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
"I could really be present mentally" – Márton Offner from Zalaegerszeg is Europe's best plumbing and heating technician
Only 21 years old, but he won the EuroSkills Competition this year. He almost resigned for the silver medal, but in the end, he...
Lívia Kölnei
One semi-true and one false myth about Ignác Semmelweis
Dr. Ignác Semmelweis , perhaps the world's best-known Hungarian doctor, was born into a German family in Buda in 1818 and died in a...
Adrián Szász dr.
A big New Year's Eve bank robbery in Pest – the action of three petty criminals ended in a tragic bloodbath
In 1903, at the age of 23, Géza Schäffer was employed by the Hungarian Commercial Bank of Pest, and ten years later he experienced...
Samu Csinta
The movie-like story of a Hindu-Hungarian aristocratic family and their Transylvanian heritage
People call him Count Gergely; Gregor Roy Chowdhury-Mikes , the majority shareholder of the Secuiana, an apparel manufactory in Kézdivásárhely (Târgu Secuiesc), has aristocratic...
Sára Pataki
European champion Hungarian web developer says his profession is where art and engineering meet
He first got into programming when he was ten years old and had barely started high school before he developed his own web application...
Adrián Szász dr.
Bringanti puts even those on special bikes that others have given up on – "The morning wind touched him again, he saw the birds, the trees, the colours"
He creates bikes for people with special needs – disabled, injured, elderly, or otherwise challenged - who are enthusiastic and know no limits. Thus...
Jámbor-Miniska Zsejke
Hungarian inventor wins! – We asked Dániel Váczi about the international competition for musical instrument inventors
With his first place and People’s Choice, the Hungarian contestant was the absolute winner of the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition for instrument inventors in...
Kata Molnár-Bánffy
“The muscovite comes, he trashes the German, and then we get it”
So our family has its own historical knowledge of the Russians.
Kata Molnár-Bánffy
What are we doing in space? – an interview with Orsolya Ferencz
It seems as if the Hungarian public received the seemingly exotic news that our country's national space strategy had been completed and that we...
Ágnes Bodonovich
”She thanked me for helping her to became a mother” – an interview with Edit Frivaldszky
Edit Frivaldszky is one of the best-known figures in the field of life and family protection, who has been helping mothers in distress for...
Zsejke Jámbor-Miniska
We went to the Ukrainian-Hungarian border – ”The desire to give has not diminished”
Barabás is on the Hungarian-Ukrainian border, Papos about forty kilometers away. Although we don't hear much in the news about these smaller villages closer...
Fanni Fekete
”I am afraid if I left home, I would have nowhere to return to”
The Ukrainian-Russian war has caused great fear among the Hungarians in Ukraine. Whoever had the chance to leave the country has already left but...
Kinga Halász
KockaCsoki – where making chocolate helps people with autism
KockaCsoki ('Square' or, literally, a 'cube' of Chocolate) is more than just an artisanal chocolate workshop: it is a social enterprise that helps young...