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Kerck studied stage design at the [[Academy of Fine Arts Vienna]] with [[Erich Wonder]].<ref name="Schnakenberg" /><ref name="Yefimenko" /> 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]], among others.<ref name="Yefimenko" /><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.<ref name="Schnakenberg" /> She recreated the scenic design by Wonder for ''[[Salome (opera)|Salome]]'' by Richard Strauss, directed by [[Luc Bondy]], for a production at the [[Volksoper]] in Vienna in 2023 that had first been presented at the [[Salzburg Festival]], later also at [[La Scala]] in Milan.<ref name="Volksoper" />

Kerck studied music theatre direction at the [[Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe]]<ref name="Schnakenberg" /><ref name="Karlsruhe" /> with Andrea Raabe and {{ill|Stephan Mösch|de}}, and attended [[master class]]es with [[Peter Konwitschny]] and [[Tatjana Gürbaca]].<ref name="Yefimenko" /><ref name="Wiesbaden" /> She 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="Yefimenko" /><ref name="Wiesbaden" /> She directed Verdi's ''[[Aida]]'' at the Tiroler Festspiele in [[Erl]] in 2019.<ref name="Schnakenberg" />

She directed and created the scene for several performances at the [[Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden]], both plays and operas. She has worked regularly with costume designer Andrea Schmidt-Futterer<ref name="Yefimenko" /><ref name="Schmidt-Futterer" /> and video artist Astrid Steiner.<ref name="Yefimenko" /> She staged in Wiesbaden [[Joshua Harmon (playwright)|Joshua Harmon]]'s ''Admissions'' in 2021, the German premiere of the play,<ref name="Schnakenberg" /><ref name="Fischer" /> and ''[[The Minutes (play)|The Minutes]]'' by Tracy Letts.<ref name="Hladek" /> She created Jörg Widmann's opera ''[[Babylon (opera)|Babylon]]'' for the opening performance of 2022 [[Internationale Maifestspiele Wiesbaden]], acknowledged by the press<ref name="Yefimenko" /><ref name="Uske 2022" /> and the composer.<ref name="Yefimenko" /> She created Dvořák's ''[[Rusalka (opera)|Rusalka]]'' in collaboration with soprano Olesya Golovneva.<ref name="Sternburg" />

Kerck staged the world premiere of [[Søren Nils Eichberg]]'s opera ''Oryx and Crake'', based on [[Oryx and Crake|the novel by Margaret Atwood]], on 18 February 2023;<ref name="Yefimenko" /> it was nominated for the 2023 [[International Opera Awards]].<ref name="operawire" /><ref name="Hochheim" /><ref name="Karlsruhe" /> She directed and also created the scene for Puccini's ''[[Turandot]]'' for the 2024 Internationale Maifestspiele, conducted by [[Yoel Gamzou]].<ref name="Uske" /> 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 completions of Puccini's opera by others.<ref name="Zibulski preview" /> She framed the exotic story around Turandot by scenes in Puccini's library, where he composes in the beginning at a grand piano, served by a housekeeper. Dressed in a white suit throughout the performance, he is identified with the Prince in the story, and the housekeeper with Líu who is active on stage for most of the time. In the end, when Liú has taken her life and the music by Puccini ends, the Puccini on stage receives a kiss of death from Turandot and dies on the piano bench, to music from the beginning of a Requiem that he had composed in 1905.<ref name="Uske" /><ref name="Franke" /><ref name="Zibulski" />