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.
Known For
Simon Steckenbiller
Rehragout-Rendezvous
Henning / Reinhold / Corvin
12 Tage Sommer
Dave
Falter
Ein Sommer im Allgäu
Was Tun
Sturköpfe
Massenbach
Rohbau
Florian
Hannes
Niklas
Zwei Zimmer, Balkon
Konrad Dramm
Morin
Fidelis’ Bruder
Der Club der singenden Metzger
Junior German Officer
War Horse
Packer 1
Sams im Glück
Michel
Das Märchen von der Prinzessin, die unbedingt in einem Märchen vorkommen wollte
Bossler
Achtung Polizei! - Alarm um 11 Uhr 11
Herrman #3
Inglourious Basterds
Guido
Hirngespinster
Gendarm Hildebrand
Räuber Kneißl
Franz Xaver Lechner
Elser
The Tutor
Das weiße Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte
Alfons
Sommer der Gaukler
Flo
Die Hummel
Mr. Rupprecht
Wer hat Angst vorm weissen Mann?
Landrat Häberle
Die Büffel sind los!
Simon
Mutter reicht's jetzt
Otto
The Fifth Estate
Robert Ostermeier
Die letzten 30 Jahre
Niels
Geschwister
Michael Schäfer
Der Andi ist wieder da
Polizist Kranz
Hanna und die Bankräuber
Zugschaffner
Ein Sommer in Masuren
Mr. Kandidat
Heidi
Jan Hartog
Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank
Tage die bleiben
Bauer Hans
König Laurin
Moritz
Anleitung zum Unglücklichsein
German Sergeant
Kdo se boji črnega moža?
Telegin
Onkel Wanja
Karl Daniel
Rommel
Hans Saler
Nanga Parbat
Norbert Holler
Das Leben meiner Tochter
Kai
Ich liebe alles, was ich an dir hasse
Die Goldfische
Paul
Fräulein Else
Freddy
Der junge Häuptling Winnetou
Narrator (voice)
Schildkröten Panzer
Liebfried Cantor
Leibniz – Chronik eines verschollenen Bildes
Finsterworld
Verkäufer
Dann passiert das Leben
FrauMutterTier
Patrick Wams
An der Grenze - Der Wolf
Lazlo
Local Heroes
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
52
Gender
Male
Birthday
1983-04-17
Place of Birth
Ravensburg, Germany
Also Known As