He supports the Freeszfe Association and condemns the curtailment of artistic freedom. We asked Robert Wilson about the why. He also sent a message to young Hungarians. AN INTERVIEW BY PANNI NÉDER. More
On the 30th anniversary of the political transition we scrutinized the changes in various branches of culture. Whether the most fundamental change is to be seen in literature is far from certain, nonetheless, it is literature that is able – when it is able – to immediately grasp with words the small and great changes in life, the fate of a country and its citizens, and the phenomena of the world. Our overview is superficial by nature, the topic would merit a volume of essays. AN INTERVIEW BY ÁGNES MERÉNYI More
The idea of creating the Central European University was conceived in 1989 and its foundation followed quite soon thereafter, in 1991. Its fundamental concept was to find the way for an educational institution to help the transition from Soviet type dictatorships to democratic open societies. We talked with Éva Fodor, the pro-rector of CEU, to discuss whether CEU was a product of the shift in power or was it to some extent also able to influence social processes. AN INTERVIEW BY ÁGNES MERÉNYI. More
Brazilian soap operas and Dallas, infotainment and talk shows, cop series and space series – asking script writer and television historian Pál Laska about domestic and imported emblematic TV shows of the eighties and nineties. AN INTERVIEW BY FERENC LÁSZLÓ. More
The Black Hole (1988-1994) was a legendary club in Budapest in Golgota street. It was the first place in the country to gather underground subcultures, and its history is linked with the political changes of 1989. We had a chat with Ferenc Hammer, the chair of the Media and Communication department at ELTE about young people, politics, punk and H&M’s Ramones t-shirts. INTERVIEW BY PANNI PUSKÁS. More
Soros, Fidesz, civilians, lobby, socialism and the bourgeois values, plus the Vatican and the C8. Through the history of the Hungarian civil society organisations we can in fact trace the journey of Hungarian democracy. And with a little bit of luck, like we have now, our guide making sense of the chaos will be Balázs Gerencsér, the head of the NIOK (Non-profit Information and Training Center) Foundation. AN INTERVIEW BY PANNI PUSKÁS. More
When someone speaks about US and Hungarian theatrical relationships, you cannot miss his name. Philip Arnoult, head of the Center for International Theatre Development (CITD) says that he spent his whole life in different spaces waiting for something to happen. And it was worth doing it. AN INTERVIEW BY TAMÁS JÁSZAY. More
