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
Rommel (2012)
as Karl Daniel
Nanga Parbat (2010)
as Hans Saler
Fräulein Else (2014)
as Paul
The Pursuit of Unhappiness (2012)
as Moritz
The Young Chief Winnetou (2022)
as Freddy
Der Garmisch Krimi - Wolfsmord (2026)
as Patrick Wams
Räuber Kneißl (2008)
as Gendarm Hildebrand
Hannes (2021)
as Florian
The Goldfish (2019)
as Kursleiter
Siblings (2016)
as Niels
Local Heroes (2013)
as Lazlo
Rehragout-Rendezvous (2023)
as Simon Steckenbiller
Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting (2025)
as Liebfried Cantor
The Master Butcher (2019)
as Fidelis’ Bruder
Ein Sommer in Masuren (2015)
as Zugschaffner
Time We Lost (2025)
as Lutz Schmauser
The Diary of Anne Frank (2016)
as Jan Hartog
I love Everything I Hate About You (2018)
as Kai
Finsterworld (2013)
Actor
Who's Afraid of the Big Black Wolf? (2012)
as German Sergeant
Mutter reicht's jetzt (2016)
as Simon
Onkel Wanja (2019)
as Telegin
The Last 30 Years (2010)
as Robert Ostermeier
Das Leben meiner Tochter (2019)
as Norbert Holler
Wer hat Angst vorm weissen Mann? (2013)
as Mr. Rupprecht
Ein Sommer im Allgäu (2017)
Actor
12 Tage Sommer (2021)
as Henning / Reinhold / Corvin
Achtung Polizei! - Alarm um 11 Uhr 11 (2013)
as Bossler
Sams im Glück (2012)
as Packer 1
King Laurin (2016)
as Bauer Hans
Die Büffel sind los! (2016)
as Landrat Häberle
Hanna und die Bankräuber (2009)
as Polizist Kranz
Was Tun (2022)
Actor
Der Andi ist wieder da (2015)
as Michael Schäfer
Raw Materials (2024)
as Massenbach
FrauMutterTier (2019)
as Hannes
Das Märchen von der Prinzessin, die unbedingt in einem Märchen vorkommen wollte (2013)
as Michel
Falter (2019)
as Dave
Another Kind of Light (2015)
Actor
Hirngespinster (2014)
as Guido
Die Hummel (2010)
as Flo
A Family of Three (2012)
Actor
Morin (2023)
as Konrad Dramm
Schildkröten Panzer (2017)
as Narrator (voice)
Sommer der Gaukler (2011)
as Alfons
Zwei Zimmer, Balkon (2009)
as Niklas