Culture

  • Lívia Kölnei
    Edit Madas

    "Those who study the Middle Ages live in close proximity to the saints" – interview with Széchenyi Prize laureate, Edit Madas

    Many people may have been surprised to hear the name of Dr Edit Madas among the 2024 Széchenyi Prize laureates. Not only because she...
  • Zsófia Mohos
    A Swabian woman in front of her house in Vojvodina in traditional Swabian attire

    ”I will wear this for the rest of my life"– The story of a Danube Swabian woman

    She uttered her thoughts in almost a single breath with words carried through long nights. At that time, I had already visited the thousand-faced...
  • Barbara Baska

    "My father became a hero twice" – The Baska family’s story speaks to hundreds of thousands

    After the Second World War, between 1945 and 1949, around 120,000 Hungarians in Czechoslovakia were deported or driven out of their homeland under the...
  • Andrea Csongor
    Bengedúz L. Pál

    "Circus is a tool for shaping the world" – Social circus is both healing and deeply human

    The unique world of the circus offers countless stories and metaphors for different artistic disciplines. Although I never really felt attached to it as...
  • Sára Pataki
    Tímea Dutka, the palace's tourist guide in a costume in the role of Queen Elizabeth – with the novel in her hand

    For Sissi, this palace was happiness itself – A novel about the history of Gödöllő Royal Palace

    The Royal Palace of Gödöllő. A place whose owners changed from age to age, while the staff remained the same. Lajos Kossuth, Queen Elisabeth...
  • Ágnes Jancsó
    Navigator Sándor Magyar and pilot György Endresz preparing to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, with the camera is Antal Bánhidi, mechanical engineer, aircraft designer

    "We did it, way to go" – The first Hungarian pilots over the Atlantic Ocean

    In July 1931, the Hungarian press was full of the names of György Endresz and Sándor Magyar , the two Hungarian pilots who were...
  • Kriszta Csák-Nagy
    László Erdei company first ensign, the lead violinist of the Erdei Folk Band

    The policeman from Eger who has his own folk band and plays for one man with the same zeal as for a thousand

    Perhaps for many of us, we have indulged in a hobby as a child – an art or a sport – that we turned...
  • Ágnes Jancsó
    The Wood Church of the Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple in Barcánfalva, (Bârsana)

    Sky-high wooden towers – unique contributions of Máramaros to the World Heritage

    Some very unique buildings were added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1999. Out of the nearly 100 typical wooden churches in Máramaros...
  • Henrietta Vadas
    Zsuzsa Enikő Kocsis and her husband after the wedding ceremony in their traditional folk attire

    “On our wedding almost everyone wore the traditional folk costume” – interview with a native girl from Szék, Romania

    A native of the village of Szék (Sic) in Transylvania, she is passionate about the traditions and costumes of her native people. She organized...
  • Kriszta Csák-Nagy
    Mihály Vajda icon painter

    “I paint the face of God because I believe that He became visible” – The icon painter deacon who also painted on Mount Athos

    I enter through the door of a simple, battered family house. In the garden birds chirp, and in the chapel, made out of three...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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, and, in...
  • Anita Bojtos
    Painting of Imre Székely composer

    Modest virtuoso and influential educator in the shadow of Franz Liszt – Composer Imre Székely was born 200 years ago

    What do Alexandre Dumas 's salon in Paris, Queen Victoria of Britain, the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, Budapest's oldest music school, the popular children's...
  • Anna Eszter Nyizsnyánszki
    Annie Fischer angling in 1962

    Annie Fischer, the Hungarian Queen of the Piano

    It is 90 years since Annie Fischer won the first prize at the Franz Liszt International Piano Competition at the age of 19, which...
  • Emese Kosztin
    Balázs Szövényi-Lux

    Love is an awakening to yourself

    The most romantic, sensitive man I've ever spoken to, who talks about love in a way that gives you goosebumps. He is passionate, fanatic...
  • Anikó Wéber
    Amália Bezerédj and her book, The Book of Flori

    A mother who wrote the first Hungarian children's book

    Amália Bezerédj wrote the first Hungarian children's book, The Book of Flóri, for her daughter and the kids of the kindergarten-school she founded on...