
Csaba Németh
Not an idea out of the air – Interview with Dr Rita Somogyi, winner of the Transport Innovation Award
A young Hungarian engineer, Dr. Rita Somogyi, and her team have now brought a new and precise solution to the field of GPS-based support...
Villő Nagy
“I never longed to live abroad” – in conversation with Dezső Ránki, Artist of the Nation
Pianist Dezső Ránki is an outstanding figure in the world of music, both for his modesty and his talent. Last year, he was among...
Csák-Nagy Kriszta
“I am blessed in that my soul remains youthful.” – Father Fülöp, missionary of Belgian origin
At first sight, one wouldn’t guess that he is a priest – only when he's in a church wearing the chasuble. Instead, he is...
Lenke Fehér
“The fact is, you should be exterminated! – the fates of priests after 1956
In the wake of the crushing of the 1956 Revolution until late 1957, that is, in just over one year, nearly 20,000 people were...