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
- Hannes as Florian
- 12 Tage Sommer as Henning / Reinhold / Corvin
2020
- Oktoberfest: Beer and Blood as Alfons Urban
2019
- The Goldfish
- Onkel Wanja as Telegin
- The Master Butcher as Fidelis’ Bruder
- Das Leben meiner Tochter as Norbert Holler
- FrauMutterTier as Hannes
- Falter as Dave
2018
- I love Everything I Hate About You as Kai
- MyBorder's JOYFence ... (Director)
2017
- Hindafing as Pfarrer Kraus
- Ein Sommer im Allgäu
- Schildkröten Panzer as Narrator (voice)
2016
- The Diary of Anne Frank as Jan Hartog
- Siblings as Niels
- Die Büffel sind los! as Landrat Häberle
- King Laurin as Bauer Hans
- 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
- Another Kind of Light
- Der Andi ist wieder da as Michael Schäfer
2014
- Murder by the Lake as Peter Wolfahrt
- Fräulein Else as Paul
- Hirngespinster as Guido
2013
- Hammer & Sichl as Polizist
- The Fifth Estate as Otto
- Finsterworld
- Achtung Polizei! - Alarm um 11 Uhr 11 as Bossler
- Local Heroes as Lazlo
- Das Märchen von der Prinzessin, die unbedingt in einem Märchen vorkommen wollte as Michel
- Wer hat Angst vorm weissen Mann? as Mr. Rupprecht
2012
- Rommel as Karl Daniel
- Sams im Glück as Packer 1
- The Pursuit of Unhappiness as Moritz
- 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