Life

  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Lilla Zeke
    Noben Prize laureate Ferenc Krausz

    "The Hungarian scientist who received the Nobel Prize" – Ferenc Krausz in service of humanity

    "From the podium, it's hard to tell who will win a Nobel Prize, but you can see who is ambitious. Ferenc Krausz was one...
  • Andrea Csongor
    Katalin Karikó

    “How come we haven't noticed this before?” – was asked from Katalin Karikó, who in turn discovered it and received the Nobel Prize

    The question was asked at a party by a scientist who had earlier repeatedly criticized Katalin Karikó , the Hungarian biochemist who has just...
  • Henrietta Vadas
    98-year -old Sára Komárominé Vojna in her humble home

    “As a maid, I knew every nook and cranny of the Habsburg castle in Alcsút” – the story of 98-year-old Sári néni

    Sára Komárominé Vojna, or Sári néni , was born on 1 November 1925 in Alcsút, where she grew up as the fourth child in...
  • Villő Tóth
    Éva Ádám

    The adventurous journey of Éva, a young Roma social worker from Tata to Berlin – "To be human in all circumstances"

    Éva Ádám is a young woman who has seen so many touching human stories that a lifetime might not be enough to tell them...
  • Adrián Szász dr.
    Sándor Iharos running at a race

    World success chased him in vain, never caught up with him – Sándor Iharos, a runner who was faster than everyone

    It is said that in Hungary in the 1950s, Sándor Iharos was to athletics what Ferenc Puskás was to football. In 1955, he was...
  • Adrián Szász dr.
    Réka Csulak

    “A food photo is only good if it makes you want to go and get it!” – Food photographer Réka Csulak's works win international awards

    She takes photos of food, often preparing the dishes herself, based on her own recipes, and is usually the food stylist for the photos...
  • Orsolya Jean
    Regina Káró with her mother

    Regina Káró: ”If you fail at something, there is only one thing you should never do: quit. Because you can always try again.”

    At the age of 23, Regina Káró felt she had made it: she successfully graduated from college and spent her internship at a luxury...
  • Adrián Szász dr.
    Dominic Szoboszlai playing football at the Hungary-Lithuania match

    A new icon is born in Liverpool: Dominik Szoboszlai – The power that can raise him among the best

    He was just 19 when we sat down to talk in a café in Székesfehérvár a few days before Christmas in 2019. He was...
  • Sára Nagy-Kuthi
    kids in the children's home in Nagydobrony

    Protecting abused girls in Transcarpathia, Ukraine – the story of a Hungarian pastor

    Almost two decades ago, Pastor Viktória Katona 's life in Transcarpathia began with a ten-month ministry in Velyka Dobron (Nagydobrony), Ukraine. Later, she was...
  • Henrietta Vadas
    István Gáborecz with an eagle carved from ice

    Hungary's only active ice sculptor who is also a chainsaw woodcarver – "We've even carved an ice carriage that you could sit in"

    István Gáborecz, who is originally from Transcarpathia, initially wanted to become a painter, but his application form was mixed up during the admission procedure...
  • Sára Pataki
    Young people in booths learning a foreign language in Budapest in 1971

    Learning a new language at the age of 92 – Kató Lomb, one of the world's first simultaneous interpreters

    She struggled with German as a child, but a few decades later, a Russian-English dictionary she found in a resale shop sealed her fate...
  • Krisztián Pomichal
    Gyula Patasy in his garden

    ”Like the slave market in the colonies” – Gyula Patasy’s vivid memories of the deportation

    If you are lucky enough to live for seven or eight decades, you are bound to suffer the inevitable consequences of history. Among the...
  • Sára Pataki
    Jews wearing the yellow star in Budapest in 1944

    Tibor Baranski – The “Hungarian Schindler”, who saved thousands of Jews from death

    During the Second World War and the Holocaust, in Budapest, a 22-year-old Catholic priest student saved thousands of Jewish women, children, and men from...
  • Ágnes Bodonovich
    A child playing with a molecule model

    Talent is a kind of deviance: both a wonderful and dangerous opportunity

    Everyone knows a child who is very bright, who can read at the age of three, and who shows a keen interest in adult...
  • Ágnes Jónás
    Krisztián Simon with the Hungarian flag

    What makes a Hungarian cabinetmaker a gold medalist? – A good craftsman is a treasure today

    Krisztián Simon decided as a child that he wanted to work with wood. His willpower, diligence, and ability took him all the way to...