Michael Kranz
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Since his father was the senior physician of a ward in the Bad Schussenried Centre for Psychiatry, he grew up with his three siblings in a service flat on the former hospital grounds. He attended the Studienkolleg St.Johann Blönried and graduated from there in 2003. At the age of 17, he lived for one year on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where he graduated from Red Cloud High School in 2001. In 2008 he completed his acting education at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich. He studied at the Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München and graduated there in March 2018 with a diploma in documentary film directing and television journalism. Internationally, Kranz was seen in the drama The White Ribbon (2009) by Michael Haneke, in Quentin Tarantino's war film Inglourious Basterds and in Steven Spielberg's Bridge of Spies. He became known to a wider television audience with the series Hindafing, in which he plays the city priest Kraus. The series was awarded the Austrian film prize Romy in 2018. His spot myBorder's joyFence was awarded the First Steps Award and the Porsche Award in 2018.
Known for
Credits
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
as Herrman #3
Heidi (2015)
as Mr. Kandidat
War Horse (2011)
as Junior German Officer
The Fifth Estate (2013)
as Otto
The White Ribbon (2009)
as The Tutor
13 Minutes (2015)
as Franz Xaver Lechner
Räuber Kneißl (2008)
as Gendarm Hildebrand
Nanga Parbat (2010)
as Hans Saler
Rommel (2012)
as Karl Daniel
Time We Lost (2025)
as Lutz Schmauser
Der Garmisch Krimi - Wolfsmord (2026)
as Patrick Wams
Fräulein Else (2014)
as Paul
The Goldfish (2019)
as Kursleiter
The Diary of Anne Frank (2016)
as Jan Hartog
Finsterworld (2013)
Actor
Siblings (2016)
as Niels
Hannes (2021)
as Florian
Local Heroes (2013)
as Lazlo
The Young Chief Winnetou (2022)
as Freddy
Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting (2025)
as Liebfried Cantor
The Pursuit of Unhappiness (2012)
as Moritz
Rehragout-Rendezvous (2023)
as Simon Steckenbiller
King Laurin (2016)
as Bauer Hans
Ein Sommer in Masuren (2015)
as Zugschaffner
Raw Materials (2024)
as Massenbach
Sams im Glück (2012)
as Packer 1
12 Tage Sommer (2021)
as Henning / Reinhold / Corvin
The Master Butcher (2019)
as Fidelis’ Bruder
I love Everything I Hate About You (2018)
as Kai
The Last 30 Years (2010)
as Robert Ostermeier
A Family of Three (2012)
Actor
Another Kind of Light (2015)
Actor
Onkel Wanja (2019)
as Telegin
Ein Sommer im Allgäu (2017)
Actor
Morin (2023)
as Konrad Dramm
Das Leben meiner Tochter (2019)
as Norbert Holler
Die Hummel (2010)
as Flo
Hirngespinster (2014)
as Guido
Der Andi ist wieder da (2015)
as Michael Schäfer
Was Tun (2022)
Actor
FrauMutterTier (2019)
as Hannes
Hanna und die Bankräuber (2009)
as Polizist Kranz
Das Märchen von der Prinzessin, die unbedingt in einem Märchen vorkommen wollte (2013)
as Michel
Schildkröten Panzer (2017)
as Narrator (voice)
Falter (2019)
as Dave
Achtung Polizei! - Alarm um 11 Uhr 11 (2013)
as Bossler
Sommer der Gaukler (2011)
as Alfons
Die Büffel sind los! (2016)
as Landrat Häberle
Wer hat Angst vorm weissen Mann? (2013)
as Mr. Rupprecht
Mutter reicht's jetzt (2016)
as Simon
Who's Afraid of the Big Black Wolf? (2012)
as German Sergeant
Zwei Zimmer, Balkon (2009)
as Niklas