Acting
Michael Kranz
DE, EN, SL cinema · 54 credits
Born
17 April 1983 (age 43)
Birthplace
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.
Known for
Filmography
Der Garmisch Krimi - Wolfsmord
as Patrick Wams
Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting
as Liebfried Cantor
Time We Lost
as Lutz Schmauser
Raw Materials
as Massenbach
Rehragout-Rendezvous
as Simon Steckenbiller
Morin
as Konrad Dramm
Was Tun
Actor, Writer, Producer, Camera Operator, Director
The Young Chief Winnetou
as Freddy
12 Tage Sommer
as Henning / Reinhold / Corvin
Hannes
as Florian
Falter
as Dave
The Master Butcher
as Fidelis’ Bruder
Onkel Wanja
as Telegin
Das Leben meiner Tochter
as Norbert Holler
The Goldfish
as Kursleiter
FrauMutterTier
as Hannes
MyBorder's JOYFence
Director, Script
Schildkröten Panzer
as Narrator (voice)
Die Büffel sind los!
as Landrat Häberle
Siblings
as Niels
The Diary of Anne Frank
as Jan Hartog
King Laurin
as Bauer Hans
13 Minutes
as Franz Xaver Lechner
Der Andi ist wieder da
2015
Der Andi ist wieder da
as Michael Schäfer
Ein Sommer in Masuren
as Zugschaffner
Heidi
as Mr. Kandidat
Hirngespinster
as Guido
Fräulein Else
as Paul
Das Märchen von der Prinzessin, die unbedingt in einem Märchen vorkommen wollte
as Michel
Wer hat Angst vorm weissen Mann?
as Mr. Rupprecht
The Fifth Estate
as Otto
Local Heroes
as Lazlo
Sams im Glück
as Packer 1
Who's Afraid of the Big Black Wolf?
as German Sergeant
Rommel
as Karl Daniel
War Horse
as Junior German Officer
Sommer der Gaukler
as Alfons
The Last 30 Years
as Robert Ostermeier
Nanga Parbat
as Hans Saler
Inglourious Basterds
as Herrman #3
The White Ribbon
as The Tutor
Hanna und die Bankräuber
as Polizist Kranz
Räuber Kneißl
as Gendarm Hildebrand
Pink Palace, Paradise Beach
Sound Mixer