Michael Kranz
Born: 1983-04-17 in Ravensburg, Germany
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2026
- Der Garmisch Krimi - Wolfsmord as Patrick Wams
2025
- Time We Lost as Lutz Schmauser
- Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting as Liebfried Cantor
2024
- The Signal as Gregor
- Die Augenzeugen as Sascha Wolf
- Raw Materials as Massenbach
2023
- Rehragout-Rendezvous as Simon Steckenbiller
- Morin as Konrad Dramm
2022
- The Young Chief Winnetou as Freddy
- Was Tun
2021
- 12 Tage Sommer as Henning / Reinhold / Corvin
- Hannes as Florian
2020
- Oktoberfest: Beer and Blood as Alfons Urban
2019
- The Goldfish as Kursleiter
- Das Leben meiner Tochter as Norbert Holler
- The Master Butcher as Fidelis’ Bruder
- Onkel Wanja as Telegin
- FrauMutterTier as Hannes
- Falter as Dave
2018
- I love Everything I Hate About You as Kai
- MyBorder's JOYFence ... (Script)
2017
- Hindafing as Pfarrer Kraus
- Ein Sommer im Allgäu
- Schildkröten Panzer as Narrator (voice)
2016
- King Laurin as Bauer Hans
- Siblings as Niels
- The Diary of Anne Frank as Jan Hartog
- Die Büffel sind los! as Landrat Häberle
- Mutter reicht's jetzt as Simon
2015
- Heidi as Mr. Kandidat
- Bettys Diagnose as Christoph Wendrup
- 13 Minutes as Franz Xaver Lechner
- Ein Sommer in Masuren as Zugschaffner
- Der Andi ist wieder da as Michael Schäfer
- Another Kind of Light
2014
- Murder by the Lake as Peter Wolfahrt
- Hirngespinster as Guido
- Fräulein Else as Paul
2013
- The Fifth Estate as Otto
- Hammer & Sichl as Polizist
- Local Heroes as Lazlo
- Finsterworld
- Wer hat Angst vorm weissen Mann? as Mr. Rupprecht
- Achtung Polizei! - Alarm um 11 Uhr 11 as Bossler
- Das Märchen von der Prinzessin, die unbedingt in einem Märchen vorkommen wollte as Michel
2012
- Rommel as Karl Daniel
- The Pursuit of Unhappiness as Moritz
- Sams im Glück as Packer 1
- A Family of Three
- Who's Afraid of the Big Black Wolf? as German Sergeant
2011
- War Horse as Junior German Officer
- Sommer der Gaukler as Alfons
2010
- Nanga Parbat as Hans Saler
- Die Hummel as Flo
- The Last 30 Years as Robert Ostermeier
2009
- Inglourious Basterds as Herrman #3
- Die Bergretter as Steffen Haflinger
- The White Ribbon as The Tutor
- Hanna und die Bankräuber as Polizist Kranz
- Zwei Zimmer, Balkon as Niklas
2008
- Räuber Kneißl as Gendarm Hildebrand
2004
- München 7 as Jörg
2003
- Kommissarin Lucas as Kai Benner
1990
- Pink Palace, Paradise Beach ... (Sound Mixer)
1970
- Scene of the Crime as Karsten