Life

  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...