Eva Maria Ehrhard was born in Berlin. She was not quite 18 when the World War II ended and she took her first job, working initially as an internee with a Berlin daily newspaper. It was here that she met Heinz Mudrich (1925–2016) whom she subsequently married. It was, according to Mudrich, a "lightning encounter that lasted sixty years". In 1950 she moved on to undertake freelance work with various radio stations, concentrating on programmes for schools, children and young people and "women's topics".