Michael Kranz
Acting
1983-04-17 · 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
Der Garmisch Krimi - Wolfsmord
2026 · Movie
Time We Lost
2025 · Movie
Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting
2025 · Movie
Die Augenzeugen
2024 · Series
Raw Materials
2024 · Movie
The Signal
2024 · Series
Morin
2023 · Movie
Rehragout-Rendezvous
2023 · Movie
The Young Chief Winnetou
2022 · Movie
Was Tun
2022 · Movie
Hannes
2021 · Movie
12 Tage Sommer
2021 · Movie
Oktoberfest: Beer and Blood
2020 · Series
The Master Butcher
2019 · Movie
FrauMutterTier
2019 · Movie
The Goldfish
2019 · Movie
Onkel Wanja
2019 · Movie
Falter
2019 · Movie
Das Leben meiner Tochter
2019 · Movie
MyBorder's JOYFence
2018 · Movie
I love Everything I Hate About You
2018 · Movie
Ein Sommer im Allgäu
2017 · Movie
Schildkröten Panzer
2017 · Movie
Hindafing
2017 · Series
Mutter reicht's jetzt
2016 · Movie
Die Büffel sind los!
2016 · Movie
King Laurin
2016 · Movie
The Diary of Anne Frank
2016 · Movie
Siblings
2016 · Movie
Heidi
2015 · Movie
Another Kind of Light
2015 · Movie
Ein Sommer in Masuren
2015 · Movie
13 Minutes
2015 · Movie
Der Andi ist wieder da
2015 · Movie
Bettys Diagnose
2015 · Series
Murder by the Lake
2014 · Series
Hirngespinster
2014 · Movie
Fräulein Else
2014 · Movie
Hammer & Sichl
2013 · Series
Finsterworld
2013 · Movie
The Fifth Estate
2013 · Movie
Wer hat Angst vorm weissen Mann?
2013 · Movie
Das Märchen von der Prinzessin, die unbedingt in einem Märchen vorkommen wollte
2013 · Movie
Achtung Polizei! - Alarm um 11 Uhr 11
2013 · Movie
Local Heroes
2013 · Movie
The Pursuit of Unhappiness
2012 · Movie
Rommel
2012 · Movie
Sams im Glück
2012 · Movie
Who's Afraid of the Big Black Wolf?
2012 · Movie
A Family of Three
2012 · Movie
War Horse
2011 · Movie
Sommer der Gaukler
2011 · Movie
The Last 30 Years
2010 · Movie
Die Hummel
2010 · Movie
Nanga Parbat
2010 · Movie
Die Bergretter
2009 · Series
The White Ribbon
2009 · Movie
Inglourious Basterds
2009 · Movie
Hanna und die Bankräuber
2009 · Movie
Zwei Zimmer, Balkon
2009 · Movie
Räuber Kneißl
2008 · Movie
München 7
2004 · Series
Kommissarin Lucas
2003 · Series
Pink Palace, Paradise Beach
1990 · Movie
Scene of the Crime
1970 · Series