Eva Maria Mudrich

Eva Maria Mudrich (13 July 1927 – 6 December 2006) was a German journalist and author, originally from Berlin. After moving to the west of the country in 1959 she came to wider prominence as the writer of a succession of radio plays, focusing initially on the science fiction, and subsequently broadening her scope to include crime drama.

Sources may also identify her, using her long-running pseudonym, as "Maren Offenburg".

By 1959 Heinz and Eva Maria Mudrich had married one another. Their son, the jazz pianist Christoph Mudrich (1960–2019), was born the next year. Meanwhile, Heinz Mudrich accepted a new job as Arts Editor with the Saarbrücker Zeitung which meant quitting Berlin and settling in Saarbrücken, where the media profile that Eva had built up through her radio work 700 kilometers away, in the Berlin area, counted for very little. "Du bis nicht allein" (1956 - "You are not alone") and "Susanne über den Wolken (1955 - "Susanne above the clouds"). In 1972 the Cologne-based Westdeutscher Rundfunk (national broadcaster) organised a competition for science fiction radio plays in order, it was explained, to encourage a new generation of German writers. Many more science fiction radio plays followed, mostly for Horst Krautkrämer at the SDR radio studio in Heidelberg, along with a succession of criminal dramas, mostly produced for WDR.

Evaluation Eva Maria Mudrich can be seen as a pioneer of the demanding science fiction genre, both through her application of socio-political themes and on account of the metaphysical and idealistic references that she incorporates. A number of commentators have been prompted to rank the quality of her work alongside that produced by Wolfgang Jeschke, Herbert W. Franke, Hermann Ebeling and Richard Hey.