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== Life and career ==

Kerck studied stage design at the [[Academy of Fine Arts Vienna]]<ref name="Schnakenberg" /> with [[Erich Wonder]].<ref name="Schnakenberg" /> 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.<ref name="Wiesbaden" /> She studied music theatre direction at the [[Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe]]<ref name="Schnakenberg" /> with Andrea Raabe and {{ill|Stephan Mösch|de}}, and attended [[master class]]es with [[Peter Konwitschny]] and [[Tatjana Gürbaca]].<ref name="Wiesbaden" /> She made scenic designs for the [[Schauspielhaus Wien]], the [[Latvian National Opera]], the [[Théâtre du Châtelet]] in Paris and the Teatro Zarzuela in Madrid. She directed Verdi's ''[[Aida]]'' at the Tiroler Festspielen in [[Erl]] in 2019.<ref name="Schnakenberg" />

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 Puccini 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. Her ending used instead the beginning of a 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}} -->