Evi Kurz was born in Fürth, where she also graduated from high school. After two state exams for teaching at secondary schools, she worked full-time as a news anchor and television journalist at the channel Bayerisches Fernsehen, where she already had presented the new program “Frankenschau” between her exams. This was followed by programs from the Studio Freimann, such as “Abendschau” or “Jetzt red i” and, in 1979, the first edition of the new news program “Rundschau”. For many years, Evi Kurz was part of the permanent team of the “Rundschau” newscasters. For the Erlangen-based perimed publishing house, she hosted “puls”, a program for general practitioners and internists in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, for many years
In 2003 Evi Kurz founded her film production company TLF-Timelinefilm GmbH and produced “The Kissinger Saga”. The movie about Henry Kissinger and his one year younger brother Walter was also very successful in the US cinemas. “The Kissinger Saga” was also published as a book in German and English. Other major international film productions followed, such as “The Bridge Builders – Henry Kissinger, Fritz Stern and Lord George Weidenfeld. Jewish Emigrants and Reunification” and film biographies about the entrepreneur Karl Diehl. All films were broadcasted on ARD.
Since 2005, Evi Kurz has been director of the Ludwig-Erhard-Initiativkreis Fürth e.V. and since 2013, chairwoman of the Foundation Ludwig-Erhard-Haus. Under Evi Kurz’s leadership, the Ludwig Erhard Zentrum (LEZ), a center for documentation, exhibition, encounter, and research for Ludwig Erhard and his concept of the social market economy, was established in Fürth. The 18-million Euro project was inaugurated in 2018 by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Minister President of Bavaria Markus Söder. In June 2022, the center will be completed by a research institute: A cooperation of the Ludwig Erhard Haus Foundation with FAU and the Munich-based ifo Institute. The ifo Institute establishes its own branch in the LEZ in Fürth.
Evi Kurz was awarded the Golden Citizens’ Medal of the City of Fürth in 2010, the Finance Medal of the Bavarian State Ministry of Finance in 2015, and the Bavarian Order of Merit in 2019. In 2023, she became honorary citizen of FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg.