Moving to the countryside, a family’s mission in the Vértes mountains – “On a hill, in the dark, the little house is like a lantern”
A couple with young children gave up their life in the capital and found a new home and a new job a few years...
Barbara Schuster
Shaping body and soul – Ferenc Marlok makes scoliosis braces for teenagers
Ferenc Marlok is a master medical equipment technician who designs and produces custom-made plastic back braces for children with scoliosis. At first, the teenagers...
Sára Pataki
From feed factory to poultry shop chain – how the delicious Székely Csürke (Szekler Chicken) gets to the table
Born in Gyergyószentmiklós (Gheorgheni), Romania, educated in Kolozsvár (Cluj Napoca), he now runs the largest and most modern feed factory in Romania, and a...
Zsuzsanna Bogos
Why is the Swiss William Tell on the playing-card? – Discovering the secret of the Hungarian deck
In Hungary everyone is familiar with the so-called Hungarian playing cards, this popular, unique, and historical Hungarian game where the cards, oddly, are decorated...
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...
Zsejke Jámbor-Miniska
Da Vinci dreamed of it, Dániel Váczi made it – a new Hungarian instrument set off to conquer the world
For years, saxophonist Dániel Váczi and designer Tóbiás Terebessy have been working on a family of wind instruments that is apt to transition between...
Zsuzsanna Bagdán
A village saved from decay – Torockó
The feeling of being late in my generation has already been described in many different ways. For us, for example, the kind of Transylvanianism...
Kata Molnár-Bánffy
On the model table of past and future – a conversation with Dávid Vitézy about the new Museum of Transport
We are in a fascinating place: the size and complexity of the disused Northern Vehicle Repair Diesel-Hall in Kőbánya will surprise and impress even...
Ágnes Bodonovich
”I love my son as much as I love the other three” – an interview with Judit Folly whose third child was born with Down’s-syndrome
A couple of years ago, during a campaign for the Folly Arboretum Judit Folly's sister told us her sister's story. Judit's third child, Miklós...