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Kerck studied stage design at the [[Academy of Fine Arts Vienna]] with [[Erich Wonder]]. Her thesis was titled "Every Room is the Centre of the World". She worked as Wonder's assistant at the [[Zürich Opera House]], the [[Berlin State Opera]] and the [[Bavarian State Opera]]. She was an assistant to both {{ill|Peter Mussbach|de}} and [[Luc Bondy]] at [[La Scala]] in Milan, and worked as assistant director to [[Johannes Schaaf]] at the [[War Memorial Opera House|San Francisco War Memorial Opera]] and the [[Aalto Theatre]] in Essen. She studied music theatre direction at the [[Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe]]<ref name="Wiesbaden" /><ref name="Karlsruhe" /> with Andrea Raabe and {{ill|Stephan Mösch|de}}, and attended [[master class]]es with [[Peter Konwitschny]] and [[Tatjana Gürbaca]].<ref name="Wiesbaden" />

She directed and created sets for several performances at the [[Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden]], both plays such as [[Joshua Harmon (playwright)|Joshua Harmon]]'s ''Admissions'' and ''[[The Minutes (play)|The Minutes]]'' by Tracy Letts, and opera. She created Jörg Widmann's ''[[Babylon (opera)|Babylon]]'' for the opening performance of 2022 [[Internationale Maifestspiele Wiesbaden]]<ref name="Wiesbaden" /> and Dvořák's ''[[Rusalka (opera)|Rusalka]]'' in collaboration with soprano Olesya Golovneva.<ref name="Wiesbaden" /><ref name="Sternburg" /> Her work for the world premiere of [[Søren Nils Eichberg]]'s ''Oryx and Crake'' based on [[Oryx and Crake|the novel by Margaret Atwood]], was nominated for the [[International Opera Awards]].<ref name="Hochheim" /><ref name="Karlsruhe" /> She directed Puccini's ''[[Turandot]]'' in her sets for the 2024 Internationale Maifestspiele, conducted by [[Yoel Gamzou]].<ref name="Wiesbaden" /> When ShePuccini died in 1924, he had not yet set the happy ending of the libretto to music. Kerck decided to use none of the three available completions of Puccini's opera. thatHer wasending unfinishedused wheninstead hethe diedbeginning inof 1924a Requiem that Puccini had composed earlier.<ref name="Uske" /><ref name="Franke" /> <!--She identified the Prince{{who|date=May 2024}} with the composer. When he died in the end,{{who|date=May 2024}} the beginning of his Requiem{{what|date=May 2024}} was performed.<ref name="Uske" /--><ref name="Franke" />{{clarification needed|date=May 2024}}

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