Michael Kranz
Acting · Crew · Sound
Born April 17, 1983, Ravensburg, Germany
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
- 2026Der Garmisch Krimi - Wolfsmord — Patrick Wams
- 2025Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting — Liebfried Cantor
- 2025Time We Lost — Lutz Schmauser
- Die Augenzeugen — Sascha Wolf
- 2024Raw Materials — Massenbach
- The Signal — Gregor
- 2023Morin — Konrad Dramm
- 2023Rehragout-Rendezvous — Simon Steckenbiller
- 2022The Young Chief Winnetou — Freddy
- 2022Was Tun — Writer, Camera Operator, Producer, Director
- 202112 Tage Sommer — Henning / Reinhold / Corvin
- 2021Hannes — Florian
- Oktoberfest: Beer and Blood — Alfons Urban
- 2019Das Leben meiner Tochter — Norbert Holler
- 2019Falter — Dave
- 2019FrauMutterTier — Hannes
- 2019Onkel Wanja — Telegin
- 2019The Goldfish — Kursleiter
- 2019The Master Butcher — Fidelis’ Bruder
- 2018I love Everything I Hate About You — Kai
- 2018MyBorder's JOYFence — Script, Director
- 2017Ein Sommer im Allgäu
- Hindafing — Pfarrer Kraus
- 2017Schildkröten Panzer — Narrator (voice)
- 2016Die Büffel sind los! — Landrat Häberle
- 2016King Laurin — Bauer Hans
- 2016Mutter reicht's jetzt — Simon
- 2016Siblings — Niels
- 2016The Diary of Anne Frank — Jan Hartog
- 201513 Minutes — Franz Xaver Lechner
- 2015Another Kind of Light
- Bettys Diagnose — Christoph Wendrup
- 2015Der Andi ist wieder da — Michael Schäfer
- 2015Ein Sommer in Masuren — Zugschaffner
- 2015Heidi — Mr. Kandidat
- 2014Fräulein Else — Paul
- 2014Hirngespinster — Guido
- Murder by the Lake — Peter Wolfahrt
- 2013Achtung Polizei! - Alarm um 11 Uhr 11 — Bossler
- 2013Das Märchen von der Prinzessin, die unbedingt in einem Märchen vorkommen wollte — Michel
- 2013Finsterworld
- Hammer & Sichl — Polizist
- 2013Local Heroes — Lazlo
- 2013The Fifth Estate — Otto
- 2013Wer hat Angst vorm weissen Mann? — Mr. Rupprecht
- 2012A Family of Three
- 2012Rommel — Karl Daniel
- 2012Sams im Glück — Packer 1
- 2012The Pursuit of Unhappiness — Moritz
- 2012Who's Afraid of the Big Black Wolf? — German Sergeant
- 2011Sommer der Gaukler — Alfons
- 2011War Horse — Junior German Officer
- 2010Die Hummel — Flo
- 2010Nanga Parbat — Hans Saler
- 2010The Last 30 Years — Robert Ostermeier
- Die Bergretter — Steffen Haflinger, Mathias Baumgartner
- 2009Hanna und die Bankräuber — Polizist Kranz
- 2009Inglourious Basterds — Herrman #3
- 2009The White Ribbon — The Tutor
- 2009Zwei Zimmer, Balkon — Niklas
- 2008Räuber Kneißl — Gendarm Hildebrand
- München 7 — Jörg
- Kommissarin Lucas — Kai Benner
- 1990Pink Palace, Paradise Beach — Sound Mixer
- Scene of the Crime — Karsten