Michael Kranz
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
- 2024 · Raw Materials as Massenbach
- 2024 · The Signal as Gregor
- 2023 · Morin as Konrad Dramm
- 2023 · Rehragout-Rendezvous as Simon Steckenbiller
- 2022 · The Young Chief Winnetou as Freddy
- 2022 · Was Tun as
- 2021 · Hannes as Florian
- 2021 · 12 Tage Sommer as Henning / Reinhold / Corvin
- 2020 · Oktoberfest: Beer and Blood as Alfons Urban
- 2019 · The Master Butcher as Fidelis’ Bruder
- 2019 · The Goldfish as
- 2019 · Onkel Wanja as Telegin
- 2019 · Falter as Dave
- 2019 · Das Leben meiner Tochter as Norbert Holler
- 2018 · I love Everything I Hate About You as Kai
- 2017 · Ein Sommer im Allgäu as
- 2017 · Schildkröten Panzer as Narrator (voice)
- 2017 · Hindafing as Pfarrer Kraus
- 2016 · 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
- 2015 · Heidi as Mr. Kandidat
- 2015 · Another Kind of Light as
- 2015 · Ein Sommer in Masuren as Zugschaffner
- 2015 · 13 Minutes as Franz Xaver Lechner
- 2015 · Der Andi ist wieder da as Michael Schäfer
- 2015 · Bettys Diagnose as Christoph Wendrup
- 2014 · Murder by the Lake as Peter Wolfahrt
- 2014 · Hirngespinster as Guido
- 2014 · Fräulein Else as Paul
- 2013 · Hammer & Sichl as Polizist
- 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 Court Jester
- 2013 · Achtung Polizei! - Alarm um 11 Uhr 11 as Bossler
- 2012 · 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 as
- 2011 · War Horse as Junior German Officer
- 2011 · Sommer der Gaukler as Alfons
- 2010 · The Last 30 Years as Robert Ostermeier
- 2010 · Die Hummel as Flo
- 2010 · Nanga Parbat as Hans Saler
- 2009 · Alpine Rescue as Steffen Haflinger
- 2009 · The White Ribbon as The Tutor
- 2009 · Inglourious Basterds as Herrman #3
- 2009 · Hanna und die Bankräuber as Polizist Kranz
- 2009 · Zwei Zimmer, Balkon as Niklas
- 2008 · Räuber Kneißl as Gendarm Hildebrand
- 2004 · München 7 as Jörg
- 2003 · Kommissarin Lucas as Kai Benner
- 1970 · Scene of the Crime as Karsten