August 15, 2014

The Leitha Monitor Museum Ship at the Parliament building is opened for the public

Minister of Defence Csaba Hende inaugurated the one-time Leitha warship in the harbor set up at the northern part of the Parliament building. The exhibition onboard the Leitha was compiled by the Association for Shipping History, Modeling and the Maintenance of Traditions (HMNE) of the Society for the Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge (TIT) in cooperation with the Zoltán Steamboat Public Benefit Purpose Foundation and the Association for the Maintenance of the Memory of the Imperial and Royal Danube Flotilla at the request of the Ministry of Defence.

The ribbon symbolizing the opening of the museum ship was cut by Csaba Hende and Deputy Speaker of Parliament János Latorcai (Christian Democratic People's Party). The ceremony was attended, among others, by Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Hungary Colonel General Tibor Benkő, President of the National Memorial and Piety Committee (NEKB) and former Prime Minister Péter Boross, Director-General of the House of Terror Museum Mária Schmidt as well as several generals and members of the First World War Centenary Memorial Committee. The warship of historical significance anchored at the Antall József Quay is part of the Parliament Visitor Center. The exhibition came into being with the financial support of the First World War Centenary Memorial Committee.

July 28, 2014

The launching event of the First World War Centenary series of state events in the Hungarian State Opera House

The series of state events on the one hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of World War I started with the performance entitled When arms speak, Muses are silent in the Hungarian State Opera House in Budapest. The event was supported by the First World War Centenary Memorial Committee. Speaker of Parliament László Kövér gave a ceremonial speech at the launching event. It was recalled at the evening event that the Opera House was closed between September 1914 and March 1915 due to the outbreak of the world war. In addition to the performances of Gabriel Fauré's Requiem and Gustav Mahler's The Song of the Earth, passages from the works of Mihály Babits, Géza Csáth, Frigyes Karinthy, Gyula Krúdy and Ernő Szép as well as excerpts from the diary of soldier János Papp and the letters written by Béla Teleki and Ernő Tóbiás could be heard. The exhibition came into being with the financial support of the First World War Centenary Memorial Committee.

July 27, 2014

Il Silenzio was played also in the Castle of Buda

Hungary had also joined the initiative on the basis of which on July 27, 2014, the eve of the one hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of World War I, tribute was paid in honor of the victims of World War I in several countries by the performance of the famous military "lights out" call Il Silenzio. The musical piece was played by one of the most highly sought-after trumpet players, the internationally renowned Áron Koós-Hutás in Hungary, in a spot with a brilliant atmosphere of the Savoya Terrace of the Castle of Buda.There was a live broadcast of the event on Hungarian Television.

July 19, 2014

Exhibition in the Hungarian Theater Museum and Institute

The exhibition entitled "Soldier actors and captive prima donnas:  Frontline and prisoner of war theaters in World War I" has been opened in the Hungarian Theater Museum and Institute (OSZMI). The temporary exhibition entitled Soldier actors and captive prima donnas presented professional and amateur frontline theaters organized during the war as well as Hungarian prisoner of war theaters in Siberia. The exhibition came into being with the financial support of the First World War Centenary Memorial Committee. 

June 5, 2014

The First World War Centenary Memorial Committee and the 20^th Century Institute organized a conference entitled With Pen and Paper among Bayonets: Hungarian Poets and Writers in World War I with the participation of the following speakers:

Mátyás Sárközi: The Diary of a War Correspondent and The White Cloud: Ferenc Molnár and World War I

Tibor Palkovics: A drop of damnation: The war as an internal experience in Béla Hamvas's thinking

Eszter Edina Molnár: I consider myself a dead person of the war: The role that the world war played in Géza Csáth's tragedy

Miklós Veres: The writer, the editor and the public figure: Ferenc Herczeg's roles in World War I

Andrea Borbás: The saving Messiah of national poetry: The Ady-Gyóni opposition and the world war

May 8 and 9, 2014

The war that puts an end to all wars – To the 100^th anniversary of the outbreak of the Great War

At the request of the Faculty of Arts of Eötvös Loránd University, the Department of Modern and Contemporary History organized an international scholarly conference on the occasion of the 100^th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I. The conference was supported, among others, by the First World War Centenary Memorial Committee and was held with the participation of the following speakers:

Tamás Dezső: Dean's welcoming address

Ferenc Glatz: The hundred years' war of Europe

Robert Evans: A new approach to the development of World War I

Mária Schmidt: Europe's fraternal war

Vilmos Kovács: Hungarian military industry during World War I

Zoltán Maruzsa: István Tisza and the crisis leading to World War I

Ferenc Szávai: The economic effects of the war in Central Europe

Ferenc Fischer: Zeigen der Flagge (Signs of the flag). Three warships of Wilhelm II and the special mission of Prince Heinrich von Hohenzollern in Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina and Chile in the spring of 1914

Tibor Frank: Wars and peaces: Attempts at a separate peace treaty at the end of World War I

András Gerő: From the assassination to the declaration of war: The last month of peace in the Hungary of the Monarchy (from June 28, 1914 to July 28, 1914)

András Kocsis: The outbreak of the Great War: Assassination, ultimatum, mobilization and declaration of war

Ferenc Pollmann: The panic in Pančevo (Pancsova)

Tibor Balla: Generals of Hungarian origin in the Austrian-Hungarian armed forces and the Great War

Dávid Ligeti: The fall of a field-marshal – Thoughts on the relief of Chief of the General Staff Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf in 1917

József Kaló: The Schlieffen Plan and its failure: the first year of the war on the western frontline

Tamás Pintér: The memory of the battle of Doberdo: The war of mines

Norbert Stencinger: The application of war gases in the defence of the Doberdo Plateau, June 1916

Ferenc Kaiser: The escape of the battle cruiser SMS Goeben in the summer of 1914 (The ship that has overthrown an empire)

Mihály Krámli: Navalism and the preparation of the Austrian-Hungarian Navy to the Great War

Gábor Antal: From the sea to the desert: The history of the battle cruiser EMDEN on the basis of the memoirs of Navy 2nd Lieutenant Hellmuth von Mücke

Gábor Székely: The geopolitical shift of power at the end of the Great War – to Germany

Eszter Edina Molnár: The limits of alignment

Péter András Tóth: While we mobilized ten soldiers, they did fifteen. The judgment of the Central Powers in the circles of the Entente Cordiale and the US

Gergely Egedy: Lloyd George and the Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy

Zoltán Garadnai: Charles de Gaulle in World War I

Mária Pallagi: The question of Spanish neutrality as seen in Viennese diplomacy (from 1914 to 1918)

István Pál: The intelligence agency dimensions of the Unites States going to war

József Juhász: New interpretations of the Balkans question and the role of Serbia in the outbreak of the world war

Etleva Lala: Albania between Austro-Hungary and Italy at the beginning of World War I

Melek Çolak: The Turkish soldiers who escaped to Hungary during the First Balkan War (On the basis of Hungarian sources)

Patrik Szeghő: Montenegro in the Balkan policy of the great powers from the Eastern Question to the Paris

Peace Conference

Gábor Búr: War sites of World War I outside of Europe from the first to the last shots

Viktor Marsai: The end of an illusion – the collapse of the German colonial empire in Africa

Gábor Szabó-Zsoldos: The Boers and the British. The Maritz mutiny (1914–1915): an almost civil war in the Great War

Ákos Ferwagner: The dilemmas of British Near Eastern policy (1914–1916)

Andrea Pető: The memory of the Great War on the basis of genders

Balázs Sipos: Women and the world war – women in Hungary after the war

Anita Madarász: What is the value of suffrage, if we are losing the country in which we can vote? – The history of British women's suffrage movement (1914–1918)

Gábor Benedek: The place of New Europe in Masaryk's oeuvre

László Gulyás: An attempt at building a nation-state, Czechoslovakia from 1918 to 1939

Andrej Tóth: World War I as a path leading to the foundation of the Czechoslovak state

József Vonyó: World War I and racial protection

Tamás Krausz: World War I in Lenin's interpretation

Géza Gecse: Expansion and self-reflection, or rather the lack thereof, in Russian politics – from Sarajevo to the Prince Islands (1914–1919)

Gyula Papp: The roots of World War I: imperialism and imperial ideologies

Imre Garaczi: The consequences of World War I in the geopolitical fate of East Central European small states

Csaba Surányi: Was the war unavoidable?

Péter Szatmári: The Europe of lunatics? Who is responsible for the outbreak of the war?

Ates Uslu: The Great War and its Origins in the Levantine Press of Istanbul

Nikolay Baranov: World War I as seen in contemporary German and Russian literature

Eszter Balázs: "Official literature" and the war (1914-1916)

Zoltán Oszkár Szőts: Topics chosen in Hungarian-language book publishing during World War I

Miklós Veres: Nightmares of a great war in utopian and science fiction literature in the era of the Dual Monarchy

Miklós Zeidler: World War I in the school textbooks of the Horthy era

László Tamás Vizi: The signatories of the Trianon Peace Treaty in World War I

Péter Hevő: Germany's relationship with its eastern neighbors during the time of Stresemann's foreign policy

Pál Pritz: The opportunities and massive limits of the enforcement of Hungarian national interests during World War I

Zoltán Szász: Ethnic minorities in World War I

Zsolt Vesztróczy: Budapest? Vienna? Prague? Possible directions of the Slovak national movement in the 1910s

Csaba Csapó: The diary of Elemér Simontsits senior

Péter Csunderlik: Listen, and swear well – The "anti-military" activity of the Galilei Circle during World War I (1914-1918)

János Majdán: The railroad schedule has collapsed... – Hungarian railroads in the first period of the Great War

András Balogh: The effect of World War I in Asia and Africa

Ágnes Judit Szilágyi: The effect of the European Great War on Brazilian social movements (1917-1920)

László Tőkéczki: István Tisza on the Hungarian nation, the Monarchy and the war

Iván Bertényi junior: The King is dead – Long live the King! Preparation for the coronation of Karl IV

Ferenc Maczó: The coronation of the last king and the satirical political papers

László Kósa: The memory of World War I in family tradition

Mónika Mátay and Henrietta Trádler: The victims of the war after the fights – arsenic in Tiszazug

Eleonóra Géra: Death came by streetcar. Budapest weekdays in the threat of Spanish flu

Bence Péter Bozó: The Orvosi Hetilap (Medical Weekly) and World War I

István Majoros: Picture postcards from the frontline: The visual war

March 25, 2014

The event entitled Poles and World War I took place as the third stage of the series of roundtable discussions processing the talks presented at the November 2013 international conference Europe’s Great War and the Birth of the New World Order, with the participation of the following speakers:

István Kovács: The Polish cause on the frontlines of World War I

Kowalski, Roman: The question of Polish independence in Hungarian inner policy during World War I

Lajos Pálfalvi: The idea of the Polish nation in the era of modernism

February 12, 2014

The event entitled Germany on the Eve of World War I took place as the second stage of the series of roundtable discussions related to the talks presented at the international conference Europe’s Great War and the Birth of the New World Order, with the participation of the following speakers:

Droste, Wilhelm: The smell of war

Ferenc Eiler: German aspirations in South Eastern Europe before World War I

Dr. Dezső Szabó: Belle Epoque? Literary and artistic life in Germany before World War I

December 11, 2013

The event entitled The Lost "Golden Age" took place as the first stage of the series of roundtable discussions processing the talks presented at the November 2013 international conference Europe's Great War and the Birth of the New World Order, with the participation of the following speakers:

István Diószegi: The common foreign policy as a means of integration in the Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy

András Gerő: The lost "golden age": The world of the Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy

Gyula Zeke: The golden age of the silver age

November 11 and 12, 2013

The First World War Centenary Memorial Committee, the House of Terror Museum and the 20^th Century Institute are organizing an international conference entitled Europe's Great War and the Birth of the New World Order   The two-day conference held with the participation of a number of renown foreign historians is the launching event of Hungary's First World War centenary series of events.

Speakers: András Balogh, Ivo Banac, Alain de Benoist, Norman Stone, András Gerő, Ferenc Glatz, Peter März, Gianluca Volpi, Sean McMeekin, Tomasz Schramm, Andrey K. Sorokin, Ivan Ilchev, Karl Vocelka, Barbara Bracco, Frédéric Guelton, Xavier Moreno Juliá, Sándor M. Kiss, Petra Svoljsak, Jaroslav Hricak, Eva Irmanová.

Tibor Navracsics: Opening speech

Mária Schmidt: Welcome

András Gerő: The lost Hungarian "golden age"

Peter März: The circumstances and consequences of World War I in Germany

Gianluca Volpi: Losing a battle or losing the war? The negative myth of Caporetto (Kobarid) in Italy and outside of Italy

Alain De Benoist: Why and how did Europe lose World War I?

Tomasz Schramm: Poland and World War I

Sean Mcmeekin: The Ottoman war of succession

Andrey K. Sorokin: The Great War and our lost Russia

Karl Vocelka: The Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy in World War I: war hopes and the reasons for the fall

Ivan Ilchev: Bulgaria in World War I

Ivo Banac: The triumph of "new politics"

András Balogh: Is World War I one of the great wars or the beginning of the change of historical periods?

Barbara Bracco: The lost innocence: Italy from the interventionalist mobilization to mass mourning

Frédéric Guelton: What did France lose in World War I?

Xavier Moreno Juliá: Spain, the Spaniards and World War I: some aspects to consider

Sándor M. Kiss: The Hungarian elite in crisis situations

Petra Svoljsak: Between defeat and victory: gains and losses of Slovenia in the war

Jaroslav Hricak: Ukraine's unfinished war: 1914-2014

Eva Irmanová: World War I and Masaryk's concept of the liberation program

Bence Rétvári Closing speech