Michael Kranz
ActingSince 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
Inglourious Basterds
Herrman #3
The Fifth Estate
Otto
War Horse
Junior German Officer
13 Minutes
Franz Xaver Lechner
Heidi
Mr. Kandidat
The White Ribbon
The Tutor
Rommel
Karl Daniel
Time We Lost
Verkäufer
The Goldfish
Der Garmisch Krimi - Wolfsmord
Patrick Wams
Filmography — Acting
Inglourious Basterds
Herrman #3
The Fifth Estate
Otto
War Horse
Junior German Officer
13 Minutes
Franz Xaver Lechner
Heidi
Mr. Kandidat
The White Ribbon
The Tutor
Rommel
Karl Daniel
Time We Lost
Verkäufer
The Goldfish
Der Garmisch Krimi - Wolfsmord
Patrick Wams
Nanga Parbat
Hans Saler
Sams im Glück
Packer 1
The Pursuit of Unhappiness
Moritz
Hannes
Florian
The Diary of Anne Frank
Jan Hartog
Rehragout-Rendezvous
Simon Steckenbiller
Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting
Liebfried Cantor
The Young Chief Winnetou
Freddy
Finsterworld
Achtung Polizei! - Alarm um 11 Uhr 11
Bossler
Räuber Kneißl
Gendarm Hildebrand
A Family of Three
Das Leben meiner Tochter
Norbert Holler
Mutter reicht's jetzt
Simon
FrauMutterTier
Hannes
The Master Butcher
Fidelis’ Bruder
Another Kind of Light
Onkel Wanja
Telegin
Raw Materials
Massenbach
Ein Sommer in Masuren
Zugschaffner
Ein Sommer im Allgäu
Hanna und die Bankräuber
Polizist Kranz
Die Büffel sind los!
Landrat Häberle
Was Tun
Hirngespinster
Guido
Der Andi ist wieder da
Michael Schäfer
Das Märchen von der Prinzessin, die unbedingt in einem Märchen vorkommen wollte
Michel
The Last 30 Years
Robert Ostermeier
Morin
Konrad Dramm
Sommer der Gaukler
Alfons
Falter
Dave
King Laurin
Bauer Hans
Wer hat Angst vorm weissen Mann?
Mr. Rupprecht
Who's Afraid of the Big Black Wolf?
German Sergeant
Zwei Zimmer, Balkon
Niklas
12 Tage Sommer
Henning / Reinhold / Corvin
Schildkröten Panzer
Narrator (voice)
Die Hummel
Flo
Siblings
Niels
Local Heroes
Lazlo
Fräulein Else
Paul
I love Everything I Hate About You
Kai
