This time last year the Paprika Museum at PaprikaMolnar’s factory turned ten and on our tenth-year anniversary. I remembered some outstanding moments and statistics from the past ten years. In this post I’d like to look at the past a little and share some news from the previous one year. How did the Paprika Museum…
Paprika is in the air is the title of a collection of essays, short stories and articles written by Zsigmond Móricz, early-20th century writer and columnist, which he wrote during his numerous visits to Szeged, Paprika Town. Many decades later the writings recreate Szeged people before the war, and the reader can’t help but marvel…
Paprika is in the air is the title of a collection of essays, short stories and articles written by Zsigmond Móricz, early-20th century writer and columnist. In September 1936 he goes deep into Paprika Town and marvels at the sight of red people in red clothes, with red hair, red hands and faces. Like red…
„The water came in on us on St Gregory’s day… oh, what an ugly devil that was…. And the strong winds that drove the water all the way…. I had an old boat and we used that for fleeing. When the water was coming, it was rolling like rocks, high up! It was roaring loud……
25th of February in Hungary is Remembrance Day of the victims of the communist regime that lasted roughly between 1948 and 1989. The part of the regime that I knew as a child was the 70s and 80s, which is often referred to retrospectively as goulash communism, meaning a lighter form of dictatorship, a relative…
The very first museum piece in PaprikaMolnár’s Paprika Museum was the Szánthó family’s entire business and family documents, as can be read in an earlier article. The Szánthós ran a wheat and paprika-mill for two generations in Szeged-Szentmihály. The documents from a hundred years ago offer interesting insight into local and paprika history. Mihály Szánthó…
Paprika is in the air is the title of a collection of essays, short stories and articles written by Zsigmond Móricz, early-20th century writer and columnist. Móricz was non-native to Szeged and the stories reflect his visions and experiences of Szeged the city and its people between the 1910s and 1930s. In August 1936 he…
The history of Szeged and paprika have been forever linked together thanks to the local Franciscans and Nobel Prize winner Albert Szent-Györgyi. Another emblematic figure, though much less known, is chemist and paprika researcher Ernő Obermayer who was born 130 years ago, on 13 December 1888. Obermayer, a chemistry graduate from Budapest, was the first…
How did we go from getting a bunch of papers to actually building a museum? How did it all begin? What set the idea off was when my father, Albert Molnár, bought several thick folders with neatly organized documents in them. The papers had once been the property of the Szánthó family who ran a…
Saint Andrew’s day on the 30th November is nearing. In olden times this day was special for girls because on the eve of the day they could predict their future husband. For farmers in general, however, it had a more universal significance: it marked the end of the agricultural year and as cold weather set…
World War I – or, as it was called then the Great War – ended a hundred years ago. The war was ignited by the tragic event on 28 July 1914, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated in Sarajevo. The Balkan powder keg exploded and various conflicts within Europe escalated into war,…
Zsigmond Móricz, early-20th century writer and columnist visited Szeged in 1913. Szeged was a new and upcoming town then, just barely rebuilt after the Great Flood. He loved to sit and talk to local people, seek out what they were like, what made them Szegedi. In his prose collection called Paprika is in the…