It is 90 years since Annie Fischer won the first prize at the Franz Liszt International Piano Competition at the age of 19, which...
Adrián Szász dr.
A new icon is born in Liverpool: Dominik Szoboszlai – The power that can raise him among the best
He was just 19 when we sat down to talk in a café in Székesfehérvár a few days before Christmas in 2019. He was...
Sára Nagy-Kuthi
Protecting abused girls in Transcarpathia, Ukraine – the story of a Hungarian pastor
Almost two decades ago, Pastor Viktória Katona 's life in Transcarpathia began with a ten-month ministry in Velyka Dobron (Nagydobrony), Ukraine. Later, she was...
Henrietta Vadas
Hungary's only active ice sculptor who is also a chainsaw woodcarver – "We've even carved an ice carriage that you could sit in"
István Gáborecz, who is originally from Transcarpathia, initially wanted to become a painter, but his application form was mixed up during the admission procedure...
Ágnes Jónás
Biologists and all nature-loving people may weep: iron-containing wastewater has been flowing into the River Sajó for several months
The River Sajó, which is even praised by Gyula Juhász in one of his poems, springs from the Gömör-Szepesi mountain range in Slovakia and...
Ágnes Jónás
"With the orangutan I felt that he understood: I was there to help him" – Dr Endre Sós has been responsible for the health of the animals at Budapest Zoo for 25 years
Maybe we can say that the Budapest Zoo is the second home of Dr. Endre Sós . He volunteered here as an undergraduate, has...
Kati Szám
"I was standing on a farm at 23 and felt like my life had ended" – Whose dreams really?
Our parents sometimes make huge sacrifices to make their wildest dreams come true for us. And then, in the idyll they created, we may...
Kata Molnár-Bánffy
Veszprém is to be European Capital of Culture in 2023 – An Interview with Tibor Navracsics Government Commissioner
Veszprém is a beautiful city. It's nice to walk around it, especially if you have a guide who knows every corner of the city...
Kata Molnár-Bánffy
The Opera House opens – We talked to Szilveszter Ókovács, General Director
The stage of the Hungarian State Opera House, including the rigging loft, is said to be as many cubic meters as the entire Víg...
Pál Horváth
From a villa in Buda to a chicken coop on a farm – The life story of Zsigmond Széchenyi
„We are given imagination as compensation for what we are not, and a sense of humour as consolation for what we are.” ( Count...
Ildikó Gergely-Baka
Take care of the bird if it flies into your garden – an interview with Bence Máté
A couple of days ago in a Facebook group, undergraduate students tried to convince a 17-year-old not to go for social sciences, for „there...
Lívia Kölnei
Ildikó Gergely-Baka
Close to the heart of society - the launch of the Hungarian Women's Aid Service
On 13 June 1915, the National Stefania Association was founded to solve the great social challenges of the era, the high infant and maternal...
Adrián Szász dr.
"The Hungarian language is music to my ears" – sculptor Gyuri Hollósy takes care of his Hungarian roots in the US
He has never lived in Hungary, yet he speaks our language without an accent, and his Hungarian identity defines his life. Gyuri Hollósy was...