In 2000, she made a cameo appearance as a news anchor alongside Mark Keller in I Love You, Baby.

She made another cameo appearance as a newswoman in Auf Herz und Nieren (Put Through its Paces) alongside Steffen Wink.

In August 2009, she was seen in Mein erstes Leben – Mich hat es schon einmal gegeben (My First Life – I Have Existed Before).

At Punkt 12, she has been reporting at irregular intervals since 2019 on alternative healing methods in her own reportage format Wenn die Schulmedizin nicht mehr weiter weiß (When Conventional Medicine No Longer Knows What to Do).

Burkard is known for her struggle with her lisp, in particular of the letter S. In a 2007 newspaper interview, she stated that she was not bothered by her speech impediment.