Life

  • Zsejke Jámbor-Miniska
    Emil Karáth and his son

    Hungarian marine biologist rebuilds coral reefs with his teenage son

    Marine biologist Emil Karáth almost drowned twice as a child, but despite - or perhaps because of - this, the water became his life...
  • Ágnes Jónás
    Amrita Shér-Gil in an archive photo

    India’s national treasure was half-Hungarian and lived only 28 years – Indian-Hungarian painter Amrita Shér-Gil was born 110 years ago

    In just six years of her adult life, Hungarian-Indian-born painter Amrita Sher-Gil has created an impressive oeuvre of paintings that is now a national...
  • Eszter Király
    Tamás Kertész

    ”I’m not going to give up on my brother” – Tamás Kertész swimmer looks after his wheelchair-bound brother 24 hours a day

    He blinks shyly at the lens but looks me in the eye with great confidence. "I'm more nervous than I was in my university...
  • Emese Kosztin
    László Kupi geologist

    To go somewhere no one had ever been before

    Men can also be scared. Men are also driven by the agony of fear, and the desire to prove themselves. They too are wounded...
  • Anikó Wéber
    A woman with her child beside a Christmas tree in 1906

    ”At the moment of Jesus' birth, the Lake Balaton came to be” – the magic of Christmases past

    There were many Christmas customs and traditions in 19th-century Hungary, which are still kept by many families today. What are they? How did young...
  • Adrián Szász dr.
    Ferenc Rófusz in front of the Oscar Statue

    ”Someone from above writes into my script” – Oscar-winner Ferenc Rófusz sent a message with The Fly: we'll get hit on if we buzz too much

    Ferenc Rófusz, the animation filmmaker and creator of the first Oscar-winning Hungarian animation film (The Fly, 1981), recently received the Lifetime Achievement Award at...
  • Kriszta Csák-Nagy
    Baroque room of sugar

    Sugar bell, sugar stamp, sugar room – Marzipan Land, the empire of the Oscar-winning Lajos Kopcsik

    It’s not only the taste of sweets that you can enjoy, but also the sight of them. This is especially true when someone uses...
  • Ágnes Bodonovich
    Mihály Zillich Franciscan monk among kids

    “I was an altar boy in the morning and a thief in the afternoon” – The testimony of a Franciscan monk

    The life of Franciscan monk Mihály Zillich - or as everyone calls him, Brother Misi - is a good example of how God is...
  • Ágnes Bodonovich
    Borbála Ivicsics

    "No arms, but I’ve received many other things from God"

    Born without arms, Borbála Ivicsics has been using her legs for everything since she was a baby. She knows no impossible, and once she...
  • Adrián Szász dr.
    Robert Capa with his camera

    Robert Capa, the world's best-known war photographer had a passionate desire for peace

    "It's not enough to have talent, you also have to be Hungarian", said Robert Capa, the greatest war reporter in the history of photography...
  • Andrea Csongor
    a hairdresser salon

    "No one will commit suicide with beautiful, freshly washed hair...”

    "If anyone thinks it would help them, or just make them feel better, please get in touch! I offer free haircuts to people in...
  • Adrián Szász dr.
    Áron Trufán with his two kids laying a ceremonial wreath in Chicago

    "As a Szekler, God expects a little more from me" – Chicago pastor believes in friendship between heaven and earth

    Even during his student years in Marosvásárhely (Târgu Mures), there were always communities around Áron Trufán - whether he was going to folk dancing...
  • Adrián Szász dr.
    Karolina Sávolt

    "For me, painting comes naturally" – Karolina Sávolt amazes with her magical realism at the age of 12

    Twelve-year-old Karolina Sávolt started painting self-taught two and a half years ago and this year she has already had her own exhibition in Budapest...
  • Zsejke Jámbor-Miniska
    A descendant of the Esterházy Family

    The communists couldn’t wipe out the past for good – Family members from as far as Chicago and London came to the World Meeting of the Esterházys

    "Respect the past to understand the present and to be able to work for the future." - this is the motto of the World...
  • Tamás Velkei
    Father András

    “I enjoy being a monk because I have dedicated my life to the one I love and who loves me.”

    What makes someone want to become a Pauline monk? What is necessary to choose this vocation? Can a monk be in love? What do...
  • Henrietta Vadas
    Flóra Béry-Januskó with her son, Ábris

    “I saw my child lying on a table, covered with a sheet” – The story of Flóra Béry-Januskó and her little son with SMA

    "As a senior in high school, I was diagnosed with a gynecological condition that gave me very little chance of ever getting pregnant naturally...
  • Adrián Szász dr.
    Mátyás Tóbiás and Schwarzenegger

    "It's hard to pay attention to your surroundings when you have The Terminator standing next to you” – We talked to Schwarzenegger's Hungarian bodyguard

    He was bullied as a child and enrolled in martial arts at the age of 14 to protect himself later in life. And -...