Barbara Schuster
Ferenc Marlok in his workshop

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
Dénes Laczkó

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
a set of Hungarian playing cards

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...
Tamás Velkei
Volunteer hairdresser giving a haircut to a Ukranian refugee boy

”Sometimes you want to look pretty, I’m happy now” – Volunteer hairdressers make new hairdos for Ukrainian refugees

We received an invitation to a special event: the Hungarian Reformed Church Aid turned its office in Erzsébetváros, Budapest into a hairdressing salon for...
Adrián Szász dr.
Annamária Győrfi and Zsuzsa Győrfi Lászlóné, shepherdesses from Darassa

Never before have so many herderesses gathered in Hungary! – “It's not merely a struggle, the way we live, but it's wonderful, too!"

"They are indispensable in everything, helping us fully in the family, in the household, and with the animals. This way of life can only...
Sára Pataki
Dániel Nagy at the EuroSkills Competition is Gdansk, Poland

Europe’s best at joinery at 23 – “There must be no space between two wooden elements, not even for a sheet of paper”

He made garden benches as a child and recently became European champion in joinery at the age of 23. Despite his young age, Dániel...
Lívia Kölnei
Zsolt Rancz in front of a bookcase with his books on

”It’s Easy For You, ’Cause You’ve a Company” – A cool designer in Transylvania: Zsolt Rancz and the Wameleon Design

”Are you a rockstar designer? Has drawing always been your thing? Are you a good problemsolver? Do you love challenges? Can you master Adobe...
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Lívia Kölnei
Ildikó Bálint

"As soon as you enter, time freezes and you find yourself back in your childhood" – Selfieteria in Szabadka: a playground for adults

She makes other people's dreams come true while realizing her childhood dream. Ildikó Bálint , the founder and creator of the Selfieteria, Selfie Museum...
Fanni Fekete
Adrán Marcinkó

“Komárom is a city with weight” – Adrián Marcinkó is building the community of Hungarian entrepreneurs in Slovakia

Many people think that entrepreneurs are lonely people, and as a minority Hungarian, this can be doubly true. Adrián Marcinkó from Komárom, Slovakia, founder...
Kriszta Csák-Nagy
The Fenyvesi Family

“Now, Andrea, you won’t have any more children, will you?" - Risk, Adventure and Challenge with 11 kids

With ten siblings, you have to fight for attention as well as a good seat in the minibus. But you're never bored, and there's...
Sára Pataki
Tamás Bandúr and Zsolt Koncsik on the top of the podium at the EuroSkills Competition

Are you guys speaking Hungarian now? – Two young ICT Specialists who conquered Europe

"You can be a game developer or a network engineer," says one of them, explaining why IT is a good career choice. In September...
Zsejke Jámbor-Miniska
The owners of Kiscsikó restaurant, Ildikó and Róbert Puskás with their daughter

The love of the whole team is in every dish – the Kiscsikó restaurant in Transcarpathia is open even in wartime

The phone number starts with +38. This is Ukraine. The neighbouring country where there has been a war for two years now and which...
Sára Pataki
Márton Offner

"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
A painting of Ignác Semmelweis in 1857, aged 39, at the time of his wedding

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.
Liberty Square in Budapest in 1912 on a postcard

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
Gregor Roy Chowdhury

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), Romania, has...
Sára Pataki
János Hidvégi working at his computer at the EuroSkills Competition

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.
Antal Frank

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 - but who are enthusiastic and know no limits...
Ádám Lázár
Magdolna Friedmann and her husband

Hungarian Women for India – and what they shared: dedication, intellectual strength, and sensitivity to others

India became an independent country in 1947. Few people know that until the outbreak of World War II, a few self-sacrificing Hungarian women worked...
Sára Pataki
Bálint Czimmer at the EuroSkills Competition

From his great-grandparents' house to the top of the podium – Bálint Czimmer, European Champion in Interior Painting

"In just a few days you can transform an apartment to make you feel like you're entering a completely different place," says 20-year-old Bálint...
Lívia Kölnei
Kálmán Varga and his garden steam engine

A creative engineer made his childhood dream come true and rides his own steam locomotive in his garden

"I was about ten years old when I saw that there was a machine blowing smoke in one of the backyards in our street...
Andrea Csongor
István and his adopted son Timoti

Becoming a father in a single minute – "I gave up my high-paying job, European travels, and my life as a cool, single man for a baby"

In some strange way, the theme of motherhood comes to my mind like the giant fish in the old fisherman's. Sometimes I feel like...
Tamás Ulicza
Géza Soós and a Heinkel He-111 bomber plane

Saving Jews with currant jam – The fascinating life story of the unjustly forgotten Géza Soos

To fly a stolen German plane over the front to the Allies, to save the lives of a dozen Jews and prisoners of war...
Andrea Csongor
The group of sportsmen travelling to the XVI Summer Olympic Games. In the foreground István Hevesi water polo player, next to him Imre Polyák wrestler, and György Gurics wrestler, behind them Ervin Zádor water polo player, and Jenő Bakó, swimming master coach

The "Melbourne bloodbath", the revenge of the Hungarian water polo team – How we repaid the crushing of the '56 revolution

It would surely be difficult to find a connection between the sight of blood mixing with the pool water, the Olympic performance of our...
Zsejke Jámbor-Miniska
Donát Fehérvári

The 17-year-old Hungarian Lego designer, whose tabletop foosball is now available as a set by LEGO

There is no one in Hungary who wouldn't know what Lego is. The joy of building can fascinate even the youngest children, and after...
Andrea Csongor
a chellist

”Professional musicians need nerves of steel and the physical condition of an astronaut” – There might be a lot of pain behind musical achievements

As early as 1959, Zoltán Kodály noticed that there were many health problems among musicians: tendonitis, tennis elbow, golfer’s elbow, spinal disorders, in other...
Adrián Szász dr.
Norbert Biró

"I see from my memories" – as a teenager, for Norbert Biró, Paralympic bronze medallist, everything got blurred

He started out as a promising junior national judo player, but at the age of 16 his eyesight began to deteriorate rapidly. As a...