Michael Kranz
Biography
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.
Personal Details
Movies (43)
Time We Lost
as Verkäufer
2025
Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting
as Liebfried Cantor
2025
Raw Materials
as Massenbach
2024
Morin
as Konrad Dramm
2023
Rehragout-Rendezvous
as Simon Steckenbiller
2023
The Young Chief Winnetou
as Freddy
2022
Was Tun
2022
Hannes
as Florian
2021
12 Tage Sommer
as Henning / Reinhold / Corvin
2021
The Master Butcher
as Fidelis’ Bruder
2019
FrauMutterTier
2019
The Goldfish
2019
Onkel Wanja
as Telegin
2019
Falter
as Dave
2019
Das Leben meiner Tochter
as Norbert Holler
2019
MyBorder's JOYFence
Script (Crew)
2018
I love Everything I Hate About You
as Kai
2018
Ein Sommer im Allgäu
2017
Schildkröten Panzer
as Narrator (voice)
2017
Mutter reicht's jetzt
as Simon
2016
Die Büffel sind los!
as Landrat Häberle
2016
King Laurin
as Bauer Hans
2016
The Diary of Anne Frank
as Jan Hartog
2016
Siblings
as Niels
2016
Heidi
as Mr. Kandidat
2015
Another Kind of Light
2015
Ein Sommer in Masuren
as Zugschaffner
2015
13 Minutes
as Franz Xaver Lechner
2015
Der Andi ist wieder da
as Michael Schäfer
2015
Hirngespinster
as Guido
2014
Fräulein Else
as Paul
2014
Finsterworld
2013
The Fifth Estate
as Otto
2013
Wer hat Angst vorm weissen Mann?
as Mr. Rupprecht
2013
Das Märchen von der Prinzessin, die unbedingt in einem Märchen vorkommen wollte
as Michel
2013
Achtung Polizei! - Alarm um 11 Uhr 11
as Bossler
2013
Local Heroes
as Lazlo
2013
The Pursuit of Unhappiness
as Moritz
2012
Rommel
as Karl Daniel
2012
Sams im Glück
as Packer 1
2012
Who's Afraid of the Big Black Wolf?
as German Sergeant
2012
A Family of Three
2012
War Horse
as Junior German Officer
2011
